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  • DABIS? DABO
    Lat. (Will you give?. I will give.) In the Roman! law. One of the forms of making a verbal stipulation. Inst. 3, 15, 1; Bract, fol. 15ft. 1
  • DACION
    In Spanish law. The real and effective delivery of an object in the execution of a contract
  • DAGGE
    A kind of gun. 1 How. State Tr. 1124, 1125.
  • DAGUS, OR DAIS
    The raised floor at the upper end of a hall.
  • DAILY
    Every day; every day in the week; every day in the week except one. A newspaper which is published six, days in each week is a "daily" newspaper. Richardson v. Tobin, 45 Cal. 30; Tribune Pub. Co. v. Duluth, 45 Minn. 27, 47 N. W. 309; King: man v. Waugh, More...
  • DAKER, OR DIKER
    Ten hides. Blount
  • DALE AND SALE
    Fictitious names of places, used in the English books, as exanir pies. "The manor of Dale and the manor of Sale, lying both in Vale."
  • DALUS, DAILUS, DAILIA
    A certain measure of land; such narrow slips of pasture as are left between the plowed furrows in arable land. Cowell. .
  • DAM
    A construction of wood, stone, or other materials, made across a stream fof the purpose of penning back the waters. This word is used In two different senses. It properly means the work or structure, raised to obstruct the flow of the water in a river; but, by a well-settled More...
  • DAMAGE
    Loss, injury, or deterioration, caused by the negligence, design, or accident of one person to another, in respect of the latter's person or property. The word Is to be distinguished from its plural,-"damages,"-which means a compensation in money for a loss or damage. An injury produces a right in them More...
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