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  • DE HOMINE CAPTO IN WITHERNAM
    (Lat. For taking a man in withernam.) A writ to take a man who had carried away a bondman or bondwoman into another country beyond the reach of a writ of replevin.
  • DE HOMINE REPLEGIANDO
    (Lat For replevying a man:) A writ which lies to replevy a man out of prison, or out of the custody of a private person, upon giving security to the sheriff that the man shall be forthcoming to answer any charge against him. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 66*; 3 Bl. Comm. More...
  • DE IDENTITATE NOMINIS
    A writ which lay for one arrested in a personal action and committed to prison under a mistake as to his identity, the proper defendant hearing the same name. Reg. Orig. 194.
  • DE IDIOTA INQUIRENDO
    An old common-law writ, long obsolete, to inquire whether a man be an idiot or not. 2 Steph. Comm. 609.
  • DE IIS QUI PONENDI SUNT IN ASSISIS
    Of those who are to be put on assises. The title of a statute passed 21 Edw. I. defining the qualifications of jurors. Crabb, Eng. Law, 167, 189 ; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 184.
  • DE INCREMENTO
    Of Increase; in addition. Costs de incremento, or costs of increase, are the costs adjudged by the court in civil actions, in addition to the damages and nominal costs found by the jury. GUb. Com. PI. 260.
  • DE INFIRMITATE
    Of infirmity. The principal essoin in the time of Glanville; afterwards called "de malo." 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 115. See Dx MALO; ESSOIN.
  • DE INGRESSU
    A writ of entry. Reg. Orig. 227b, et seq.
  • DE INJURIA
    Of [his own] wrong. In the technical language of pleading, a replication de injuria is one that may be made in an action of tort where the defendant has admitted the acts complained of, but alleges, in his plea, certain new matter by way of justification or excuse; by this More...
  • DE INOFFICIOSO TESTAMENTO
    Concerning an inofficous or undutiful will. A title of the civil law. Inst. 2, 18.
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