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A debt or obligation complete when contracted, but of which the performance cannot be required till some future period. … [Read more...] about DEBITUM IN PRAESENTI SOLVENDUM IN FUTURO

In ecclesiastical and old European law. An officer having supervision over ten; a dean. A term applied not only to ecclesiastical, but to civil and military, officers. Decanus monasticus; a monastic dean, or dean of a monastery; an officer over ten monks. Decanus in majori ecclesice; dean of a cathedral church, presiding over ten prebendaries. Decanus epis copi; a bishop's or … [Read more...] about DECANUS

L. Lat. Debt without writ; debt without a declaration. In old practice, this term denoted an action toegun by original bill, instead of by writ In modern usage, it is sometimes applied to a debt evidenced by confession of judgment without suit The equivalent Norman-French phrase was "debit sons breve." Both are abbreviated to d. s. b. … [Read more...] about DEBITUM SINE BREVI

The act of beheading. A mode of capital punishment by cutting off the head. … [Read more...] about DECAPITATION

A sum of money due by certain and express agreement; as by bond for a determinate sum, a bill or note, a special bargain, or a rent reserved on a lease, where the amount is fixed and specific, and does not depend upon any subsequent valuation to settle it. 3 Bl. Comm. 154; Camden v. Allen, 26 N. J. Law, 398; Appeal of City of Erie, 91 Pa. 398; Dickey v. Leonard, 77 Ga. 151; … [Read more...] about DEBT