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In Roman law. Criminals who had been marked in the face or on the body with fire or nn iron, so that […]

By “deduction” is under-stood a portion or thing which au heir hns a right to take from the mass of the suc-cession […]

In old Eugllsh prac-tice. A writ, issued by royal authority, empowering an attorney to appear for a defeud-aut. Prior to tlie statute […]

The act of yielding up any-thlug; surrender Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

(Lat. we have given aud granted.) words used by the king, or where there were more gran-tors than one, instead of dedi […]

(we have given power.) In English practice. A writ or commission issuing out of chancery, eni-powering the persons named therein to per-form […]

In real property law. An appropriation of land to some public use, made by the owner, and accepted for such use by […]

The feast of ded-ication of charches, or rather the feast day of the saint and patron of tt church, which was celebrated […]

I have given and granted. The operative words of conveyance in ancient charters of feoffment, and deeds of gift and grant; the […]

To appropriate aud set apart one’s private property to some public use; as to make a private way public by acts evlnciug […]

ln Saxon law. An actual homicide or manslaughter Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

(Lat. x have given.) A word used in deeds and other instruments of con-veyance when such instruments were made iu Latin, and […]

To cry down; to deprive of credlt “The king may at any time decry or cry down any coin of the kingdom, […]

Lat. A decnrion. In the provincial admlnistration of the Roman em-pire, the decurions were tlie chief men or official personages of the […]

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 […]

The act of depriving of a crown Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Spanish colonial law. An order emanating from some superior tribunni, promulgated in the name aud by the au-thority of the sovereign, […]

In tbe civU law. A species of imperial constitution, being a*Judg-meut or sentence given by the emperor upon Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

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

In ecclesiastical law. Letters of the pope, written at the suit or Instance of one or more persons, determining some point br […]

See Decbee; Ob-deb Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A supplemental collection of the canon law, published by Boniface VIII. in 1298, called, also, “Liber Sextus Decretalium,” (Sixth Book of the […]

This term designates a person who is disabled, incapable, or incompe-tent, either from physical or mental weakness or defects, whether produced by […]

In the Roman law. Judlcial sentences given by the emperor as supreme judge Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Scotch law. The final Judgment or sentence of a court Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)