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It is given to th,e more worthy. 2 Veut. 2G8

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

An immediate female de-scendaut. People v. Kaiser, 119 Cal. 456, 51 Pac. 702. May include the issue of a daughter. Buchanan v. Lloyd, 88 Md. 462. 41 Atl. 1075; Jamison v. Hay. 40 Mo. 546. May designate a natural or Illegitimate fe-male child. State v. Laurence, 95 N. C., 659

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

VE. A word derived from the Ito-man law, signifying “appointed by public authority.” Thus, in Scotland, nn executor-dative is an executor appointed by a court of Justice, corresponding to an English administrator. Mozley & “Whitley

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

A first principle; a thiug given; a date

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

In the civil law. A giving, or act of giving. Datio in solutum; a giving in payment; a species of accord and satisfac-tion. Called, in modern law, “dation.”

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

In the civil law. A gift; a giving of something. It is not exactly syn-onymous with “donation,” for the latter ira-plies generosity or liberality iu making a gift, while dation may mean the giving of something to which the recipient is already entitled

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

The specification or mention, in a written instrument, of the time (day and year) when it was made. Also the time so specified

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

In French law. A deed is said to have a date certaine (fixed date) when it has been subjected to the for-mality of registration; after this formality has been complied with, the parties to the deed cannot by mutual consent change the date thereof. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law. 555

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

L. Fr. Last

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In old practice and conveyancing. The date of a deed; the time when it was given; that Is, executed

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To give away in fee, or forever

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To clear a legal account; to answer an accusation; to settle a contro-versy

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A steward either of a king or lord. Spelman

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Lat. In the clvil law. To trans-fer property, when this transfer is made in order to discharge a debt, it is datio sol-vendi animo; when in order to receive an equivalent, to create an obligation, it is datio contrahendi animo; lastly, when made donandi animo, from mere liberality, it is a gift, dono datio

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

The act of lending money on usury

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

In Spanish law. Damage; the deterioration, injury, or destruction which a man suffers with respect to bis person or his property by the fault (culpa) of another, white, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 19, e. 3, § L

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

Jeopardy; exposure to loss or injury; peril. U. S. v. Mays, 1 Idaho, 770

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

In old English law. 4 money payment made by forest-tenants, that they might have liberty to plow nud sow in time of pannage, or mast feeding

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

A tribute of Is. and afterwards of 2s. uf>on every hide of laud through the realm, levied by the An-glo-Saxons, for maiutalulug such a number of forces as were thought sufficient to clear the British seas of Danish pirates, who greatly anuoyed their coasts. It continued a tax until the time of Stephen, and was one of the rights of the crown, whartoh

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

A system of laws intro-duced by the Danes on thelr invasion nnd conquest of England, and which was principally maintained in some of the midland counties, and also on the eastern coast. 1 BL Comm. 65: 4 Bl. Comm. 411: 1 Stenh. Comm. 42

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Lat. In tbe civU law. Damage; the loss or diminution of what is a man’s own. either by fraud, carelessness, or accident

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

Loss, hurt, or harm without injury in the legal sense, that is, withont such an invasion of rights as is redressible by an action. A loss which does not give rise to an action of damages against the person causing it; as where a person blocks up the windows of a new house overlooking hls land, or injures a person’s trade by setting up an estnblish-ment of the same kind in the neighborhood. Broom, Com. Law, 75; Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 164, 2 L. Ed. 60; west Virginia Transp* Co. v. Standard 011 Co., 50 W. Va. 611, 40 S. E. 591, 56 L. R. A. 804, 88 Am. St. Rep. 895; Irwin v. Askew, 74 Ga. 581; Chase v. Silverstone, 62 Me. 175, 16 Am. Rep

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

To cause damage or Inju-rlous loss to a persou or put him in a posi-tion where he must sustain lt. A surety is “damnified” when a judgment has been ob-tained against him. McLean v. Bank. 16 Fed. Cas. 278

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

’ Tn the civil law. A losing inherttnuce; an iuheritauce that was a charge, Instead of a benefit. Dig. 50, 16, 119

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An action given by the civil law for the damage done

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