(From duo, two, and viri, men.) A general appellation among the ancient Romans, given to any magistrates elected in pairs to fill any office, or perform any function. Brande. Duumviri municipales were two annual magistrates in the towns and colonies, having judicial powers. Calvin. Duumviri navales were officers appointed to man, equip, and refit the navy. Id. … [Read more...]

In Roman law. A leader or military commander. The commander of an army. Dig. 3, 2, 2, pr. In feudal and old European law. Duke; a title of honor, or order of nobility. 1 Bl. Comm. 997; Crabb, Eng. Law, 236. In later law. A military governor of a province. See Cod. 1, 27, 2. A military officer having charge of the borders or frontiers of the empire, called "dux limitis.'9 Cod. … [Read more...]

In India. A court audience, or levee. Mozley A Whitley. … [Read more...]

To have an abode; to inhabit; to live in a place. Gardener v. Wagner, 9 Fed. Cas. 1,154; Ex parte Blumer, 27 Tex. 736; Putnam v. Johnson, 10 Mass. 502; Eatontown v. Shrewsbury, 49 N. J. Law, 188, 6 Atl. 319. … [Read more...]

An actual or a threatened violence or restraint of a man's person, contrary to law, to compel him to enter into a contract, or to discharge one. 1 Fairf. 325. 2. Sir William Blackstone divides duress into two sorts: First. Duress of imprisonment, where a man actually loses his liberty. If a man be illegally deprived of his liberty until he sign and seal a bond, or the like, he … [Read more...]