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Death, execution of sentence of, iv, 403, | Dedimus potestatem, i, 352; ii, 351;
404.

action for causing, iii, 119.

iii, 447.

De donis, statute of, ii, 112.

of party, when suit abated by, iii, Deed, conveyance by, ii, 295.

301.

De bene esse, iii, 383.

Debenture, for money, &c., stealing,
iv, 234.

Debet et detinet, action in, iii, 155.
De bonis asportatis, trespass, iii, 150.
Debt, national and charge thereof, i, 325;
iv, 441.

its legal acceptation, iii, 154.

action of, when it may be brought,
iii, 154.

ɔn amercement, iii, 159.

on escape, iii, 164.

on by-law, iii, 159.

on judgment, iii, 158.

on penal statutes, iii, 159.
information of, iii, 261.

formerly the exact sum demanded
must have been recovered, iii, 155.

Debts, ii, 464 et seq.

of record, ii, 465.
by specialty, ii, 465.
(See "Bond,"
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'Covenant," "Judg.

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what is, ii, 295.

several species of deeds, ii, 309.
indenture or deed-poll, ii, 295.
original and counterpart, ii, 296.
covenants by or with persons not par-
ties, ii, 296.

may be printed, ii, 297.

consideration not essential to, ii, 296.
by feme covert, ii, 361, 362, 392.
construction of, ii, 19, 379.
recitals in, ii, 298.

deed-poll taken most strongly against
the grantor, ii, 121, 380.

the first of two repugnant clauses
preferred, ii, 381.

intended to operate one way may
operate another, ii, 338, 379.
preference of operation at the com-
mon law, ii, 379, n.

creation of estates by.

(See "Estate.")

form of conveyance of estate for
life, ii, 120.

effect of conveyance without words

of limitation, ii, 107, 108, n., 120, n.
implication of cross-remainders, ii,
381.

formal parts of, ii, 298.
premises, ii, 298.
habendum, ii, 298.
tenendum, ii, 298.
reddendum, ii, 299.
condition, ii, 299.
warranty, ii, 300.

covenants for title, &c., ii, 304.
conclusion, date, &c., ii, 304.

must be read on request, ii, 304.
signing and sealing, ii, 305.
statute of frauds, ii, 306.

execution while incomplete, ii, 307.
delivery, ii, 306.

escrow, ii, 306.
attestation, ii, 307.
stamps on, ii, 297.
defeasance to, ii, 327.

how avoided, ii, 308.

erasure or alteration of, ii, 308.

breaking the seal, cancellation, ii, 308.

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Defectum, challenge propter, iii, 362; | Deputies of sheriff, i, 345.

iv, 352.

Defence, its legal signification, iii, 296.

by counsel in criminal cases, iii, 355.
of family, iii, 3.

Defensive allegation, iii, 100.

Deforcement, iii. 172.

Deforciant, ii, 350; iii, 174.

Definitive sentence, iii, 101.
Degradation of peer, i, 402.

Degrees conferred by the archbishop,
ii, 381.

of guilt, iv, 34.

in writs of entry, iii, 181.

of kindred, computation of, ii, 207
and n., 224.

De homine replegiando, writ of, iii, 128.
Dehors, matter of, iii, 387; iv, 390.
Delay of the law. iii, 423.
Delegates, court of, iii, 66, 69.

its powers transferred to the king in
council, iii, 67, n.

Delegating legislative powers, i, 52, n.
Delegation not representation, i, 159.
Delictum, challenge propter, iii, 362;
iv, 352.

Deliverance, second writ of, iii, 150.
Delivery symbolical, ii, 312.
of deed, ii, 306.

of goods, ii, 441.

(See "Sale.")

Demandant and tenant.

(See "Ejectment.")

De medietate linguæ, jury, iii, 359.

De minimis non curat lex, iii, 228.
Demesne, seisin in, ii, 105.

lands, ii, 90, 100.

Demesnes of the crown, i, 286.

Demi-mark, tender of, iii, 5.

Demise, ii, 317.

Demise of the crown, i, 188, 249.
Demi-vills, i, 115.

Democracy, i, 49.

Demolishing churches, houses, &c., iv,

143.

