In English law. A person who, being au alien born, has obtained, ex donattone regis, letters patent to make him an English subject,—a high and incoinmu-nicable branch of the royal prerogative. A denizen is in a kind of middle state between an alien and a natural-bom subject, ond par-takes of the status of both of these. 1 Bl. Comm. 374 ; 7 Coke, 6
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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, (q. v
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The act of making one a denizen; the conferring of the privileges of citizenship upon an alien born. Cro. Jac. 540. See Denizen
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A traverse in the pleading of one party of an allegation of fact set up by the other; a defense. See Flack v. o’Brien, 19 Mlsc. Rep. 399, 43 N. Y. Supp. 854; Mott ▼. Baxter, 29 Colo. 418, 68 Pac. 220
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L. Fr. In old English law. Denial; refusal. Denier is when the rent, (being demanded upon the land) is not paid. Finch, Law, b. 3, c. 5
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An ancient general term for any sort of pecunia numerata, or ready mon-•y. The French use the ward “denier” in the same sense,—pager de ses propres deniers
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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 “denarius.” Smith, Dict. Antiq
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Half-blood. A corruption of demi-sang.
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In old English law. As much laud as is worth one penny per annum
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In maritime law. The sum whlch is fixed by the contract of car-rlage, or whlch is allowed, as remuneration to the owner of a ship for the detention of his vessel beyond the number of days allowed by the charter-party for loading aud unload-ing or for sailing. Also the detention of the vessel by the freighter beyond such time. See 3 Kent, Comm. 203 ; 2 Steph. Comm. 185. The Apollon, 9 wheat. 378, 6 L. Ed. Ill; Fisher v. Abeel, 44 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 440; wordin v. Bemis, 32 Conn. 273, 85 Am. Dec. 255; Cross v. Beard, 26 N. Y. S5; The J. E. owen (D. C.) 54 Fed. 185; Falkeuburg v. Clark, 11 R. I. 283
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In pleading. The form-al mode of disputing the sufficiency in law of the pleadlng of the other slde. In effect it is an allegation that, even lf the facts as stated In the -pleadlng to whlch objection is taken he true, yet their legal consequences are not such as to put the demurring party to the necesslty of answering them or proceedlng further with the cause. Reid v. Field, 83
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In Scotch law. A dooms-man. one who pronounced the sentence of court. 1 How. State Tr. 937
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To present a demurrer; to take an exception to the sufficiency in point of law of a pleading or state of facts alleged. See Demubbeb
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Description; pointing out. That which is said or written to designate a thing or person
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The disuse of a particular metal for purposes of coinage. The withdrawal of the value of a metal as money
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Lat Description; addition; denomination, occurring oftenfln the phrase, “Falsa demonstratio non nocet” (a false description does not harm
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In military law. The dismissal of an army or body of troops from active service
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That form of govern-ment in which the sovereign power resides in and is exercised by the whole body of free citizens; qs distinguished from a monarchy, aristocracy, or oligarchy. According to the theory of a pure democracy, every citizen should participate directly in the business of governing, and tbe legislative assembly should comprise the whole people. But the nltimate lodgment of the sovereignty being tbe distinguishing feature, the introduction of the representative system does not remove a government from this type. Hosvever, a government of tbe latter kind is sometimes specifically described as a “representative de-mocracy.”
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Lat. I have demised or leased. Demisi, concessi, et ad flrmam tradidi; have demised, granted, and to farm let. The usu-al operative words in ancient leases, as the corresponding English words are in the modern forms. 2 Bl. Comm. 317, 318. Koch v. Hustis, 113 wis. 599. 87 N. W. 834; Kinney ▼. watts, 14 wend. (N. T.) 40
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L. Lat A demise or letting. Chiefly used in the phrase ex demissione (on the demise), which formed part of the title of the cause in the old actions of ejectment, where it signified that the nom-inal plaintiff (a fictitious person) held the estate “on the demise” of, that is, by a lease from, the real plaintiff
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In some universities and col-leges this term is synonymous with “schol-ars.”
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French. Half; the half. Used chiefly in composition
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