A writ of deceit which lay against one who acted in the name of another whereby the latter was damnified and deceived. Reg. Orig. 112.
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DE DEONERANDA PRO RATA FOE- TIONIS
A writ that lay where one was distrained for rent that ought to be paid by others proportionably with him. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 234; Termes de la Ley .
DE DIE IN DIEM
rom day to day. Bract fol. 2056.
DE DIVERSIS REGULIS JURIS AN- TIQUI
Of divers rules of the ancient law. A celebrated title of the Digests, and the last in that collection. It consists of two hundred and eleven rules or maxims. Dig. […]
DE DOLO MALO
Of or founded upon fraud. Dig. 4, 3. See ACTIO DF. DOLO MALO.
DE DOMO REPARANDA
A writ which lay for one tenant in common to compel his co-tenant to contribute towards the repair of the common property .
DE DONIS
Concerning gifts, (or more fully, de donis coiulitionalibus, concerning conditional gifts.) The name of a celebrated English statute, passed in the thirteenth year of Edw. I., and constituting the first […]
DE DOTE ASSIGNANDA
Writ for assigning dower. A writ which lay for the widow of a tenant in capite, commanding the king’s escheater to cause her dower to be assigned to her. Reg. […]
DE DOTE UNDE NIHIL HABET
A writ of dower which lay for a widow where no part of her dower had been assigned to her. It is now much disused; but a form closely resembling […]
DE EJECTIONE CUSTODL
A writ which lay for a guardian who had been forcibly ejected from his wardship. Reg. Orig. 102.
DE EJECTIONE FIRM2E
A writ which lay at the suit of the tenant for years against the lessor, reversioner , remainderman , or stranger who had himself deprived the tenant of the occupation […]
DE ESCAMBIO MONET
A writ of exchange of money. An ancient writ to authorize a merchant to make a bill of exchange , (literas eambitorias facere.) Reg. Orig. 194.
DE ESCJETA
Writ of escheat. A writ which a lord had, where his tenant died without heir, to recover the laud. Reg. Orig. 1046; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 143, 144, E.
DE ESSE IN PEREGRINATIONE
Of being on a journey. A species of essoin. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 119.
DE ESSENDO QUIETUM DE TOLO- NIO
A writ which lay for those who were by privilege free from the payment of toll, on their being molested therein. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 220; Reg. Orig. 25S6.
DE ESSONIO DE MALO LECTI
A writ which issued upon an essoin of malum lecti being cast, to examine whether the party was in fact sick or not. Reg. Orig. 86.
DE ESTOVERIIS HABENDIS
Writ for having estovers. A writ which lay for a wife divorced
DE ESTREPAMENTO
A writ which lay to prevent or stay waste by a tenant, during the pendency of a suit against hiin to recover the lands. Reg. Orig. 7Gb. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. […]
DE EU ET TRENE
L. Fr. Of water and whip of three cords. A term applied to a neife, that is, a bond woman or female villein, as employed in servile work, and subject […]
DE EVE ET DE TREVE
A law French phrase, equivalent to the Latin de avo et de tritavo, descriptive of the ancestral rights of lords in their villeins. Literally, “from grandfather and from great-grandfather’s treat-granilfather.” […]
DE EXCOMMUNICATO CAPIENDO
A writ commanding the sheriff to arrest one who was excommunicated, and imprison him rill he should become reconciled to the iliurch. 3 Bl. Comm. 102. Smith v. Nelson, IS […]
DE EXCOMMUNICATO DELIBERANDO
A writ to deliver an excommunicated person, who has made satisfaction to the ehuicb, from prison. 3 Bl. Comm. 102.
DE EXCOMMUNICATO RECAPIENDO
Writ for retaking an excommunicated person, where he had been liberated from prison without making satisfaction to the church, or giving security for that purpose. Reg. Orig. G7.
DE EXCUSATIONIBUS
“Concerning excuses.” This is the title of book 27 of the Pandects, (in the Corpus Juris Civilis .) It treats of the circumstances which excuse one from filling the office […]
DE EXECUTIONE FACIENDA IN WITIIERNAMIUM
Writ for making execution in withernam. Reg. Orig. 826. A species of capias in withernam.