Demurrer, iii, 314.
joinder in, iii, 315.
to evidence, iii, 372.
how decided, iii, 323.
in equity, iii, 446.
by the parol, iii, 430.
to indictment, iv, 333.
Demurrer book, iii, 317.
Denizen, i, 374; ii, 249, 293.
Deodands, i, 300, 302; iii, 259.
De otio et atia, writ of, iii, 128.
Departure in pleading, iii, 310.
De populatio agrorum, iv, 374.
Depositions. iii, 383.

against prisoners, iv, 296.
in equity, iii, 449.

in ecclesiastical courts, iii, 100.
Depositum, ii, 452.

Deprivation of clerks, i, 393.

De proprietate probanda, iii, 148.

Dereliction of property, ii, 9.

title to new land left by the sea, ii,

261.

Descender, formedon in, iii, 192.
Descent of the crown collateral, i, 193;
iv, 413.

hereditary, but subject to limitation
by parliament, i, 194.
of lands, iv, 413, 421.
title by, ii, 200 et seq.
feudal, origin of, ii, 56.

distinguished from purchase and es-
cheat, ii, 201.

different kinds of, ii, 202.

in borough English and gavel-kind,
ii, 83, 84.

no lineal ascent, ii, 210. See 240, n.
males preferred to females, ii, 212.
primogeniture, ii, 56, 214.

consanguinity and degrees, ii, 202,
207, n., and 224.

Descent, collateral consanguinity, ii,
204.

heirs apparent and presumptive, ii,
208.

canons of descent, ii, 208 et seq.
lineal descent to issue of person last
seized, ii, 208.

partible descent among daughters,
ii, 214.

descent of title of honor to daughter,

ii, 216.

ancient partible descent in socage,
ii, 215.

representation, ii, 216, 219.
collateral heir, ii, 220, 224.

applies only to land purchased, i, 220.
fiction of feudum novum, held aut
antiquum, ii, 221.

effect of union of legal and equitable
titles, ii, 222, n.

different heirs to the same person in

respect of different estates, ii, 222, n.
immediate descent between brothers
and sisters, ii, 226, 250.
half-blood, ii, 227, 233, 240.
possessio patris, ii, 228.

preference of male stocks, ii, 212, 234,
240, n.

rules of descent, subsequent to the
year 1833, ii, 240, n

lineal ascent, ii, 240, n.

through an alien, ii, 226, n., 250, 251.
corruption of blood, ii, 251, 253.
escheat, ii, 244.

(See "Escheat.")

distinguished from purchase, ii, 243.
modes of failure of hereditary blood,
ii, 246.

changing the stock of descent, i,
240, n.

effect of partition on, ii, 191.

of equity changed by merger in legal
estates, ii, 337, n.

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Descent, change of by recovery, ii, 362.
when heir takes by purchase, ii,
240, n.

may toll right of entry, iii, 176.

of copyholds, admittance of heir, ii,
371.

rules followed in equity, iii, 430.
Description of property, construction
of particular words, ii, 19.
Desertion of children, i, 458.

by soldiers, i, 416; iv, 102.
Detainer, forcible, iii, 179; iv, 148.
unlawful, iii, 151.
Determinable fee, ii, 109.

(See "Estate.")

Determination of will, ii, 146.

Detinet, action of debt in the, iii, 156.
Detinue, action of, when it may be
brought, iii, 152.
execution, iii, 413.
Devastation, ii, 508.

Devises, alienation by, ii, 373; iv, 430.
(See "Wills.")
executory, ii, 172.

title by, in general, ii, 373.

by married woman, ii, 375, n.
revocation of, ii, 376.

Die eat sine, iii, 316, 399.
Diet, excess in, iv, 171.
Diets, i. 147.

Digests, i, 81.

Dignity of the king, i, 241.

Dignities, ii, 37, 91.

descent of, ii, 216.
curtesy of, ii, 126, n.

Dilapidations, remedy for, iii, 91.
Dilatory pleas, iii, 301.

within what time to be pleaded, iii,
301, n.

Diminishing the coin, iv, 90.

Diminution of record, iv, 390.
Diocese, i, 111.

