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DE TEM.PORE, ETC.

DEAD FREIGHT

This writ has been recognized in America. 2 Chand. Crim. Tr. 381. DE VERBO IN VERBUM. Word for word. Bract, fol. 1386. Literally, from word to word. DE VERBO RUM SIGNIFTCA TIONE. Of the signification of words. An important title of the Digests or Pandects, (Dig. 50, 16,) consisting entirely of defini tions of words and phrases used in the Ro man law. 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 gieat number of laymen, and held out the other vi et armis; then he that was holden out had this writ directed to the sheriff, that he remove the force. Reg. Orig. 59; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 54, D. DE VICINETO. From the neighbor hood, or vicinage. 3 Bl. Comm. 360. A term applied to a jury. DE WARRANTIA CHARTJE. 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 or other action, in which he could not vouch or call to warranty; in which case he might have this writ against the feoffor, or his heir, to compel him to wan ant the land unto him. Reg. Orig. 1576; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 134, D. Abolished by St. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 27. 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 service, so that he could not appear at the day in court. It was directed to the justices, that they should not record him to be in default for his not appearing. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 17, A; Termes de la Ley. DEACON. In ecclesiastical law. A min ister or servant in the church, whose office is to assist the priest in divine service and the distribution of the sacrament. It is the low est order in the Church of England. DEAD BODY. A corpse. DEAD FREIGHT. When a merchant who has chartered a vessel puts on board a pait only of the intended cargo, but yet, hav ing chartered the whole vessel, is bound to pay freight for the unoccupied capacity, the

DE TEMPORE IN TEMPUS ET AD OMNIA TEMPORA. From time to time, and at all times. Townsh. PI. 17 DE TEMPS DONT MEMOBIE NE COURT. L. Fr. From time whereof mem ory 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 THEOLONIO. 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 ATJ DIENDUM ET TERMINANDUM. A writ or commission for the hearing and de termining 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 an other. It differs from a deed inter partes, (q. v.) 2 Bouv. Inst. no. 2001. 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. Comm. 139. DE VASTO. "Writ of waste. A writ which might be brought by him who had the immediate estate of inheritance in rever sion or remainder, against the tenant for life, in dower, by curtesy, or for years, where the latter had committed waste in lands; calling upon the tenant to appear and show cause why he committed waste and destruction m the place named, to the disinherison {ad exharedationem) of the plaintiff. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 55, C; 3 Bl. Comm. 227, 228. Abolished by St. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 27. 3 Steph. Comm. 506. 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 ex amine a widow suspected to be feigning pregnancy in oider to enable a supposititious heir to obtain the estate. 1 Bl. Comm. 456; 2 Steph. Comm. 287. It lay also where a woman sentenced to death pleaded pregnancy. 4 Bl. Comm. 495.

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