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DUCKING-STOOL

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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...]

DUELLING

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crim. law. The fighting of two persons, one against the other, at an appointed time and place, upon a precedent quarrel. It differs from an array in this, that the latter occurs on a sudden quarrel, while the former is always the result of design. 2. When one of the parties is killed, the survivor is guilty of murder. 1 Russ. on Cr. 443; 1 Yerger's R. 228. Fighting a duel, even … [Read more...]

DUCROIRE

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In French law. Guaranty ; equivalent to del credere, (which see.) … [Read more...]

DUELLUM

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The trial by battel or judicial combat See BATTEL. … [Read more...]

DRY EXCHANGE

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contracts. A term invented for disguising and covering usury; in which something, was pretended to pass on both sides, when in truth nothing passed on one side, whence it was called dry. Stat. 3 Hen. VII. c. 5 Wolff, Ins. Nat. Section 657. … [Read more...]

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