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That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning. … [Read more...] about DIALECTICS

A testator; one, who devises his real estate. 2. As a general rule all persons who. may sell an estate may devise it. The disabilities of devisors may be classed, in three divisions. 1. Infancy. In some of the United States this disability is partially removed; in Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi and Ohio, an unmarried woman at the age of eighteen years may devise. 2. Coverture. … [Read more...] about DEVISOR

A rhetorical figure in which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point Enc. Lond. … [Read more...] about DIALLAGE

Duty. It is used in the statute of 2 Ric. II., c. 3, in the sense of duties or customs. … [Read more...] about DEVOIR

Dialogue of or about the exchequer. An ancient treatise on the court of exchequer, attributed by some to Gervase of Tilbury, by others to Richard Fits Nigel, bishop of London in the reign of Richard I. It is quoted, by Lord Coke under the name of Ockham. Crabb, Eng. Law, 71. … [Read more...] about DIALOGUS DE SCACCARIO.