Direct prerogatives, i, 239.
Directory part of a law, i, 55.
Disabilities, iv, 377.

to purchase and convey, ii, 291.

of Roman catholics, relief from, i,
368, n.

plea to, iii, 301.

Disabling a man's limbs or members,
iv, 205-207.

Disabling statutes, ii, 320; iv, 432.
Disclaimer of tenure, ii, 275; iii, 233.
of estate, ii, 309.
Discontinuance of suit, iii, 296.
of estate, iii, 171.

Discovery on oath, iii, 382, 437.
of accomplices, iv, 330, 331.
by bankrupt, ii, 483.

Discretion of judges, iii, 433.

Discretionary fines and imprisonment,

iv, 378.

Disfiguring, iv, 207.

Disguise, offences in, iv, 144.

Disinheriting of child, i, 449.

Dismission of, bill, iii, 451.
Disorderly houses, iv, 167.
persons, iv, 169.
Disparagement, ii, 70.

Dispensing power of the king, i, 142,
186, 342; iv, 436, 460.

Dispensation from the pope, iv, 115.
Dispossession, iii, 167, 198.

Dissection of murderers, iv, 202, 377,
453.

Disseisin, ii, 195, 302; iii, 169.

at election, iii, 170.

warranty commencing by, ii, 302.
writ of entry, sur, iii, 183.
release of right, ii, 325.
Dissenters, protestant, iv, 50.

disturbing worship of, iv, 54.
Dissolution of parliament, i, 187.
Dissolution of inarriage, i, 440.
Dissuading witnesses, offence of, iv, 126.
Distrainers, must find a proper pound,
iii, 13, n.

Distress, remedy by, ii, 41, 42, 43, 452;
iii, 5.

for what it may be made, iii, 6.
must be an ancient demise at a fixed
rent, iii, 6.

what may be distrained, iii, 6.
exemptions from, iii, 7.

for benefit of trade, iii, 7, n.

goods in custody of the law, iii, 9, n.
when goods or cattle of a stranger
may be distrained, iii, 8.
fixtures cannot be taken, iii, 9.
of emblements, ii, 123, n., 404.
when corn may be taken, iii. 9.

when implements of trade may be
taken, iii, 9, n.

formerly looked upon as a mere
pledge, iii, 9.

must be made by day, iii, 10.

unless in case of damage feasant, iii,
10.

may be made within six months after
determination of lease, iii, 10.

goods clandestinely carried off prem-
ises may be taken, stat. 8 Ann. c. 14,
iii, 10 and n.

cannot be made twice, iii, 11.
must not be excessive, iii, 11.
remedy for excessive, iii, 12.
how to be disposed of, iii, 12.
impounding, iii, 12.
sale of, iii, 13.

Distress, party distraining not to be
deemed trespasser ab initio, iv, 13.
remedy by, for subtraction, iii, 221.
illegal, for crown debts, iv, 423.
irregularity in, does not make the
landlord a trespasser ab initio, iii,

213.

infinite, iii, 231, 280; iv, 285, 318.
Distribution of intestate's effects, ii, 315,
515; iv, 408, 424, 439.

law of domicile, ii, 387, n.

Dismembering, punishment by, iv, 377. | District of Columbia, i, 112, n.

Distringas, iii, 280.

now abolished, iii, 280, n.
in detinue, iii, 413.
in equity, iii, 445.
Disturbance, iii, 236.
of common, iii, 237.
of franchises, iii, 236.

of patronage, iii, 292.

of tenure, iii, 292.

of ways, iii, 241.

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Druids, their customs, i, 63; iv, 408.
Drunkenness, how far it excuses crime,
iv, 25.

punishment for, &c., iv, 64.

will made during, ii, 497, and n.
Duchy court of Lancaster, iii, 78.
Ducking-stool, iv, 167, 377.

Due process of law, what is, i, 135, n.;
iii, 422.

procedure an essential part of, i, 142.

Disturbance of religious assemblies, iv, Duelling, iii, 337, 351; iv, 145, 185, 199.

54, and n.

Disturber, ii, 278.

Diversity of person, plea of, iv, 396.
Dividend warrants, forgery of, iv, 248,
250.

