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Lat. lu old English law. Decrease of the sea; the re-ceding of the sea from the land. Callis, Sew-ers, (53.) 65. See […]

To inveigle, entice, tempt, or lure; as, to decoy a person within the ju-risdiction of a court so that he may be […]

In old English and Scotch law. Decollation; the punishment of beheading. Fleta, lib. 1, e. 21, $ 6 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

In French law. A name formerly given to those persons who died Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The act of boiling a sub-stance in water, for extracting its virtues. Also the liquor in which a substance has been boiled; […]

In the Roman law. A bankrupt; a spendthrift; a squanderer of public funds. Calvin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In English practice. The plea of sanctuary, or of benefit of clergy, before trial or conviction. 2 Hale, P. C. 236 ; […]

In Scotch practice. An objection to the jurisdiction of a judge. Belt Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Scotch law. A plea to the jurisdiction, on the ground that the judge is interested in the suit Source: Black’s Law […]

* In French law. Pleas to the jurisdiction of the court; also of lis pendens, and of connexitd, (q. v Source: Black’s […]

Explanatory; deslgn-ed to fix or elucidate what before was un-certain or doubtful Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To solemnly assert a fact before witnesses, e. g., where a testator declares a paper signed by him to be his last […]

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

In Scotch law. An action whereby it is sought to have some right of property, or of status, or other right judicially […]

In the civil law. where one of the parties to a suit, not heing able to prove his charge, offered to refer […]

A person who makes a declaration Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A French coin of the value of the tenth part of a franc, or nearly two cents Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In practice. A judgment or decree pronounced by a court in settlement of a controversy submitted to it and Source: Black’s Law […]

In ecclesiastical law. Tenths, or tlthes. The tenth part of the annual profit of each living, payable formerly to the pope. There […]

The punishing every tenth soldier by lot, for mutiny or other fa 11-ure of duty, was termed “decimatio Icgio-nis” by the Romans. […]

To decide includes the power and right to deliberate, to weigh the rea-sons for and against, to see which pre-ponderate. and to […]

(Ten. times as tnueh.) The name of an anclent writ that was used against a juror who had taken a bribe in […]

In Scotch law. To decree. “Decernlt and ordainlt.” 1 How. State Tr. 927. “Decerns.” Shaw, 16 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In the civU and old English Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat one who held one-half a virgnte of land. Du Cange, one of the ten freeholders in a decennary. Id. ; Calvin. […]