The chief silver coin among the Romans, worth 8d.; it was the seventh part of a Roman ounce. Also an English penny. The denarius was first coined five years before the first Punic war, B. C. 269. In later times a copper coin was called "denariu8." Smith, Diet. Antiq. Denarius Dei (Latin: "God's penny.") Earnest money; money given as a token of the completion of a bargain. It … [Read more...] about DENARIUS
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DENUNCIATION
crim. law. This term is used by the civilians to signify the act by which au individual informs a public officer, whose duty it is to prosecute offenders, that a crime has been committed. It differs from a complaint. In the civil law. The act by which an Individual informs a public officer, whose duty it is to prosecute offenders, that a crime has been committed. In Scotch … [Read more...] about DENUNCIATION
DENARIUS DEI
A term used in some countries to signify a certain sum of money which is given by one of the contracting parties to the other, as a sign of the completion of the contract. 2. It does not however bind the parties he who received it may return it in a limited time, or the other may abandon it, and avoid the engagement. 3. It differs from arrhae in this, that the latter is a part … [Read more...] about DENARIUS DEI
DENUNTIATIO
In old English law. A public notice or summons. Bract 202b. … [Read more...] about DENUNTIATIO
DENIAL
A traverse in the pleading of one party of an allegation of fact set up by the other; a defense. See Flack v. O'Brien, 19 Misc. Rep. 399, 43 N. Y. Supp. 854; Mott T. Baxter, 29 Colo. 418, 68 Pac. 220. General and specific. In code pleading, a general denial is one which puts in issue all the material averments of the complaint pr petition, and permits the defendant to prove any … [Read more...] about DENIAL