In Roman law. Criminals who had been marked in the face or on the body with fire or nn iron, so that the mark could not be erased, and subsequently manumitted. Calvin
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By “deduction” is under-stood a portion or thing which au heir hns a right to take from the mass of the suc-cession before auy partition takes place. Civil Code La. art 1358
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In old Eugllsh prac-tice. A writ, issued by royal authority, empowering an attorney to appear for a defeud-aut. Prior to tlie statute of westmiuster 2, a party could not appear in court by attor-ney without this writ
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(Lat. we have given aud granted.) words used by the king, or where there were more gran-tors than one, instead of dedi et conceasi
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(we have given power.) In English practice. A writ or commission issuing out of chancery, eni-powering the persons named therein to per-form certain acts, as to administer oaths to defendants in chancery and take their an-swers, to administer oaths of office to justices of the peace, etc. 3 Bl. Comm. 447. It was anciently allowed for many purposes not now in use, as to make an attorney, to take the acknowledgment of a fine, etc
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In real property law. An appropriation of land to some public use, made by the owner, and accepted for such use by or on behalf of the public; a deliberate appropriation of land by Its owner for any general and public uses, reserving to hlmself no other rights than such as are com-patible with the full exercise aud enjoymeut
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The feast of ded-ication of charches, or rather the feast day of the saint and patron of tt church, which was celebrated not only by the inhabitants of the place, but by those of all the neighboring villages, who usually eame thither; nnd such assemblies were allowed as lawful, it was usual for the people to feast aud to drink on those days. Cowell
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I have given and granted. The operative words of conveyance in ancient charters of feoffment, and deeds of gift and grant; the English “given and granted” being still the most proper, though not the essential, words by which such con-veyances are made. 2 Bl. Comm. 53, 316, 317; 1 Steph. Comm. 164, 177, 473, 474
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To appropriate aud set apart one’s private property to some public use; as to make a private way public by acts evlnciug an lntentlon to do so
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ln Saxon law. An actual homicide or manslaughter
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(Lat. x have given.) A word used in deeds and other instruments of con-veyance when such instruments were made iu Latin, and anciently held to imply a wur-ranty of title. Deakins v. lloliis, 7 Gill A J. (Md.) 315
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To cry down; to deprive of credlt “The king may at any time decry or cry down any coin of the kingdom, and make it no longer current.’* 1 Bl. Comm. 278
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Lat. A decnrion. In the provincial admlnistration of the Roman em-pire, the decurions were tlie chief men or official personages of the large towns. Taken as a body, the decurions of a city were charg-ed with the entire control and administra-tion of its internal affairs; having powers both magisterial and legislative. See 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 54
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Grattan’s de-cree, or decretum. A collection of eccleslas-tical law in three books or parts, made in the year 1151, by Gratian, a Benedictine monk of Bologna, being tiie oldest as well as tbe first in order of the collections which to-gether form the body of the Roman canon law. 1 Bl. Comm. 82; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 67
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In Spanish colonial law. An order emanating from some superior tribunni, promulgated in the name aud by the au-thority of the sovereign, in relation to eccle-siastical matters. Schm. Civil Law, 93, note
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In tbe civU law. A species of imperial constitution, being a*Judg-meut or sentence given by the emperor upon
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In ecclesiastical law. Letters of the pope, written at the suit or Instance of one or more persons, determining some point br question in ecclesiastical law, and possessing the force of law. The decretals form the second part of the body of can-on law
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A supplemental collection of the canon law, published by Boniface VIII. in 1298, called, also, “Liber Sextus Decretalium,” (Sixth Book of the Decretals.)
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This term designates a person who is disabled, incapable, or incompe-tent, either from physical or mental weakness or defects, whether produced by age or other causes, to such an extent as to render the individual comparatively helpless in a personal conflict with one possessed of ordi-nary health and strength. Hall v. State, 16 Tex. App. 11, 49 Am. Rep. 824
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In the Roman law. Judlcial sentences given by the emperor as supreme judge
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In Scotch law. The final Judgment or sentence of a court
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