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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

The executioner; hangman; he that executes the extreme penalty of the law. … [Read more...] about DEATHSMAN

The extinction of life; the departure of the soul from the body; defined by physicians as a total stoppage of the circulation of the blood, and a cessation of the animal and vital functions consequent thereon, such as respiration, pulsation, etc. In legal contemplation, it is of two kinds: 1) Natural death, i.e., the extinction of life; 2) Civil death, which is that change in a … [Read more...] about DEATH