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  • DE MANUTENENDO
    Writ of maintenance. A writ which lay against a person for the offense of maintenance. Reg. Orig. 189, 182b.
  • DE MEDIETATE LINGUAE
    Of the half tongue; half of one tongue and half of another. This phrase describes that species of jury which, at common law, was allowed! in both civil and criminal cases where one of the parties was an alien, not speaking or understanding English. It was composed of six English More...
  • DE MEDIO
    A writ In the nature of a writ of right, which lay where upon a subinfeudation the mesne (or middle) lord suffered his under-tenant or tenant paravail to be distrained upon by the lord paramount for the rent due him from the mesne lord. Booth, Real Act. 136.
  • DE MELIORIBUS DAMNIS
    Of or for the better damages. A term used in practice to denote the election by a plaintiff against which of several defendants (where the damages have been assessed separately) he will take judgment 1 Arch. Pr. K. B. 219; Knickerbacker v. Colver, 8 Cow. (N. Y.) UL
  • DE MERCATORIBUS
    ''Concerning merchants." The name of a statute passed in the eleventh year of Edw. I. (1233,) more commonly called the "Statute of Acton Bur-nel," authorizing the recognizance by statute merchant See 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 160-162 ; 2 BL Comm. 161. Be minimis non enrat las. The law does not More...
  • DE MINIS
    Writ of threats. A writ which lay where a person was threatened with personal violence, or the destruction of his property, to compel the offender to keep the peace. Reg. Orig. 88b, 89; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 79, G, 80.
  • DE MITTENDO TENOREM RECORDL
    A writ to send the tenor of a record, or to exemplify It under the great seal. Reg. Orig. 220b.
  • DE MODERATA MISERICORDIA CAPIENDA
    Writ for taking a moderate amercement A writ founded on Magna Charta, (c. i4,) which lay for one who was excessively amerced in a court not of record, directed to the lord of the court or his ball iff, commanding him to take a moderate amercement of the party. Reg. More...
  • DE MODO DECIMANDI
    Of a modus of tithing. A term applied in English ecclesiastical law to a prescription to have a special manner of tithing. 2 Bl. Comm. 29; 3 Steph. Comm. 130. De molendino de novo ereeto non. jaeet prohlbitio. Cro. Jac. 429. A prohibition lies not against a newly-erected mill. De More...
  • DE NATIVO HABENDO
    A writ which lay for a lord directed to the sheriff, commanding him to apprehend a fugitive villein, and restore him, with all his chattels, to the lord. Reg. Orig. 87; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 77. Do nomine proprio non est eurandum cum in substantia non erretur; quia nomina mutabUia sunt, More...
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