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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...

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 the status of both of these. 1 Bl. Comm. 374; 7 Coke, 6. The term is used to signify a person who, being an alien by birth, has obtained letters patent making him an English subject. The king may denize, but not naturalize, a man; the latter requiring the consent of parliament, as under the naturalization act, 1870, (33 & 34 Vict c. 14.) A denizen holds a position midway between an alien and a natural-born or naturalized subject, being able to take lands by purchase or devise, (which an alien could not until 1870 do,) but not able to take lands by descent, (which a natural-born or naturalized subject may do.) Brown. The word Is also used in this sense in South Carolina. See McClenaghan v. Mc-Clenaghan, 1 Strob. Eq. (S. C.) 319, 47 Am. Dec. 532. A denizen, in the primary, but obsolete, sense of the word, is a natural-born subject of a country. Co. Litt. 129a. Less...
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.

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. Less...
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.

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. Less...
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.

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. Less...
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"

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" Less...
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...

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 proceeding of denouncement, which in its substantive characteristics was equivalent to the Inquest of office found, at common law. De Merle v. Mathews, 26 Cal. 477. The "denouncement of a new work" is a proceeding to obtain an order of court, in the nature of an injunction, against the construction of a new building or other work, which, if completed, would injuriously alTect the plain tiffs property. Von Schmidt v. Huntington, 1 Cal. 55. In Mexican mining law. Denouncement is an application to the authorities for a grant of the right to work a mine, either on the ground of new discovery, or on the ground of forfeiture of the rights of a former owner, through abandonment or contravention of the mining law. Cent. Diet See Castillero v. U. S., 2 Black, 109, 17 L. Ed. 360. Less...
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.

(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. Less...
DENUMERATION
The act of present payment.

The act of present payment. Less...
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...

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 v. Huntington, 1 Cal. 63. Less...
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...

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 of horning. Bell. Less...

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