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Banlshment to a for-eign country, attended wlth confiscation of property and deprlvatlon of civil rlghts. A punishment derlved from the deportatio (q. […]

In old Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old Engllsh law. A specles of wapte by whlch the population of the kingdom was diminished. Depopula-tion of houses was a […]

In practice, one who de-poses (that Is, testifies or makes oath in writing) to the truth of certain facts; one who gives […]

In old Scotch practice. A deponent. 3 How. State Tr. 695 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Spanish-American law. Spaces of ground in towns reserved for com-mons or public pasturage. 12 Pet. 443, note, 9 L Ed. 1150 […]

In Scotch practice. . To de-pose ; to make oath in writing Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Deriving existence, sup-port, or direction from another; conditioned, in respect to force or obligation, upon an extraneous act or fact Source: Black’s […]

In practice. Pending or undetermined; in progress. See 5 Coke, 47 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A robbing of the prince or commonwealth; an embezzling of the public treasure Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A territory distinct from the country in which the supreme sovereign power resides, but belonging right* folly to it, and subject to […]

In old English practice. The ten-ant in a real action, having once appeared, was considered as constructively present in court until again […]

In old English law. To pasture. “If a man depastures unprofitable cattle in his ground.” Bunb. 1, case L Source: Black’s Law […]

1. one of the terrlto-rial divisions of a country. The term is chiefiy used in this sense in France, where the division […]

In maritime law. A Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old Engllsh law. The hedge inclosing a deer park Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In pleading. To forsake or abandon the ground assumed in a former pleading, and assume a new one. See Departure Source: Black’s […]

In old English law. A public notice or summons. Bract. 202b Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

(L. Lat. Deo dandum, a thing to be given to God.) In English law. Any personal chattel which was the Immediate occasion […]

In Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In tbe civil law Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Spanish and Mexican law. A denouncement was a Judicial proceeding, and, though real property might be acquired by an alien in […]

The act of present payment Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In French feudal law. A minute or act drawn up, on the creation of a fief, containing a description of Source: Black’s […]

An act or thing is “de-nounced” when the law declares it a crime and prescribes a punishment for it. State v. De […]