Of testaments. The title of the fifth part of the Digests or Pandects; comprising the twenty-eighth to the thirty-sixth books, both inclusive. … [Read more...] about DE TESTAMENTIS
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DEAD BODY
crim. law. A corpse. 2. To take up a dead body without lawful authority, even for the purposes of dissection, is a misdemeanor, for which the offender may be indicted at common law. The preventing a dead body from being buried, is also an indictable offence. A corpse. The body of a human being, deprived of life, but not yet entirely disintegrated. … [Read more...] about DEAD BODY
DE SALVO CONDUCTU
A writ of safe conduct. Reg. Orig. 25b, 26. … [Read more...] about DE SALVO CONDUCTU
DE THEOLONIO
A writ which lay for a person who was prevented from taking toll. Reg. Orig. 103. … [Read more...] about DE THEOLONIO
DEAD BORN
descent, persons. Children dead-born are considered, in law, as if they had never been conceived, so that no one can claim a title, by descent, through such dead-born child. This is the doctrine of the civil law. Dig. 50, 16, 129. Non nasci, et natum mori, pare, sunt. Mortuus exitus, non est exitus. Civil Code of Louis. art. 28. A child in ventre sa mere is considered in being, … [Read more...] about DEAD BORN