Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

DENUNCIATION

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DENARIUS

The word is also nsed in this sens* In South Carolina. See 1 McCord, Eq. 352. A denizen, in the primary, but obsolete, sense of the word, is a natural-born subject of a country. Co. Litt. 129a. DENMAN'S (LORD) ACT. An English statute, for the amendment of the law of evi dence, (6 & 7 Viet. c. 85,) which provides that no person offered as a witness shall there after be excluded by reason of incapacity, from crime or interest, from giving evidence. DENMAN'S (MR.) ACT. An English statute, for the amendment of procedure in criminal trials, (28 & 29 Viet. c. 18,) allow ing counsel to sum up the evidence in crimi nal as in civil trials, provided the prisoner be defended by counsel. DENOMBREMENT. In French feudal law. A minute or act drawn up, on the creation of afief,containing a description of the fief, and all the rights and incidents be longing to it. Guyot, Inst. Feud. c. 3. Denominatio fieri debet a dignioribus. Denomination should be made from the more worthy. DENOUNCEMENT. In Mexican law. A denouncement was a judicial proceeding, and, though real property might be acquired by an alien in fraud of the law,—that is, without observing its requirements,—he nev ertheless retained his right and title to it, but was liable to be deprived of it by the proper proceeding of denouncement, which in its substantive characteristics was equiv alent to the inquest of office found, at com mon law. 26 Cal. 477. DENSHIRING OF LAND. (Other wise called "burn-beating.") A method of improving land by casting parings of earth, turf, and stubble into heaps, which when dried are burned into ashes for a compost. Cowell. DENUMERATION. The act of present payment. DENUNCIA DE OBRA NUEVA. In Spanish law. The denouncement of a new work; being a proceeding to restrain the erec tion of some new work, as, for instance, a Jbuilding which may, if completed, injurious ly affect the property of the complainant; it is of a character similar to the interdicts of possession. Escriche; 1 Cal. 63. DENUNCIATION. In the oivil law. The act by which an individual informs a public officer, whose duty it is to prosecute offenders, that a crime has been committed

DENARIUS. The chief silver coin among the Romans, worth 8d.; it was the seventh part of a Roman ounce. Also an English penny. The denarius wasfirstcoined five years before the first Punic war, B. C. 269. In later times a copper coin was called "denarius." Smith, Diet. Antiq. DENARIUS DEI. (Lat. "God's pen ny.") Earnest money; money given as a token of the completion of a bargain. It dif fers from arrhce, in this: that arrhce is a part of the consideration, while the denarius Dei is no part of it. The latter was given away in charity; whence the name. DENARIUS TERTIUS COMITATUS. In old English law. A third part or penny of the county paid to its earl, the other two parts being reserved to the crown. DENIAL. A traverse in the pleading of one party of an allegation of fact set up by thj other; a defense. DENIER. L. Pr. In old English law. Denial; refusal. Denier is when the rent (being demanded upon the land) is not paid. Finch, Law, b. 3, c. 5. DENIER A DIEU In French law. Earnest money; a sum of money given in token of the completion of a bargain. The phrase is a translation of the Latin Denarius Dei, (q. t>.) DENIZATION. The act of making one a denizen; the conferring of the privileges of citizenship upon an alien born. Cro. Jac. 540. See DENIZEN. DENIZE. citizen. To make a man a denizen or DENIZEN. In English law. A person who, being an alien born, has obtained, ex donatione regis, letters patent to make him an English subject,—a high and incommu nicable branch of the royal prerogative. A denizen is in a kind of middle state between an alien and a natural-born subject, and par takes of the status of both of these. 1 Bl. Comm. 374; 7 Coke, 6. The term is used to signify a person who, being an alien by birth, has obtained letters patent mak ing him an English subject. The king may denize, but not naturalize, a man; the latter requiring the consent of parliament, as under the naturalization act, 1870, (33 & 34 Viet. c. 14.) A denizen holds a position midway between an alien and a natural born or naturalized subject, being able to take lands by purchase or devise, (which an alien could not until 1870 do,) but not able to take lands by descent, (which a naturai-born or naturalized sub ject may do.) Brown

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