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Lat. In the civil law. A summoning made, or notice given, in the presence of witnesses, (denuntiatio facta cum testatione.) Dig. 50, 16, 40. … [Read more...] about DETESTATIO

Latin: He has wasted. The act of an executor or administrator in wasting the goods of the deceased; mismanagement of the estate by which a loss occurs ; a breach of trust or misappropriation of assets held in a fiduciary character; any violation or neglect of duty by an executor or administrator, involving loss to the decedent's estate, which makes him personally responsible to … [Read more...] about DEVASTAVIT

Lat. He detains. In old English law. A species of action of debt, which lay for the specific recovery of goods, under a contract to deliver them. 1 Reeves, Eng. Law, 159. In pleading;. An action of debt is said to be in the detinet when it is alleged merely that the defendant witholds or unjustly detains from the plaintiff the thing or amount demanded. An action of replevin is … [Read more...] about DETINET

A writ, now obsolete, directed to the king's escheators when any of the king's tenants in capite dies, and when his son and heir dies within age and in the king's custody, commanding the escheators, that by the oaths of twelve good and lawful men they shall inquire what lands or tenements by the death of the tenant have come to the king. Dyer, 360; Termes de la Ley. … [Read more...] about DEVENERUNT

A possessory action of the Mexican law. It is brought to recover possession of Immovable property, of which one has been despoiled (despojado) by another. … [Read more...] about DESPOJAR