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In old English law. To deny, or keep from one Difforciare rectum, to deny justice to any one, after having been required to do it. … [Read more...] about DIFFORCIARE

Literally, this signifies the injury done to a building by taking stones from it; but in its figurative, which is also its technical sense, it means the waste committed or permitted upon a building. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition A species of ecclesiastical waste which occurs whenever the incumbent suffers any edifices of his ecclesiastical living to go to ruin … [Read more...] about DILAPIDATION

In the civil law. Diminution; a taking away; loss or deprivation. Diminutio capitis, loss of status or condition. See CAPITIS DIMINUTIO. … [Read more...] about DIMINUTIO

Second marriage; marriage to a second wife after the death of the first, as "bigamy," in law,, is having two wives at once. Originally, a man who married a widow, or married again after the death of his wife, was said to be guilty of bigamy. Co. Litt. 40b, note, … [Read more...] about DIGAMA OR DIGAMY

Tending or intended to cause delay or to gain time or to put off a decision.. Dilatory defense. In chancery practice; One the object of which is to dismiss, suspend, or obstruct the suit, without touching the merits, until the impediment or obstacle insisted on Shall be removed. 3 Bl. Comm. 301, 302. Dilatory pleas. A class of defenses at common law, founded on some matter of … [Read more...] about DILATORY