Banlshment to a for-eign country, attended wlth confiscation of property and deprlvatlon of civil rlghts. A punishment derlved from the deportatio (q. v.) ot the Roman law, and still in use in France
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In old Engllsh law. A specles of wapte by whlch the population of the kingdom was diminished. Depopula-tion of houses was a public offense. 12 Coke, 30, 3L
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In practice, one who de-poses (that Is, testifies or makes oath in writing) to the truth of certain facts; one who gives under oath testimony which is reduced to writing; one who makes oath to a written statement. The party making an affidavit is generally so called
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In old Scotch practice. A deponent. 3 How. State Tr. 695
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In Spanish-American law. Spaces of ground in towns reserved for com-mons or public pasturage. 12 Pet. 443, note, 9 L Ed. 1150
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In Scotch practice. . To de-pose ; to make oath in writing
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Deriving existence, sup-port, or direction from another; conditioned, in respect to force or obligation, upon an extraneous act or fact
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In practice. Pending or undetermined; in progress. See 5 Coke, 47
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A robbing of the prince or commonwealth; an embezzling of the public treasure
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A territory distinct from the country in which the supreme sovereign power resides, but belonging right* folly to it, and subject to the laws and regulations which the sovereign may think prop-er to prescribe. U. S. v. The Nancy, 3 wash. C. C. 286, Fed. Cas. No. 15,854
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In old English practice. The ten-ant in a real action, having once appeared, was considered as constructively present in court until again called upon. Hence if, up-on being demanded, he failed to appear, he was sald to have “departed in despite [i. e., contempt] of the court.”
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In old English law. To pasture. “If a man depastures unprofitable cattle in his ground.” Bunb. 1, case L
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1. one of the terrlto-rial divisions of a country. The term is chiefiy used in this sense in France, where the division of the country Into departments is somewhat analogous, both territorially and for governmental purposes, to the divi-sion of an American state Into counties
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In old Engllsh law. The hedge inclosing a deer park
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In pleading. To forsake or abandon the ground assumed in a former pleading, and assume a new one. See Departure
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In old English law. A public notice or summons. Bract. 202b
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(L. Lat. Deo dandum, a thing to be given to God.) In English law. Any personal chattel which was the Immediate occasion of the death of any reasonable creature, and which was forfeited to the crown to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. 1 Hale, P. C. 419; Fleta, lib. 1, c. 25; 1 Bl. Comm. 300 ; 2 Steph. Comm. 365
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In Spanish and Mexican law. A denouncement was a Judicial proceeding, and, though real property might be acquired by an alien in fraud of the law,—that is, without observing its requirements,—he nevertheless retained his right and title to it, but was liable to be de-prived of it by the proper proceeding of de-nouncement, which in its substantive char-acteristics was equivalent to the Inquest of office found, at common law. De Merle v. Mathews, 26 Cal. 477
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In French feudal law. A minute or act drawn up, on the creation of a fief, containing a description of
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An act or thing is “de-nounced” when the law declares it a crime and prescribes a punishment for it. State v. De Hart, 109 La. 370, 33 South. 605. The word is also used (not technically but popu-larly) as the equivalent of “accuse” or “ln-form against”
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