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  • DE CLERICO ADMITTENDO
    See ADMITTENDO CLERICO.
  • DE CLERICO CAPTO PER STATUTUM MERCATORIUM DELIBERANDO
    Writ for delivering a clerk arrested on a statute merchant. A writ for the delivery of a clerk out of prison, who had been taken and imprisoned upon the breach of a statute merchant. Reg. Orig. 147b.
  • DE CLERICO CONVICTO DELIBERANDO
    See CLERICO CONVICTO, etc.
  • DE CLERICO INFRA SACROS ORDINES CONSTITUTO NON ELIGENDO IN OFFICIUM
    See CLERICO INFRA SACROS, etc.
  • DE CLERO
    Concerning the clergy. The title of the statute 25 Edw. III. St 3; containing a variety of provisions on the subject of presentations, indictments of spiritual persons, and the like. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 378.
  • DE COMBUSTIONE DOMORUM
    Of house burning. One of the kinds of appeal formerly in use in England. Bract foL 146b; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 88.
  • DE COMMUNI DIVIDUNDO
    For dividing a thing held In common. The name of an action given by the civil law. Mackeld. Rom. Law, ( 499.
  • DE COMON DROIT
    L. Fr. Of common right; that is, by the common law. Co. Litt 142a.
  • DE COMPUTO
    Writ of account A writ commanding a defendant to render a reasonable account to the plaintiff, or show cause to the contrary. Reg. Orig. 135-138; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 117, E. The foundation of the modern action of account
  • DE CONCILIO CURIAE
    By the advice (or direction) of the court
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