In old English law. Con-demned; prohibited by law; unlawful. Dam-natus coitus, an unlawful connection
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In old English law. Causing damage or loss, as distinguished from torcenouse, wrongful Britt, c. 61
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Loss, injury, or deteriora-tion, caused by the negligence, design, or ac-cident of one person to another, in respect of the latter’s person or property. The word is to be distinguished from ita plural,—“damages,”—which means a compensation In raon-ey for a loss or damage
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A pecuniary compensation or Indemnity, which may be recovered in the courts by apy person who has suffered loss, detriment, or injury, whether to hls person, property, or rights, through the unlawful act or omission or negligence of another. Scott v. Donald, 165 U. 8. 58, 17 Sup. Ct 265, 41 L. Ed. 632; Crane v. Peer, 43 N. J. Eq. 553, 4 Ati. 72; Cincinnati v. Hafer, 49 Ohio St 60, 30 N. E. 197; wainscott v. Loan Ass’n, 98 Cal. 253, 33 Pac. 88; Carvill v. Jacks, 43 Ark. 449; Collins v. Railroad Co., 9 Heisk. (Tenn.) 850; New York v. Lord, 17 wend. (N. Y.) 293; o’Connor v. Dils, 43 W. Va. 54, 26 S. E. 354
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A. A certain measure of land; such narrow slips of pasture. as are left between the plowed furrows in arable land. Cowell
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S, or DAIS. The raised floor at the upper end of a hall
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Every day; every day in the week; every day in the week except one. A newspaper which is published six days in each week is a “daily’’ newspaper. Rlchard-son v. Tobin, 45 Cal. 30; Tribune Pub. Co. v. Duluth, 45 Minn. 27, 47 N. W. 309; King;1 man v. wangh, 139 Mo. 360, 40 S. W. 884
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In Spanlsh law. The real and effective delivery of an object in the execu-tion of a contract
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B. An abbreviation for debitum sine brevi, or debit sans breve
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S? DABO. Lat. (will you give? I will give.) In the Roman, law. one of. the forms of maklug a verbal stipulation, lnst. 3, 15, 1; Bract, fol. 15b
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N. An abbreviation for de bonis non; descriptive of a species of administration
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C. Au abbreviation used for De ea re ita ccnsucrc, (concerning that matter have so decreed,) in recording the decrees of the Roman senate. Tayl. Civil Law, 564, 566
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The tide of the eldest ‘son of the czar and czarina
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The title of the emperor of Rus-sia, first assumed by Basil, the son of Basil-Ides, under whom the Russian power began to appear, abput 1740
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In old English law. A cyrographer; an officer of the bano-us, or court of common bench. Fleta, llb. 2, c. 36.
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That klnd of punlshment used by the anclents, and still used by the Chlnese, called by Staunton the “wooden collnr,” by w’hich the neck of the malefactor is bent or weighed down. Enc. Lond
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As near as [possible.] The rule of cy-prcs is a rule for the construction of instruments in equity, by which the inteu-tion of the party is carried out os near as mag be, when it would be impossible or ille-gal to give it literal efTect. Thus, where a testator attempts to create a perpetuity, the court will endeavor, Instead of making tbe devise entirely void, to explain the will in such a way as to carry out the testator’s gen-eral Intention as far as the rule against per-petuitles wlll allow. So in the case of be-quests to charitable uses; aud particularly where the language used is so vague or un-certalu that the testator’s design must be sought by construction. See 6 Cruise, Dig. 165; 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 532; Taylor v. Keep, 2 111. App. 383; Beekman v. Bonsor. 23 N. Y. 308, 80 Am. Dec. 269; Jackson v. Brown, 13 wend. (N. Y.) 445; Doyle v. whalen, 87
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or CYNE-GILD. The por-tlon belonging to the nation of the mulct for slaying the king, the other portion or were being due to his famlly. Blount
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A mulct andently pald by one who killed another, to the ktndred of tlie deceased. Spelman
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