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  • DENMAN'S (MR.) ACT
    An English statute, for the amendment of procedure in criminal trials, (28 A 29 Vict. c. 18,) allowing counsel to sum up the evidence in criminal as In civil trials, provided the prisoner be defended by counsel.
  • DENOMBREMENT
    In French feudal law. A minute or act drawn up, on the creation of a fief, containing a description of the fief, and all the rights and Incidents belonging to it. Guyot Inst Feud. c. 3. Denominatio fieri debet a dlgnioribus. Denomination should be made from the more worthy.
  • DENOUNCE
    An act or thing is "denounced" when the law declares it a crime and prescribes a punishment for it State v. De Hart, 109 La. 570, 33 South. 605. The word is also used (not technically but popularly) as the equivalent of "accuse** or "inform against"
  • DENOUNCEMENT
    In Spanish and Mexican law. A denouncement was a judicial proceeding, and, though real property might be acquired by an alien In fraud of the law,-that is, without observing its requirements,-be nevertheless retained his right and title to it, but was liable to be deprived of It by the proper More...
  • DENSHIRING OF LAND
    (Otherwise called "burn-beating.") A method of improving land by casting parings of earth, turf, and stubble into heaps, which when dried are burned into ashes for a compost Cowell.
  • DENUMERATION
    The act of present payment.
  • DENUNCIA DE OBRA NUEVA
    In Spanish law. The denouncement of a new work; being a proceeding to restrain the erection of some new work, as, for instance, a building which may, if completed, Injuriously affect the property of the complainant; it is of a character similar to the interdicts of possession. Escriche; Von Schmidt More...
  • DENUNCIATION
    In the civil law. The act by which an Individual informs a public officer, whose duty it is to prosecute offenders, that a crime has been committed. In Scotch practice. The act by which a person is declared to be a rebel, who has disobeyed the charge given on letters More...
  • DENUNTIATIO
    In old English law. A public notice or summons. Bract 202b.
  • DEODAND
    (L. Lat. Deo dandum, & thing to be given to God.) In English law. Any personal chattel which was the immediate occasion of the death of any reasonable creature, and which was forfeited to the 'crown to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. More...
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