Category: D

In the civil law. The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s replication ;corresponding to the rejoinder of the common law.Duplicationem possibilitatis lex non patitnr. The law does not allow the doubling of apossibility. 1 Rolle, 321.

In old records. A bank of earth cast up; the side of a ditch. Cowell.

Double right Bract, fol. 2836. See DBOIT-DROIT.

While the offense was fresh. A term employed in the old law of appeal of rape. Bract, fol. 147.

The trial by battel or judicial combat. See BATTEL.

While sole, or single. Dum sola fucrit, while she shallremain sole. Dum sola et casta vix- crit. while she lives single and chaste. Words oflimitation in old conveyances. Co. Litt. 235

Certain payments; rates or taxes. See Ward v. Joslin, 105 Fed. 227, 44 C. C.A. 456; Warwick v. Supreme Conclave, 107 Ga. 115, 32 S. E. 951; Whitman v. NationalBank, 176 U. S. 559, 20 Sup. Ct 477, 44 L. Ed. 587.

One who cannot speak; a person who is mute.

In English law, Is a title of nobility, ranking immediately next to the Prince ofWales. It is only a title of dignity. Conferring it does not give any domain, territory, orjurisdiction over the place whence the title is taken. Duchess, the consort of a duke.Wharton.

In sales at auction, when the minimum amount which the ownerwill take for the article is written on a piece of paper, and placed by the owner under acandlestick, or other thing, and it is agreed that no bidding shall avail unless equal tothat, this is called “dumb-bidding.” Bab. Auct. 44.