Dividend on bankruptcy, ii, 487.
Divine law, i, 42.

offences against, iv, 250.
right of bishops, iv, 436.
of kings, i, 191.

Divine service, tenure by, ii, 102.
Divorce, i, 440; iii, 94; iv, 164.

by legislature, i, 441.
dower lost by, ii, 130, n.
court of, iii, 67, n., 95, n.
Dock, stealing from, iv, 240.

Docket of judgment, ii, 511; iii, 397.
Doctrines, illegal, asserting or publish-
ing, iv, 91, 116, 123.
Dogs, property in, ii, 393.
right to keep. ii, 416.
damage by, iii, 153.
stealing, iv, 236.

Dome-book of Alfred, i, 64, 66, 114; iv,
411.

Domesday book, ii, 49, n., 99; iii, 331.
Domestic relations, i, 422.

injuries affecting, iii, 139.

Domicile, regulates succession to per-
sonalty, ii, 387, n.

(See "Dwelling House.")
Dominions, foreign, i, 110.
Donatio mortis causa, ii, 514.

Double plea, iii, 308.

Dowager, queen, i, 224; iv, 81.
princess, iv, 81.

Dower, title by, in general, iv, 424.
estate in, its origin, nature and inci-
dents, ii, 129 et seq., 135.
how barred, ii, 136 et seq.

of wife of heir, who died without
having been seized, ii, 209, n.

of a trust, 127, 132, n.

of wife of felon, ii, 253.
how prevented, ii, 136.
jointure in lieu of, ii, 137.

unde nihil habet, writ of, iii, 182.
writ of right of, iii, 182.

writ of admeasurement of, iii, 182.
Draft for money, ii, 467.

forgery of, iv, 248.

Dramatic piece, right to represent, ii,
407, n.

Drawbacks, i, 315.

Drawing to the gallows, iv, 92, 337.

Dukes, i, 397, 409.

Dumb and deaf persons, trial of, iv, 324.
wills by, ii, 497.

Dum fuit infra ætatem, writ of, iii, 183.
Dum non compos mentis, writ of, iii,
183.

Duodecima manus, iii, 343.
Duplex querela, iii, 246.

Duplicates, iii, 310.

Duplicity in pleading, iii, 308, 311.

Duress of imprisonment, i, 131, 136.
per minas, i, 131.

wills made under, ii, 497.

conveyance by person under, ii, 292.
of testator, ii, 497.

in criminal law, iv, 30.

Durham, county palatine of, i, 117, 118.
now united to the crown, iii, 79, n.
Duties of persons, i, 123.

of the king, i, 233.

Duty, origin of, ii, 8, n.

action for breach or neglect of, iii,
164.

Dwelling-house, what is, iv, 224, and n.
breaking in. burglary, iv, 226.

to make distress, iii, 11, n.
to make arrest, iii, 228.

Ealdormen, i, 398.

Ear, loss of, iv, 146, 157, 160, 206, 248,
377.

Earl, i, 166, 398.

Earl marshal, his court, iii, 68; iv, 267.
Earnest money, ii, 447.

Easements, distinguished from rights
of common, &c., ii, 32, n.
description and classification of, ii,
36, n.

how gained and transferred, ii, 36,
266, n.

peculiarity of right to light and air,
ii, 266, n., 402.

right of way, by grant, by prescrip-
tion, by necessity, ii, 35.
abandonment of, ii, 264, n.
Eat inde sine die, iii, 316, 399.
Eaves-droppers, iv, 168.
Ecclesiastical matters.

(See "Advowson," "Simony.")
Ecclesiastical courts, separation of,
from the civil, iii, 62; iv, 415, 421.
revenues, i, 282.

what injuries are cognizable by, iii,
87.

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Ecclesiastical courts, have no jurisdic-| Election of widow between devise and
tion to try the right to tithes, iii,
88.

method of proceeding in, iii, 98.
jurisdiction, how limited at present,
iii, 67, n.

societies in America, i, 376, n.
corporations, i. 470.

when separated from civil, iv, 415,
421.
Ecclesiastical persons, residence of, ii,
322.

leases and renewals by, ii, 318 et seq.
Edgar, King, his laws, i, 66; iv, 412.
Edmund Ironside, i, 198.
Education of children, i, 450.

