日期：2008-03-13 EAVES-DROPPERS , crim. law. Persons as wait under walls or windows or the eaves of a house, to listen to discourses, and thereupon to frame mischievous tales. 2. The common law punishment for this offence is fine, and finding sureties for good behav... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 E CONVERSO . On the other side or hand; on the contrary. E PLURIBUS UNUM . One from more. The motto of the arms of the United States. EAGLE , money. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars. It weighs two hundred and fifty-eight... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DYNASTY . A succession of kings in the same line or family; government; sovereignty. DYSNOMY . Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws. DYSPEPSIA , med. jur., contracts. A state of the stomach in which its functions are disturbed, without the pre... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DUTIES . In its most enlarged sense, this word is nearly equivalent to taxes, embracing all impositions or charges levied on persons or things; in its more restrained sense, it is often used as equivalent to customs, (q. v.) or imposts. (q. v.) Stor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DURANTE ABSENTIA . When the executor is out of the jurisdiction of the court or officer to whom belongs the probate of wills and granting letters of administration, letters of administration will be granted to another during the absence of the execu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DUPLICITY , pleading. Duplicity of pleading consists in multiplicity of distinct matter to one and the same thing, whereunto several answers are required. Duplicity may occur in one and the same pleading. Double pleading consists in alleging, for on... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DUNG . Manure. Sometimes it is real estate, and at other times personal property. When collected in a heap, it is personal estate; when spread out-on the land, it becomes incorporated in it, and it is then real estate. Vide Manure. DUNGEON . A cell... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DUELLING , crim. law. The fighting of two persons, one against the other, at an appointed time and place, upon a precedent quarrel. It differs from an array in this, that the latter occurs on a sudden quarrel, while the former is always the result o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DRY . Used figuratively, it signifies that which produces nothing; as, dry exchange; dry rent; rent seek. DRY EXCHANGE , contracts. A term invented for disguising and covering usury; in which something, was pretended to pass on both sides, when in t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DROIT D'AUBAINE , jus albinatus. This was a rule by which all the property of a deceased foreigner, whether movable or immovable, was confiscated to the use of the state, to the exclusion of his heirs, whether claiming ab intestato, or under a will... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DROIT D'ACCESSION , French civil law. Specificatio. That property which is acquired by making a new species out of the material of another. Modus acquirendi quo quis ex aliena materia suo nomine novam speciem faciens bona fide ejus speciei dominium... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DRAWING . A representation on paper, card, or other substance. 2. The Act of Congress of July 4, 1836, section 6, requires all persons who apply for letters patent for an invention, to accompany their petitions or specifications with a drawing or dr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DRAIN . Conveying the water from one place to another, for the purpose of drying the former 2. The right of draining water through another map's land. This is an easement or servitude acquired by grant or prescription. Vide 3 Kent, Com. 436 7 Mann.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DOWER UNDE NIHIL HABET . This is a writ of right in its nature. It lies only against the tenant of the freehold. 12 Mass. 415 2 Saund. 43, note 1; Hen. Munf. 368 F. N. B. 148. It is a writ of entry, where the widow is deforced of the whole of her do... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DOVE . The name of a well known bird. 2. Doves are animals ferae naturae, and not the subject of larceny, unless they are in the owner's custody; as, for example, in a dove-house, or when in the nest before they can fly. 9 Pick. 15. See Whelp. DOWAG... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DOUBLE INSURANCE , contracts. Where the insured makes, two insurances on the same risk, and the same interest. 12 Mass. 214. It differs from re-insurance in this, that it is made by the insured, with a view of receiving a double satisfaction in case... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DOTE , Span. law. The property which the wife gives to the hushand on account of marriage. 2. It is divided into adventitia and profectitia; the former is the dote which the father or grandfather, or other of the ascendants in the direct paternal li... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DONATION INTER Vivos, contracts. A contract which takes place by the mutual consent, of the giver, who divests himself of the thing given in order to transmit the title of it to the donee gratuitously, and the donee, who accepts the thing and acquir... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DONATIO MORTIS CAUSA , contracts, legacies. A gift in prospect of death. When a person in sickness, apprehend ing his dissolution near, delivers, or causes to be delivered to another, the possession of any personal goods, to keep as his own, in case... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DOMINANT . estates. In the civil law, this term is used to signify the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate; for example, where the owners of the estate, Blackacre, have a right of way or passage over the estate Whiteac... 阅读全文>>