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  • DE TEMPORE CUJUS CONTRARIUM MEMORIA HOMINUM NON EXISTIT
    From time whereof the memory of man does not exist to the contrary. Litt | 170.
  • DE TEMPORE IN TEMPUS ET AD OMNIA TEMPORA
    From time to time, and at all times. Townsh. PI. 17.
  • DE TEMPS DONT MEMORIE NE COURT
    L. Fr. From time whereof memory runneth not; time out of memory of man. Litt || 143, 145, 170.
  • DE TESTAMENTIS
    Of testaments. The title of the fifth part of the Digests or Pandects; comprising the twenty-eighth to the thirty-sixth books, both inclusive.
  • DE THEOLONIO
    A writ which lay for a person who was prevented from taking toll. Reg. Orig. 103.
  • DE TRANSGRESSIONE
    A writ Of trespass. Reg. Orig. 92.
  • DE TRANSGRESSIONE, AD AUDIENDUM ET TERMINANDUM
    A writ or commission for the hearing and determining any outrage or misdemeanor.
  • DE UNA PARTE
    A deed de una parte is one where only one party grants, gives, or binds himself to do a thing to another. It differs from a deed inter partes, (q. v.) 2 Bouv. Inst no. 2001.
  • DE UXORE RAPTA ET ABDUCTA
    A writ which lay where a man's wife had been ravished and carried away. A species of writ of trespass. Reg. Orig. 97; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 89, O; 3 Bl. Comm. 139.
  • DE VASTO
    Writ of waste. A writ which might be brought by him who had the immediate estate of Inheritance in reversion or remainder, against the tenant for life, in dower, by curtesy, or for years, where the latter had committed waste in lands; calling upon the tenant to appear and show More...
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