Edward the Confessor, his laws, i, 66,
67, n., 198; iv, 412, 420.

Edward I, the English Justinian, iv, 425. |
Egbert, King, i, 197.

Egyptians, iv, 126.

Ejectione firmæ, writ of, iii, 197.
Ejectment, action of, iv, 441.

substitute for writ of right, iii, 191.
now the only mode of trying title of
lands, iii, 197, n.

when it lies, iii, 199.

introduction of judgment to recover
the term, and writ of possession,
iii, 200.

how applied to the use of trying the
title to land, iii, 201.

notice to be given to the tenant in
possession, iii, 201.

regular method of bringing an action
of, iii, 202.

fictions in, iii, 202.

real issue in, iii, 204.

invention of new method of trying
titles by, iii, 202.

notice to tenant in possession, iii, 203.
tenant may defend, iii, 203.
landlord may be made defendant,
iii, 204.

tenant must confess lease, entry and
ouster, iii, 203.

must specify in the rule of court the
premises for which he intends to
defend, iii, 204, n.

if lease, entry and ouster not con-
fessed at the trial, plaintiff must be
nonsuited, iii, 204.
consequence thereof, iii, 204.
question may be retried, iii, 204.
when a court of equity will interfere
to prevent it, iii, 204.

will not lie for incorporeal heredita-
ments, except tithes, iii, 206.
remedy where rent is in arrear,
iii, 206.

Election of bishops, i, 377; iv, 115, 421.
by corporations, i, 478, n.

of magistrates, i, 304; iv, 413, 427.
of members of parliament, i, 170, 177.
of Scotch peers, i, 169; iv, 416.
of Irish peers, i, 104, n.

dower, ii, 138, n.

of remedy in case of nuisance, iii, 220,
and n.

Elective monarchy, iv, 413.
Electors in boroughs, i, 172, n.
in counties, i, 172, n.

privilege of, from arrest, iii, 289, n.
Eleemosynary corporations, i, 471.
Elegit, estate by, ii, 161.

(See "Judgment.")
invention of, id., n.

ouster of estate held by, iii, 198.
writ of, iii, 417; iv, 426.

when capias ad satisfaciendum may
issue after, iii, 419.
Elisors, i, 349; iii, 355.
Elopement, i, 442.
Ely, Isle of, i, 120.

county of, now abolished, iii, 79, n.
destroying powdikes in, iv, 244.
Emancipation of slaves, i, 423, n., 425, n.
of children, i, 453, n.

Embargo, i, 270.

Embezzlement of the king's stores, &c.,
iv, 101.

by clerks or servants, iv, 231.
by servants of persons deceased,
iv, 231.

by bankrupts, iv, 156.

by persons in the public service,
iv, 122.

by persons employed in the post-office,
iv, 235 and n.

Emblements, right to, ii, 403.
go to the executor, ii, 403.
distress of, ii, 404.

of tenant for life, ii, 122.
of tenant for years, ii, 145.
of tenant at will, ii, 146.
what are emblements, ii, 143.
Emblements, rights of devisee and heir
respectively, ii, 122.

rights of incumbents, executors, &c.,
ii, 123.

rights of sub-lessees, ii, 123.
Emboweling alive, iv, 92, 377.
Embracery, iv, 140.

Eminent domain, i, 139, n.; ii, 35, n.
Emperor, his authority, i, 242.
Employment, what is scope of, i, 430.
Empson and Dudley, iv, 310.
Enabling statute, ii, 319.
Enceinte, capacity of child of which
woman is, i, 130; ii, 169.

jury to determine whether woman is,
iii, 362; iv, 395.

Enclosure, disseisin by, iii, 170.
of common, ii, 34.

Enclosure acts, ii, 34, n.

Encroachment by a sea or river, ii, 261.
Endowment of vicarages, i, 387.
Enemies, i, 257, 373, n.

adhering to, offence of, iv, 82.
Enemy, prize of goods of, ii, 401.
contract with, ii, 401.

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