Lat. lu old English law. Decrease of the sea; the re-ceding of the sea from the land. Callis, Sew-ers, (53.) 65. See Reliction
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To inveigle, entice, tempt, or lure; as, to decoy a person within the ju-risdiction of a court so that he may be serv-ed with process, or to decoy a fugitive criminal to a place where he may be arrested without extradition papers, or to decoy one away from his place of residence for the pur-pose of kidnapping him and as a part of that act In all these uses, the word implies enticement or luring by means of some fraud, trick, or temptation, bat excludes the idea of force. Eherllng v. State, 136 Ind. 117, 35 N. E. 1023; John v. State, 6 wyo. 203, 44 Pac. 51; Campbell v. Hudson, 106 Mich. 523, 64 N. W. 483
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In old English and Scotch law. Decollation; the punishment of beheading. Fleta, lib. 1, e. 21, $ 6
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In French law. A name formerly given to those persons who died
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The act of boiling a sub-stance in water, for extracting its virtues. Also the liquor in which a substance has been boiled; water impregnated with the prlnci-ples of any animal or vegetable substance boiled in it webster; Sykes v. Magone (C. O.) 38 Fed. 497
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In the Roman law. A bankrupt; a spendthrift; a squanderer of public funds. Calvin
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In English practice. The plea of sanctuary, or of benefit of clergy, before trial or conviction. 2 Hale, P. C. 236 ; 4 Bl. Comm. 333. Now abolished. 4 Steph. Comm. 400, note; Id. 436, note
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In Scotch practice. An objection to the jurisdiction of a judge. Belt
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In Scotch law. A plea to the jurisdiction, on the ground that the judge is interested in the suit
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* In French law. Pleas to the jurisdiction of the court; also of lis pendens, and of connexitd, (q. v
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Explanatory; deslgn-ed to fix or elucidate what before was un-certain or doubtful
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To solemnly assert a fact before witnesses, e. g., where a testator declares a paper signed by him to be his last will and testament. Lane v. Lane, 95 N. Y. 498
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In Scotch law. An action whereby it is sought to have some right of property, or of status, or other right judicially ascertained and declared. Bell
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In the civil law. where one of the parties to a suit, not heing able to prove his charge, offered to refer the decision of the cause to the oath of hls ad-versary, which the adversary was bound to accept, or tender the same proposal back again, otherwise the whole was taken as confessed by him. Cod. 4, 1,12
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A French coin of the value of the tenth part of a franc, or nearly two cents
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In practice. A judgment or decree pronounced by a court in settlement of a controversy submitted to it and
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In ecclesiastical law. Tenths, or tlthes. The tenth part of the annual profit of each living, payable formerly to the pope. There were several valuations made of these livings at different times. The de-cimae (tenths) were appropriated to the crown, and a new valuation established, by 26 Hen. VIII., c. 3. 1 Bl. Comm. 284. See Tithes
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The punishing every tenth soldier by lot, for mutiny or other fa 11-ure of duty, was termed “decimatio Icgio-nis” by the Romans. Sometimes only the twentieth man was punished, (viccsitnatio,) or the hundredth, (ccntesimatio
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To decide includes the power and right to deliberate, to weigh the rea-sons for and against, to see which pre-ponderate. and to be governed by that pre-ponderance. Darden v. Lines, 2 Fla. 571; Com. v. Anthes, 5 Gray (Mass.) 253; In re Milford & M. R. Co., 68 N. H. 570, 36 Atl. 545
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(Ten. times as tnueh.) The name of an anclent writ that was used against a juror who had taken a bribe in money for his verdict. The injured party could thus recover ten times the amount of the bribe
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In Scotch law. To decree. “Decernlt and ordainlt.” 1 How. State Tr. 927. “Decerns.” Shaw, 16
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Lat one who held one-half a virgnte of land. Du Cange, one of the ten freeholders in a decennary. Id. ; Calvin. Decennier. one of the decennarii, or ten freeholders making up a tithing. Spelman
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