D

With regard to a transaction, the manner of buying or selling something. … [Read more...] about DEALING

English law. That portion of the personal estate of a deceased man which remained after his wife and children had received their reasonable parts from his estate; which was, if he had both a wife and child or children, one-third part; if a wife and no child, or a child or children and no wife, one-half; if neither wife nor child, he had the whole to dispose of by his last will … [Read more...] about DEATHS PART

Traffic, trade; the transaction of business between two or more persons. … [Read more...] about DEALINGS

See DEAD'S PART; DEAD MAN'S PART. … [Read more...] about DEATH'S PART

In English ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical dignitary who presides over the chapter of a cathedral, and is next in rank to the bishop. So called from having been originally appointed to superintend ten canons or prebendaries. 1 Bl. Comm. 382; Co. Litt 95; Spelman. There are several kinds of deans, namely: Deans of chapters; deans of peculiars; rural deans; deans in the … [Read more...] about DEAN