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  • DE DECEPTIONE
    A writ of deceit which lay against one who acted in the name of another whereby the latter was damnified and deceived. Reg. Orig. 112.
  • DE DEONERANDA PRO RATA PORTIONIS
    A writ that lay where one was distrained for rent that ought to be paid by others proportionably with him. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 234; Termes de la Ley.
  • DE DIE IN DIEM
    From day to day. Bract fol. 205b.
  • DE DIVERSIS REGULUS JURIS ANTIQUI
    Of divers rules of the ancient law. A celebrated title of the Digests, and the last in that collection. It consists of two hundred and eleven rules or maxims. Dig. 50, 17.
  • DE DOLO MALO
    Of or founded upon fraud. Dig. 4, 3. See ACTIO DE DOLO MALO.
  • DE DOMO REPARANDA
    A writ which lay for one tenant in common to compel his co-tenant to contribute towards the repair of the common property.
  • DE DONIS
    Concerning gifts, (or more fully, de donis conditionalibus, concerning conditional gifts.) The name of a celebrated English statute, passed in the thirteenth year of Edw. I., and constituting the first chapter of the statute of Westm. 2, by virtue of which estates in fee-simple conditional (formerly known as "dona conditionalia") More...
  • DE DOTE ASSIGNANDA
    Writ for assigning dower. A writ which lay for the widow of a tenant in capite, commanding the king's escheater to cause her dower to be assigned to her. Reg. Orig. 297; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 263, C
  • DE DOTE UNDE NIHIL HABET
    A writ of dower which lay for a widow where no part of her dower had been assigned to her. It is now much disused; but a form closely resembling it is still sometimes used in the United States. 4 Kent Comm. 63; Stearns, Real Act 302; 1 Washb. Real More...
  • DE EJECTIONE CUSTODIAE
    A writ which lay for a guardian who had been forcibly ejected from his wardship. Reg. Orig. 162.
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