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To make a man a denizen or citizen. … [Read more...] about DENIZE

In maritime law. The sum which is fixed by the contract of carriage, or which is allowed, as remuneration to the owner of a ship for the detention of his vessel beyond the number of days allowed by the charter party for loading and unloading or for sailing. Also the detention of the vessel by the freighter beyond such time. Demurrage is only an extended freight or reward to the … [Read more...] about DEMURRAGE

In English law. A person who, being an alien born, has obtained, ex donatione regis, letters patent to make him an English subject, a high and incommunicable branch of the royal prerogative. A denizen is in a kind of middle state between an alien and a natural-born subject, and partakes of the status of both of these. 1 Bl. Comm. 374; 7 Coke, 6. The term is used to signify a … [Read more...] about DENIZEN

In pleading. The formal mode of disputing the sufficiency in law of the pleading of the other side. In effect it is an allegation that, even if the facts as stated in the pleading to which objection is taken he true, yet their legal consequences are not such as to put the demurring party to the necessity of answering them or proceeding further with the cause. Law Dictionary - … [Read more...] about DEMURRER

An English statute, for the amendment of the law of evidence, (6 A 7 Vict c. 85,) which provides that no person offered as a witness shall thereafter be excluded by reason of incapacity, from crime or interest, from giving evidence. … [Read more...] about DENMAN'S (LORD) ACT