(Eat. From the goods of the testator, if he has an p. and, if not., fmm those o/ the executor.) A judgment rendered where an executor falsely pleads any matter […]
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DE BONIS TESTATORIS, or INTES- TATI
Of the goods of the testator, or intestate. A term applied to a judgment awarding execution against the property of a testator or intestate, as distinguished from the individual property […]
DE BONO ET MALO
“For good and ill.” The Latin form of the law French phrase “Dc hicn ct de mat.” In ancient criminal pleading, this was the expression with which the prisoner put […]
DE BONO GESTU
For good behavior ; for good abearance.
DE CALCETO REPARANDO
Writ for repairing a causeway. An old writ by which the sheriff was commanded to distrain the Inhabitants of a place to repair and maintain a causeway, etc. Reg. Orig. […]
DE CAPITALIBUS DOMINIS FEODI
Of the chief lords of the fee
DE CAPITE MINUTIS
Of those who have lost their status, or civil condition. Dig. 4, 5. The name of a title in the Pandects. See CAPITIS DEMINUTIO.
DE CARTIS REDDENDIS
(For restoring charters.) A writ to secure the delivery of charters or deeds; a writ of detinue . Reg. Orig. 1596.
DE CATALLIS REDDENDIS
(For restoring chattels.) A writ to secure the return specifically of chattels detained from the owner. Cowell.
DE CAUTIONE ADMITTENDA
Writ, to take caution or security. A writ which anciently lay against a bishop who held an excommunicated person in prison for his contempt, notwithstanding he had offered sufficient security […]
DE CERTIFICANDO
A writ requiring a thing to be certified. A kind of certiorari. Reg. Orig. 151, 152.
DE CERTIORANDO
A writ for certifying. A writ directed to the sheriff, requiring him to certify to a particular fact Reg. Orig. 24.
DE CHAMPERTIA
Writ of champerty. A writ directed to the justices of the bench, commanding the enforcement of the statute of cliampcrtors. Reg. Orig. 183; Fitzh. Nat.Brev. 172.
DE CHAR ET DE SANK
L. Fr. Of flesh and blood. Affaire recliat de char et dc sank. Words used in claiming a person to be a villein, in the time of Edward II. Y. […]
DE CHIMINO
A writ for the enforcement of a right of way . Reg. Orig. 155.
DE CIAUSO FRACTO
Of close broken ; of breach of close . See CLAUSUM FREOIT.
DE CIBARIIS TJTENDIS
Of victuals to be used. The title of a sumptuary statute passed 10 Edw. III. St. 3, to restrain the expense of entertainments. Barring. Ob. St. 240.
DE CiETERO
Henceforth.
DE CLAMEA ADMITTENDA IN ITINERE PER ATTORNATUM
See CI.AMEA ADMITTENDA, etc.
DE CLARO DIE
By daylight. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 76,
DE CLERICO ADMITTENDO
See ADMITTENDO CLERICO .
DE CLERICO CAPTO PER STATU- TTJM MERCATORIUM DELIBERANDO
Writ for delivering a clerk arrested on a statute merchant. A writ for the delivery of a clerk out of prison, who had been taken and imprisoned upon the breach […]
DE CLERICO CONVICTO DELIB- ERANDO
See CLERICO CONVICTO, etc.
DE CLERICO INFRA SACROS OR- DINES CONSTITUTO NON ELIGENDO IN OFFICIUM
See CLERICO INFRA SACROS, etc.
DE CLERO
Concerning the clergy. The title of the statute 25 Edw. III. St 3; containing a variety of provisions on the subject of presentations, indictments of spiritual persons, and the like. […]
