Of showing the tablets of a will. Dig. 43, 5.
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DE TALLAGIO NON CONCEDENDO
Of not allowing talliage. The name given to the statutes 25 and 34 Edw. I., restricting the power of the king to grant talliage. 2 Inst. 532 ; 2 Reeve, […]
DE TEMPORE CUJUS CONTRARIUM MEMORIA HOMINUM NON EXISTIT
From time whereof the memory of man does not exist to the contrary. Litt.
DE TEMPORE IN TEMPUS ET AD OMNIA TEMPORA
From time to time, and at all times. Townsh. PI. 17.
DE TEMPS DONT MEMORIE NE COURT
L. Fr. From time whereof memory runneth not; time out of memory of man. Litt. 143. 145, 170.
DE TESTAMENTIS
Of testaments. The title of the fifth part of the Digests or Pandects; comprising the twenty-eighth to the thirty-sixth books, both inclusive.
DE THEOLiONIO
A writ which lay for a person who was prevented from taking toll. Reg. Orig. 103.
DE TRANSGRESSIONE
A writ of trespass. Reg. Orig. 92.
DE TRANSGRESSIONE, AD AU- DIENDUM ET TERMINANDUM
A writ or commission for the hearing and determining any outrage or misdemeanor .
DE UNA PARTE
A deed de una parte Is one where only one party grants, gives, or binds himself to do a thing to another. It differs from a deed inter partes , […]
DE UXORE RAPTA ET ABDUCTA
A writ which lay where a man’s wife had been ravished and carried away. A species of writ of trespass. Reg. Orig. 97; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 89. O; 3 Bl. […]
DE VASTO
Writ of waste . A writ which might be brought by him who had the immediate estate of inheritance in reversion or remainder, against the tenant for life , in […]
DE VENTRE INSPICIENDO
A writ to inspect the body, where a woman feigns to be pregnant, to see whether she is with child. It lies for the heir presumptive to examine a widow […]
DE VERBO IN VERBUM
Word for word. Bract fol. 1386. Literally, from word to word.
DE VI LAICA AMOVENDA
Writ of (or for) removing lay force. A writ which lay where two parsons contended for a church, and one of them entered into it with a great number of […]
DE VICINETO
From the neighborhood , or vicinage. 3 Bl. Comm. 300. A term applied to a jury.
DE WARRANTIA CHART
Writ of warranty of charter. A writ which lay for him who was enfeoffed, with clause of warranty. [in the charter of feoffment,] and was afterwards impleaded In an assise […]
DE WARRANTIA DIEI
A writ that lay where a man had a day in any action to appear in proper person, and the king at that day. or before, employed him in some […]
DEACON
In ecclesiastical law . A minister or servant in the church, whose office is to assist the priest In divine service and the distribution of the sacrament. It is the […]
DEAD BODY
A corpse. The body of a human being, deprived of life, but not yet entirely disintegrated. Meads v. Dougherty County, 98 Ga. 097, 25 S. E. 915.
DEAD BODY RIGHT TO BURY OR CREMATE
A term used in medical jurisprudence where it needs to ascertained how a person has died before they can be cremated or buried.
DEAD CAT BOUNCE
A wall street term for brief recovery in the price of an unprofitable stock.
DEAD FREIGHT
When a merchant who has chartered a vessel puts on board a part only of the intended cargo, but yet, having chartered the whole vessel, is bound to pay freight […]
DEAD HAND CLAUSE
A provision contained within some POISON PILL defenses preventing the acquisition of the company by another firm even if a majority of shareholders approve of the offer. Only incumbent DIRECTORS […]
DEAD LETTERS
Betters which the postal department has not been able to deliver to the persons for whom they were intended. They are sent to the “dead-letter office,” where they are opened, […]
