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DENOMBREMENT

DEMURRER

Francisco, 9 Cal. 470; Sands v. Maclay, 2 Mont 38; Seward v. Miller, 6 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 312.

gued to the court in banc, who gave judgment upon the facts as shown in evidence. See 3 Bl. Comm. 372; Bass v. Rublee, 76 Vt. 395, 57 Atl. 966; Patteson v. Ford, 2 Grat. (Va.) 18; Suydam v. Williamson, 20 How. 436, 15 L. Ed. 978; Railroad Co. v. McArthur, 43 Miss. 180.—Demurrer to interrogatories. Where a witness objects to a question pro pounded (particularly on the taking of a dep osition) and states his reason for objecting or refusing to answer, it is called a "demurrer to the interrogatory," though the term cannot here be understood as used in its technical sense. DEMY SANKE, DEMY SANGUE. Half-blood. A corruption of demi-sang.

DENIER.

L. FT. In old English law.

Denial; refusal. is when the rent (being demanded upon the land) Is not paid. Finch, Law, b. 3, c 5. 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, (g. v.) The act of making one a denizen; the conferring of the privileges of citizenship upon an alien born. Cro. Jac. 540. See 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, be ing an alien by birth, has obtained letters pa tent making him an English subject The king may denize, but not naturalize, a man; the lat ter requiring the consent of parliament, as un der the naturalization act, 1870, (33 & 34 Vict c. 14.) A denizen holds a position midway be tween 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 natural-born or naturalized subject may do.) Brown. The word is also used in this sense in South Carolina. See McClenaghan v. Mc Clenaghan, 1 Strob. Eq. (S. C.) 319, 47 Am. Dec. 532. 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 Vict. 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. An English statute, for the amendment of procedure in criminal trials, (28 & 29 Vict c. 18,) allow ing counsel to sum up the evidence in crim inal as in civil trials, provided the prisoner be defended by counsel. In French feudal law. A minute or act drawn up, on the creation of a fief, containing a description of Denier DENIER A DIEU. DENIZATION. DENIZE. To make a man a denizen or citizen. DENIZEN. DENMAN'S (MR.) ACT. DENOMBREMENT.

DEN.

A valley. Blount A hollow place

among woods. Cowell.

DEN AND STROND. In old English law. Liberty for ships or vessels to run aground, or come ashore. Cowell. DENARIATE. In old English law. As much land as is worth one penny per annum.

DENARII.

An ancient general term for

any sort of pecunia numerata,

or ready mon

ey. . The French use the word "denier" the same sense,— payer de sea propres nier*. —Denarii de caritate. In English law. Customary oblations made to a cathedral church at Pentecost.—Denarii S. Petri. (Commonly called "Peter's Pence.") An annual payment on St. Peter's feast of a penny from every family to the pope, during the time that the Roman Catholic religion was established in England. The chief silver coin among the Romans, worth 8d.; It was the seventh part of a Roman ounce. Also an English penny. The denarius was first coined five years before the first Punic war, B. C. 269. In later times a copper coin was called "