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  • DEBET ET DETINET
    He owes and detains. Words anciently used in the original writ, More...
  • DEBET ET SOLET
    (Lat He owes and is used to.) Where a man sues in a writ of right or to recover any right of which he is for the first time disseised, as of a suit at a mill or in case of a writ of quod permittat he brings his writ More...
  • DEBIT
    A sum charged as due or owing. The term is used in book-keeping to denote the charging of a person or an account with all that is supplied to or paid out for him or for the subject of the account
  • DEBITA FUNDI
    L. Lat. In Scotch law. Debts secured upon land. Ersk. Inst "4, 1, 11."
  • DEBITA LAICORUM
    L. Lat. In old English law. Debts of the laity, or of lay persons. Debts recoverable In the civil courts were anciently so called. Crabb, Eng. Law, 107. Behdta sequuntur personam debitoris. Debts follow the person of the debtor; that Is, they have no locality, and may be collected wherever More...
  • DEBITOR
    In the civil and old English law. A debtor. Bebitor non prsesumitur donare. A debtor is not presumed to make a gift. Whatever disposition he makes of his property is supposed to be in satisfaction of his debts. 1 Karnes, Eq. 212. Where a debtor gives money or goods, or More...
  • DEBITRIX
    A female debtor.
  • DEBITUM
    Something due, or owing; a debt. BebUum et contractus sunt nullius loci. Debt and contract are of [belong to] no place; have no particular locality. The obligation in these cases is purely personal, and actions to enforce, it may be brought anywhere. 2 Inst 231; Story, Confl. Laws, | 362; More...
  • DEBITUM IN PRAESENTI SOLVENDUM IN FUTURO
    A debt or obligation complete when contracted, but of which the performance cannot be required till some future period.
  • DEBITUM SINE BREVI
    L. Lat. Debt without writ; debt without a declaration. In old practice, this term denoted an action toegun by original bill, instead of by writ In modern usage, it is sometimes applied to a debt evidenced by confession of judgment without suit The equivalent Norman-French phrase was "debit sons breve." More...
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