日期：2008-03-13 DIGNITIES . English law. Titles of honor. 2. They are considered as incorporeal hereditaments. 3. The genius of our government forbids their admission into the republic. DILAPIDATION . Literally, this signifies the injury done to a building by takin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DIES . A day. There are four sorts of days: 1. A natural day; as, the morning and the evening made the first day. 2. An artificial day; that is, from day-break until twilight in the evening. 3. An astrological day, dies astrologicus, from sun to sun... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DEVOIR . Duty. It is used in the statute of 2 Ric. II., c. 3, in the sense of duties or customs. DEVOLUTION , eccl. law. The transfer, by forfeiture, of a right and power which a person has to another, on account of some act or negligence of the per... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DEVISAVIT VEL NON , practice. The name of an issue sent out of a court of chancery, or one which exercises chancery jurisdiction, to a court of law, to try the validity of a paper asserted and denied to be a will, to ascertain whether or not the tes... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DEVIATION , insurance, contracts. A voluntary departure, without necessity, or any reasonable cause, from the regular and usual course of the voyage insured. 2. From the moment this happens, the voyage is changed, the contract determined, and the in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DETINUIT , practice. He detained. 2. Where an action of replevin is instituted for goods which the defendant had taken, but which he afterwards restored, it is said to be brought in the detinuit; in such case the judgment is, that the plaintiff reco... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DETERMINABLE FEE . Also called a qualified or base fee, is one which has a quality subjoined to it, and which must be determined whenever the qualification annexed to it is at in end. A limitation to a man and his heirs on the part of his father, af... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DETAINER . 1. The act of keeping a person against his will, or of keeping goods or property. All illegal detainers of the person amount to false imprisonment, and may be remedied by habeas corpus. 2. - 2. A detainer or detention of goods is either l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DESPERATE . Of which there is no hope. 2. This term is used frequently, in making an inventory of a decedent's effects, when a debt is considered so bad that there is no hope of recovering it. It is then called a desperate debt, and, if it be so ret... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DESERTION , torts. The act by which a man abandons his wife and children, or either of them. 2. On proof of desertion, the courts possess the power to grant the 'Wife, or such children as have been deserted, alimony (q. v.) DESERTION, MALICIOUS . Th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DESCRIPTIO PERSONAE . Description of the person. In wills, it frequently happens, that the word heir is used as a descriptio personae; it is then a sufficient designation of the person. DESCRIPTION . A written account of the state and condition of p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DERIVATIVE POWER . An authority by which one person enables another to do an act for him. See Powers. DEROGATION , civil law. The partial abrogation of a law; to derogate from a law is to enact something which is contrary to it; to abrogate a law is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DEPUTY OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL . An officer appointed by the attorney general, who is to hold his office during the pleasure of the latter, and whose duty it is to perform, within a specified district, the duties of the attorney general. He must be... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DEPOSITION , eccl. law. The act of depriving a clergyman, by a competent tribunal, of his clerical orders, to punish him for some offence, and to prevent his acting in future in his clerical character. Ayl. Par. 206. DEPOSITOR , contracts. He who ma... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DEPOSITARY , contracts. He with whom a deposit is confided or made. 2. It is, the essence of the contract of deposits that it should be gratuitous on the part 'of the depositary. 9 M. R. 470. Being a bailee without reward, the depositary is bound to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DEPARTURE , maritime law. A deviation from the course of the voyage insured. 2. A departure is justifiable or not justifiable it is justifiable ill consequence of the stress of weather, to make necessary repairs, to succor a ship in distress, to avo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-13 DEPARTMENT OF WAR , government. The act of August 7, 1789, 1 Story's Laws, 31, creates an executive department, to be denominated the department of war; and there shall be a principal officer therein, to be called the secretary for the department of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 DENUNCIATION , crim. law. This term is used by the civilians to signify the act by which au individual informs a public officer, whose duty it is to prosecute offenders, that a crime has been committed. It differs from a complaint. (q. v.) Vide 1 Br... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 DEMURRER BOOK Eng. law. When an issue in law is formed, a transcript is made upon paper of all the pleadings that have been filed or delivered between the parties, which transcript is called the demurrer book. Steph. Pl. 95. See Paper book. DEMY SAN... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-12 DEMISE , contracts. In its most extended signification, it is a conveyance either in fee, for life, or for years. In its more technical meaning, it is a lease or conveyance for a term of years. Vide Cow. L. T. Index, h. t.; Ad. Eject. Index, h. t.;... 阅读全文>>