KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

330 DE STATUTO STAPUL^

DE REBUS

DE SA VIE. L. Fr. Of his or her life; of his own life; as distinguished from pur autre vie, for another's life. Litt. §§ 35, 36. DE SAXVA GARDIA. A writ of safe guard allowed to strangers seeking their rights in English courts, and apprehending violence or injury to their persons or proper ty. Reg. Orig. 26. DE SALVO CONDUCTU. A writ of safe conduct. Reg. Orig. 256, 26. DE SCACCARIO. Of or concerning the exchequer. The title of a statute passed in the fifty-first year of Henry III. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 61. Writ for having (or to have) escuage or scutage. A writ which anciently lay against tenants by knight-service, to compel them to serve in the king's wars or send substitutes or to pay ea cuage; that is a sum of money. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 83, O. The same writ lay for one who had already served in the king's army, or paid a fine instead, against those who held of him by knight-service, to recover his escuage or scutage. Reg. Orig. 88; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 83, D, F. DE SE BENE GERENDO. For behav ing himself well; for his good behavior Yelv. 90, 154. DE SECTA AD MOLENDINUM. Of suit to a mill. A writ which lay to compel one to continue his custom (of grinding) at a mill. 3 Bl. Comm. 235; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 122, M. De similibus ad similia eadem rations procedendiun est. From like things to like things we are to proceed by the same rule or reason, [i. e., we are allowed to argue from the analogy of cases.] Branch, Princ. De similibus idem est judicandum. Of [respecting] like things, [in like cases,] the judgment is to be the same. 7 Coke, 18. DE SON TORT. L. Fr. Of his own wrong. A stranger who takes upon him to act as an executor without any just author ity is called an "executor of his own wrong," (de son tort.) 2 Bl. Comm. 507; 2 Steph. Comm. 244, DE SON TORT DEMESNE. Of his own wrong The law French equivalent of the Latin phrase de injuria, (q. v.) The writ of statute merchant. Reg. Orig. 1466. DE STATUTO STAPUX^B. The writ of statute staple. Reg. Orig. 151. DE SCUTAGIO HABENDO. DE STATUTO MERCATORIO.

DE REBUS. Of things. The title of the third part of the Digests or Pandects, com prising books 12-19, inclusive. DE REBUS DUBIIS. Of doubtful things or matters. Dig. 34, 5. DE RECORDO ET PROCESSU MIT TENDIS. Writ to send the record and pro cess of a cause to a superior court; a species of writ of error. Reg. Orig. 209. DE RECTO. Writ of right Reg. Orig. 1, 2; Bract, fol. 3276. See WBIT OF RIGHT. DE RECTO DE ADVOCATIONE. Writ of right of advowson. Reg. Orig. 296. A writ which lay for one who had an estate in an advowson to him and his heirs in fee simple, if he were disturbed to present. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 30, B. Abolished by St. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 27. DE RECTO DE RATIONABILI PAR TE. Writ of right, of reasonable part. A writ which lay between privies in blood, as between brothers in gavelkind, or between sisters or other coparceners ^or lands in fee simple, where one was deprived of his or her share by another. Reg. Orig. 36; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 9, B. Abolished by St. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 27. DE RECTO PATENS. Writ of right patent. Reg. Orig. 1. DE REDISSEISINA. Writ of redisseisin. A writ which lay where a man recovered by assise of novel disseisin land, rent, or com mon, and the like, and was put in possession thereof by verdict, and afterwards was dis seised of the same land, rent, or common, by him by whom he was disseised before. Reg. Orig. 2066/ Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 188, B. DE REPARATIONE FACIENDA. A writ by which one tenant in common seeks to compel another to aid in repairing the property held in common. 8 Barn. & O. 269. DE RESCUSSU. Writ of rescue or res cous. A writ which lay where cattle dis trained, or persons arrested, were rescued from those taking them. Reg. Orig. 117, 118; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 101, C, G. DE RETORNO HABENDO. For hav ing a return; to have a return. A term ap plied to the judgment for the defendant in an action of replevin, awarding him a re turn of the goods replevied; and to the writ or execution issued thereon. 2 Tidd, Pr. 993, 1038; 3 Bl. Cbmm. 149. Applied also to the sureties given by the plaintiff on com mencing the action. Id. 147. DE RIEN CULPABLE. L. Fr. Guilty ot nothing; not guilty.