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Decime
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DecimeA French coin, of the value of a tenth part of a franc, or nearly two cents.
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Coin
Commerce, contracts. A piece of gold, silver or other metal stamped by authority of the government, in order to determine its value, commonly called money.
Value
Common law. This term has two different meanings. It sometimes expresses the utility of an object, and some times the power of purchasing other good with it. The first may be called value in use, the latter value in exchange.
Franc
Comercial. law. The name of a French coin. Five franc pieces, when not of less fineness than ten ounces and sixteen pennyweights in twelve ounces troy weight of standard silver, and weighing not less than three hundred and eighty-four grains each, are made a legal tender, at the rate of ninety-three cents each. In all computations at the custom house, the franc of France and of Belgium shall be estimated at eighteen cents six. mills.
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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.
Decimation
The punishment of every tenth soldier by lot, was, among the Romans, called decimation.
Decision
Practice. A judgment given by a competent tribunal. The French lawyers call the opinions which they give on questions propounded to them, decisions.
Decisum
Latin. Cut off, settled, decided; a decision, a precedent.
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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.
Decimation
The punishment of every tenth soldier by lot, was, among the Romans, called decimation.
Decime
Decision
Practice. A judgment given by a competent tribunal. The French lawyers call the opinions which they give on questions propounded to them, decisions.
Decisum
Latin. Cut off, settled, decided; a decision, a precedent.
Declarant
One who makes a declaration.
Declaration of intention
The act of an alien, who goes before a court of record, and in a forma manner declares that it is, bona fide, his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, whereof he may at the time be a citizen or subject.
Declaration of trust
The act by which an individual acknowledges that a property, the title of which he holds, does in fact belong to another, for whose use he holds the same. The instrument in which the acknowledgment is made, is also called a declaration of trust; but such a declaration is not always in writing, though it is highly proper it should be so.
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Coin
Commerce, contracts. A piece of gold, silver or other metal stamped by authority of the government, in order to determine its value, commonly called money.
Value
Common law. This term has two different meanings. It sometimes expresses the utility of an object, and some times the power of purchasing other good with it. The first may be called value in use, the latter value in exchange.
Franc
Comercial. law. The name of a French coin. Five franc pieces, when not of less fineness than ten ounces and sixteen pennyweights in twelve ounces troy weight of standard silver, and weighing not less than three hundred and eighty-four grains each, are made a legal tender, at the rate of ninety-three cents each. In all computations at the custom house, the franc of France and of Belgium shall be estimated at eighteen cents six. mills.
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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.
Decimation
The punishment of every tenth soldier by lot, was, among the Romans, called decimation.
Decision
Practice. A judgment given by a competent tribunal. The French lawyers call the opinions which they give on questions propounded to them, decisions.
Decisum
Latin. Cut off, settled, decided; a decision, a precedent.
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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.
Decimation
The punishment of every tenth soldier by lot, was, among the Romans, called decimation.
Decime
Decision
Practice. A judgment given by a competent tribunal. The French lawyers call the opinions which they give on questions propounded to them, decisions.
Decisum
Latin. Cut off, settled, decided; a decision, a precedent.
Declarant
One who makes a declaration.
Declaration of intention
The act of an alien, who goes before a court of record, and in a forma manner declares that it is, bona fide, his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, whereof he may at the time be a citizen or subject.
Declaration of trust
The act by which an individual acknowledges that a property, the title of which he holds, does in fact belong to another, for whose use he holds the same. The instrument in which the acknowledgment is made, is also called a declaration of trust; but such a declaration is not always in writing, though it is highly proper it should be so.
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