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  • DE BENE ESSE
    Conditionally; provisionally; in anticipation of . future need. A phrase applied to proceedings wfhich are taken w parte or provisionally, and are allowed to stand as well done for the present, but? which- may be subject to ^future exception or challenge, and must then stand or fall ac-' cording to More...
  • DE BIEN ET DE MAL
    L. Fr. For good and evil. A phrase by which a party accused of a crime anciently put himself upon a jury, indicating his entire submission to their verdict
  • DE BIENS LE MORT
    L. Fr. Of the goods of the deceased. Dyer, 32.
  • DE BIGAMIS
    Concerning men twice married. The title of tbe statute 4 Edw. I. St. 3; so called from the initial words of' the fifth chapter. 2 Inst. 272 : 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 142
  • DE BONE MEMORIE
    L. Fr. Of good, memory; of sound mind. 2 Inst 510.
  • DE BONIS ASPORTATIS
    For goods taken away; for taking away goods. The action of trespass for taking personal property is technically called "trespass de bonis, asportatis." 1 Tidd, Pr. 5.
  • DE BONIS NON
    An abbreviation of De bonis non administratis, (q. v.) 1 Strange, 34.
  • DE BONIS NON ADMINISTRATIS
    Of the goods not administered. When ant administrator is appointed to succeed another, who has left the estate partially unsettled, he Is said to be granted "admlnistra-i tion de bonis non;" that is, of the goods not already administered.
  • DE BONIS NON AMOVENDIS
    Writ for not removing goods. A writ anciently directed to the sheriffs of London, commanding them, in cases where a writ of error was brought by a defendant against whom a. Judgment was recovered, to see that his goods and chattels were safely kept without being removed, while the error More...
  • DE BONIS PROPRIIS
    Of his own goods. The technical name of a judgment against an administrator or executor to be satisfied from his own property, and not from the estate of the deceased, as in casea where he has been .guilty of a devustaxik at of a false plea of plene administravU. >
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