Category: D

the way of getting property that involves pressuring and threatening a person and the property.

Duress by threats. The use of threats and menaces to compel a person, by the fear of death, or grievousbodily harm, as mayhem or loss of limb, to do some lawful act, or to commit amisdemeanor. 1 Bl. Comm. 130; 4 Bl. Comm. 30; 4 Steph. Comm. 83. See METUS.

The technical fault, In pleading, of uniting two or more causes of actionin one count in a writ, or two or more grounds of defense in one plea, or two or morebreaches in a replication, or two or more offenses In the same count, of an indictmentTucker v. State, 6 Tex. App. 253; Waters v. People, 104 111. 547; Mullin v. Blumenthal,1 Pennewill (Del.) 476, 42 Atl. 175; Devino v. Railroad Co., 63 Vt 98, 20 AU. 953;Tucker v. Ladd, 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 452.1

One who subjects another to duress; one who compels another to do a thing, as by menace. Bac. Max. 90, reg. 22.

n. (From Lat dupUcatio, q. v.) In Scotch pleading. The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s replication.

A county palatine in England, the jurisdiction of which was vested in theBishop of Durham until the statute 6 & 7 Wm. IV. c. 19, vested it as a separatefranchise and royalty in the crown. The jurisdiction of the Durham court of pleas wastransferred to the supreme court of judicature by the judicature act of 1S73.

Lat During. A word of limitation in old conveyances. Co. Litt 234&.

In old English law. Blows without wounding or bloodshed; dry blows. Blount.

That which is granted during the absence of the executor and until he has proved the will.

A term used in Hindostan for a passport, permit, or order from tlieEnglish East Indian Company. It generally meant a permit under their seal exemptinggoods from the payment of duties. Euc. Lond.