Taxes usually another term for estate taxes or on people who inherit property. … [Read more...] about DEATH TAXES
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DEAFFOREST
In old English law. To discharge from being forest. To free from forest laws. … [Read more...] about DEAFFOREST
DEATH TRAP
A structure which seriously endangers the lives of those who occupy or enter the premises or may use the object. … [Read more...] about DEATH TRAP
DE SECTA AS MOLENDINUM
Of suit to a mill. A writ which lay to compel one to continue his custom (of grinding) at a mill. 3 Bl. Oomm. 235; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 122, M. De similibus ad similia eadem rations procedendiun est. From like things to like things we are to proceed by the same rule or reason, [i.e., we are allowed to argue from the analogy of cases.] Branch, Princ. De similibus idem est … [Read more...] about DE SECTA AS MOLENDINUM
DE UXORE RAPTA ET ABDUCTA
A writ which lay where a man's wife had been ravished and carried away. A species of writ of trespass. Reg. Orig. 97; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 89, O; 3 Bl. Comm. 139. … [Read more...] about DE UXORE RAPTA ET ABDUCTA