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  • D. S.
    An abbreviation for "Deputy Sheriff."
  • D. S. B.
    An abbreviation for debitum sine brevi,. or debit sans breve. Da ? ton dam tna sunt, post mortem tunc tma non sunt. 3 Bulst. 18. Give the things 'which are yours whilst they are yours; after death'they are not yours.
  • DABIS? DABO
    Lat. (Will you give?. I will give.) In the Roman! law. One of the forms of making a verbal stipulation. Inst. 3, 15, 1; Bract, fol. 15ft. 1
  • DACION
    In Spanish law. The real and effective delivery of an object in the execution of a contract
  • DAGGE
    A kind of gun. 1 How. State Tr. 1124, 1125.
  • DAGUS, OR DAIS
    The raised floor at the upper end of a hall.
  • DAILY
    Every day; every day in the week; every day in the week except one. A newspaper which is published six, days in each week is a "daily" newspaper. Richardson v. Tobin, 45 Cal. 30; Tribune Pub. Co. v. Duluth, 45 Minn. 27, 47 N. W. 309; King: man v. Waugh, More...
  • DAKER, OR DIKER
    Ten hides. Blount
  • DALE AND SALE
    Fictitious names of places, used in the English books, as exanir pies. "The manor of Dale and the manor of Sale, lying both in Vale."
  • DALUS, DAILUS, DAILIA
    A certain measure of land; such narrow slips of pasture as are left between the plowed furrows in arable land. Cowell. .
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