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Decapitation
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DecapitationPunishment. The punishment of putting a person to death by taking off his head.
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Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Death
Cessation of life; extinction of political existence.
Taking
1) English law. The union of securities given at different times, so as to prevent any intermediate purchasers claiming title to redeem, or otherwise discharge one lien, which is prior, without redeeming or discharging other liens also, which are subsequent to his own title. 2) Crim. torts. The act of laying hold upon an article, with or without removing the same; a felonious taking is not sufficient without a carrying away, to constitute the crime of larceny.
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Debitum in pręsenti, solvendum in futuro
An obligation existing in the present, dischargeable in the future.
Debitum sine brevi
Debt without a writ or declaration. Abbreviated d.s.b.
Debt
Whatever one owes. A sum of money due by certain and express agreement.
Debtee
One to whom a debt is due a creditor, as, debtee executor.
Debtor
Debtor or obligor. The person who has engaged to perform some obligation. The word obligor, in its more technical signification, is applied to designate one who makes a bond.
Decapitation
Decedent
In the acts of descent and distribution in Pennsylvania, this word is frequently used for a deceased person, testate or intestate.
Deceit
Any devise or false representation by which one man misleads another to his injury. Formerly, the remedy was a "writ of deceit"; now, unless otherwise provided by statute, it is by an "action of trespass on the case". The defendant or his agent must have been guilty of some moral wrong; legal fraud alone will not support the action.
Decem tales
Practice. In the English law this is a writ which gives to the sheriff apponere decem tales.
Decennary
English law. A town or tithing, consisting originally of ten families of freeholders.
Decies tantum
English law. The name of an obsolete writ which formerly lay against a juror who had taken money for giving his verdict; called so, because it was sued out to recover from him ten times as much as he took.
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Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Death
Cessation of life; extinction of political existence.
Taking
1) English law. The union of securities given at different times, so as to prevent any intermediate purchasers claiming title to redeem, or otherwise discharge one lien, which is prior, without redeeming or discharging other liens also, which are subsequent to his own title. 2) Crim. torts. The act of laying hold upon an article, with or without removing the same; a felonious taking is not sufficient without a carrying away, to constitute the crime of larceny.
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Debitum in pręsenti, solvendum in futuro
An obligation existing in the present, dischargeable in the future.
Debitum sine brevi
Debt without a writ or declaration. Abbreviated d.s.b.
Debt
Whatever one owes. A sum of money due by certain and express agreement.
Debtee
One to whom a debt is due a creditor, as, debtee executor.
Debtor
Debtor or obligor. The person who has engaged to perform some obligation. The word obligor, in its more technical signification, is applied to designate one who makes a bond.
Decapitation
Decedent
In the acts of descent and distribution in Pennsylvania, this word is frequently used for a deceased person, testate or intestate.
Deceit
Any devise or false representation by which one man misleads another to his injury. Formerly, the remedy was a "writ of deceit"; now, unless otherwise provided by statute, it is by an "action of trespass on the case". The defendant or his agent must have been guilty of some moral wrong; legal fraud alone will not support the action.
Decem tales
Practice. In the English law this is a writ which gives to the sheriff apponere decem tales.
Decennary
English law. A town or tithing, consisting originally of ten families of freeholders.
Decies tantum
English law. The name of an obsolete writ which formerly lay against a juror who had taken money for giving his verdict; called so, because it was sued out to recover from him ten times as much as he took.
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