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  • DEMEASE
    In old English law. Death.
  • DEMEMBRATION
    In Scotch law. Maliciously cutting off or otherwise separating one limb from another. 1 Hume, 323; Bell.
  • DEMENS
    One whose mental faculties are enfeebled; one who has lost his mind; distinguishable from amens, one totally insane. 4 Coke, 128.
  • DEMENTED
    Of unsound mind.
  • DEMENTENANT EN AVANT
    L. Fr. From this time forward. Kelham.
  • DEMENTIA
    See INSANITY.
  • DEMESNE
    Domain; dominical; held in one's own right, and not of a superior; not allotted to tenants. In the language of pleading, own; proper ; original. Thus, son assault demesne, his own assault, his assault originally or in the first place. -Ancient demesne, see ANCIENT.-Demesne as of fee. A man is More...
  • DEMI
    French. Half; the half. Used chiefly In composition. As to demi "Mark," "Official," "Vill," see those titles.
  • DEMI-SANGUE, OR DEMY-SANGUE
    Half-blood.
  • DEMIDIETAS
    In old records. A half or moiety.
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