Of right; legitimate ; lawful ; by right and just title. In this sense it is the contrary of de facto, (which see.) It may also be contrasted with de […]
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DE JURE CORPORATION
An incorporated company that law recongnizes.
DE JURE DIRECTOR
A party that is appointed as director with the firm’s articles. They have consent to hold office and have full rights. They are responsible for the acts they do.
DE JURE GOVERNMENT
the term that applies to the legally constituted government that has been placed in power in accordance with the laws of the land.
DE LA PLOTS BEALE, or BELLE
L. Fr. Of the most fair. A term applied to a species of dower, which was assigned out of the fairest of the husband’s tenements. Litt.
DE LATERE
From the side; on the side; collaterally; of collaterals. Cod. 5, 5, 6.
DE LEGATIS ET FIDEI COMMISSIS
Of legacies and trusts. The name of a title of the Pandects. Dig. 30.
DE LEPROSO AMOVENDO
Writ for removing a leper. A writ to remove a leper who thrust himself into the company of his neighbors In any parish, in public or private places, to their […]
DE LIBERA FALDA
Writ of free fold. A species of quod permittat . Reg. Orig. 155.
DE LIBERA PISCARIA
Writ of free fishery. A species of quod pennittat. Reg. Orig. 155.
DE LIBERO PASSAGIO
Writ of free passage . A species of quod permittat . Reg. Orig. 155.
DE LIBERT ATIBUS ALLOC ANDIS
A writ of various forms, to enable a citizen to recover the liberties to which he was entitled Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 229; Reg. Orig. 202.
DE LIBERTATE PROBANDA
Writ for proving liberty. A writ which lay for such as, being demanded for villeins or niefs, offered to prove themselves free. Reg. Orig. 876; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 77, F.
DE LICENTIA TRANSFRETANDI
Writ of permission to cross the sea. An old writ directed to the wardens of the port of Dover, or other seaport in England, commanding them to permit the persons […]
DE LUNATICO INQUIRENDO
The name of a writ directed to the sheriff, directing him to Inquire by good and lawful men whether the party charged is a lunatic or not.
DE MAGNA ASSISA ELIGENDA
A writ by which the grand assise was chosen and summoned. Reg. Orig. 8; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 4.
DE MAJOR! ET MINOR! NON VARIANT JURA
Concerning greater and less laws do not vary. 2 Vern. 552.
DE MALO
Of Illness. This phrase was frequently used to designate several species of essoin, (q. v.,) such as dc malo lecti, of illness in bed; de malo vcnicndi. of illness (or […]
DE MANUCAPTIONE
Writ of manucaption, or mainprise. A writ which lay for one who, being taken and imprisoned on a charge of felony, had offered bail, which had been refused; requiring the […]
DE MANUTENENDO
Writ of maintenance. A writ which lay against a person for the offense of maintenance. Reg. Orig. 189, 1826.
DE MEDIETATE LINGUiE
Of the half tongue; half of one tongue and half of another. This phrase describes that species of jury which, at common law , was allowed in both civil and […]
DE MEDIO
A writ in the nature of a writ of right , which lay where upon a subinfeudation the mesne (or middle) lord suffered his under-tenant or tenant paravail to be […]
DE MELIORIBUS DAMNIS
Of or for the better damages. A term used in practice to denote the election by a plaintiff against which of several defendants (where the damages have been assessed separately) […]
DE MERCATORIBUS
“Concerning merchants.” The name of a statute passed in the eleventh year of Edw. I. (1233.) more commonly called the “Statute of Acton Bur- nel,” authorizing the recognizance by statute […]
DE MINIMIS
a Latin phrase that means of a trifling consequence and a matter that is so small that the court does not wish to even consider it.
