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  • DENARIATE
    In old English law. As much land as is worth one penny per annum.
  • DENARII
    An ancient general term for any sort of pecunia numerata, or ready money. The French use the word "denier9* in the same sense,-payer de ses propres de-niers. -Denarii de earitate. In English law. Customary oblations made to a cathedral church a,t Pentecost.-Denarii S. Petri. (Commonly called "Peter's Pence.") An annual More...
  • DENARIUS
    The chief silver coin among the Romans, worth 8d.; it was the seventh part of a Roman ounce. Also an English penny. The denarius was first coined five years before the first Punic war, B. C. 269. In later times a copper coin was called "de-nariu8." Smith, Diet. Antiq. -Denarius More...
  • DENIAL
    A traverse in the pleading of one party of an allegation of fact set up by the other; a defense. See Flack v. O'Brien, 19 Misc. Rep. 399, 43 N. Y. Supp. 854; Mott T. Baxter, 29 Colo. 418, 68 Pac. 220. General and specific. In code pleading, a general More...
  • DENIER
    L. Fr. In old English law. Denial; refusal. Denier is when the rent, (being demanded upon the land) is not paid. Finch, Law, b. 3, c. 5.
  • DENIER A DIEU
    In French law. Earnest money; a sum of money given in token of the completion of a bargain. The phrase is a translation of the Latin Denarius Dei, [g. v.)
  • DENIZATION
    The act of making one a denizen; the conferring of the privileges of citizenship upon an alien born. Cro. Jac. 540. See DENIZEN.
  • DENIZE
    To make a man a denizen or citizen.
  • DENIZEN
    In English law. A person who, being an alien born, has obtained, ex donatione regis, letters patent to make him an English subject,-a high and incommunicable branch of the royal prerogative. A denizen is in a kind of middle state -between an alien and a natural-born subject, and partakes of More...
  • DENMAN'S (LORD) ACT
    An English statute, for the amendment of the law of evidence, (6 A 7 Vict c. 85,) which provides that no person offered as a witness shall thereafter be excluded by reason of incapacity, from crime or interest, from giving evidence.
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