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  • DE ALLOCATIONE FACIENDA
    Breve. Writ for making an allowance. An old writ directed to the lord treasurer and barons of the exchequer, for allowing certain officers (as collectors of customs) in their accounts certain payments made by them. Reg. Orig. 192.
  • DE ALTO ET BASSO
    Of high and low. A phrase anciently used to denote the absolute submission of all differences to arbitration. CowelL
  • DE AMBITU
    Lat. Concerning bribery-A phrase descriptive of the subject-matter of several of the Roman laws; as the Lex Aufldia, the Lex Pompeia. the Lex Tullia, and others. See AMBITUS.
  • DE AMPLIORI GRATIA
    Of more abundant or especial grace. Townsh. PL 18.
  • DE ANNO BISSEXTILI
    Of the bissextile or leap year. The title of a statute passed In the twenty-first year of Henry III., which in fact however, is nothing more than a sort of writ or direction to the justices of the bench, instructing them how the extraordinary day in the leap year was More...
  • DE ANNUA PENSIONE
    Breve. Writ of annual pension. An ancient writ by which the king, having a yearly pension due him out of an abbey or priory for any of his chaplains, demanded the same of the abbot or prior, for the person named in the writ Reg. Orig. 265b, 307; Fitzh. Nat More...
  • DE ANNUO REDITU
    For a yearly rent. A writ to recover an annuity, no matter how payable, in goods or money. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 258.
  • DE APOSTATA CAPIENDO
    Breve. Writ for taking an apostate. A writ which anciently lay against one who, having entered and professed some order of religion, left it and wandered up and down the country, contrary to the rules of his order, commanding the sheriff to apprehend him and deliver him again to his More...
  • DE ARBITRATIONE FACTA
    (Lat Of arbitration had.) A writ formerly used when an action was brought for a cause which had been settled by arbitration. Wats. Arb. 256.
  • DE ARRESTANDIS BONIS NE DISSIPENTUR
    An old writ which lay to seize goods in the hands of a party during the pendency of a suit, to prevent their being made away with. Reg. Orig. 126b.
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