Domnin; dominical; heldln one’s own right, and not of a superior; not allotted to tenants
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In Scotch law. Maliciously cutting ofT or otherwise separat-lng one limb from another. 1 Hume, 323; Bell
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In Spanish law. The peti-tion of a plaintiff, setting forth his demand. Las Partidas, pt 3, tlt. 10, 1. 3
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The plaintiff or party suing in a real action. Co. Lltt 127
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In medical jurisprudence. An insane delusion is an unreasoning and in-corrigible belief in the existence of facts which are either impossible absolutely, or, at least, Impossible under the circumstances of the individual. It is never the result of reasoning and reflection; it is not generated by them, and it cannot be dispelled by them; and hence it is not to be confounded with an opinion, however fantastic the latter may be. Guiteau’s Case (D. C.) 10 Fed. 170. See Insanity
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In practice. The ver-dict rendered by a jury
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A disorder of the nervous Bystem, involving the brain and setting up an attack of temporary delusional Insanity, sometimes attended with violent ex-citement or mania, caused by excessive and long continued indulgence in alcoholic liquors, or by the abrupt cessation of such use after a protracted debauch. See Insanity
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In Spanish law. Crime; a crime, offense, or delict, white, New. Recopu b. 2, tit 19, c. 1, I 4
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The act of fixing, marking off, or describing the limits or boundary line of a territory or country
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In medical jurisprudence. Delirium is that state of the mind in which it acts withont being directed by the power of volition, which is wholly or partially sus-pended. This happens most perfectly in dreams. But what is commonly called “de-lirium” is always preceded or attended by a feverish and highly diseased state of the body. The patient in delirium is wholly un-conscious of surrounding objects, or conceives them to be different from what they really
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Lat. A delict, tort, wrong, injury, or offense. Actions ex delicto are such as are founded on a tort, as distinguish-ed from actions on contract
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To mark or lay out the limits or boundary line of a territory or country
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The act or process of deliberating. The act of weighing and ex-amining the reasons’ far and against a con-tempi ated act or course of conduct or a choice bf acts or means. See Deliberate
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In the Roman and civil law. A wrong or injury; an offense; a vlolatlon of public or private duty
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A sending away; a put-ting into commission; the assignment of a debt to another: the intrusting another with a general power to act for the good of those who depute him
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In Freuch marine law. A discharging of ballast (lest) from a vessel
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