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Trained, able and satisfying official requirements to accept a formal role (e.g. public office) or take a certain action. … [Read more...] about DULY QUALIFIED

Manure. Sometimes it is real estate, and at other times personal property. When collected in a heap, it is personal estate; when spread out-on the land, it becomes incorporated in it, and it is then real estate. Vide Manure. … [Read more...] about DUNG

Those lands which formerly belonged to the dukes of Lancaster, and now belong to the crown in right of the duchy. The duchy is distinct from the county palatine of Lancaster, and includes not only the county, but also much territory at a distance from it, especially the Savoy in London and some land near Westminster. 8 Bl. Comm. 78. Duchy court of Lancaster. A tribunal of … [Read more...] about DUCHY OF LANCASTER

A duel la any combat with deadly weapons, fought between two or more persons, by previous agreement or npon a previous quarrel. Pen. Code Cal. { 225; State y. Fritz, 133 N. C. 725, 45 S. E. 957; State y. Herriott, 1 McMul. (S. C.) 130; Bassett y. State, 44 Fla. 2, 33 South. 262; Davis v. Modern Woodmen, 98 Mo. App. 713, 73 S. W. 923. … [Read more...] about DUEL

punishment. An instrument used, in dipping women in the water, as a punishment, on conviction of being common scolds. It is sometimes confounded with tumbrel. 2. This barbarous punishment was never in use in Pennsylvania. … [Read more...] about DUCKING-STOOL