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