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Writ for delivering the copy of a libel. An ancient writ directed to the judge of a spiritual court, commanding him to deliver to a defendant a copy of the libel filed against him in such court Reg. Orig. 58. The writ in the register is directed to the Dean of the Arches, and his commissary. Id. … [Read more...] about DE COPIA LIBELLI DELIBERANDA

Of divers rules of the ancient law. A celebrated title of the Digests, and the last in that collection. It consists of two hundred and eleven rules or maxims. Dig. 50, 17. … [Read more...] about DE DIVERSIS REGULUS JURIS ANTIQUI

Abbreviation of de bene esse … [Read more...] about DBE

Of the bissextile or leap year. The title of a statute passed In the twenty-first year of Henry III., which in fact however, is nothing more than a sort of writ or direction to the justices of the bench, instructing them how the extraordinary day in the leap year was to be reckoned in cases where persons had a day to appear at the distance of a year, as on the essoin de mala … [Read more...] about DE ANNO BISSEXTILI

Conditionally; provisionally; in anticipation of a future need. A phrase applied to proceedings wfhich are taken w parte or provisionally, and are allowed to stand as well done for the present, but? which may be subject to future exception or challenge, and must then stand or fall according to their intrinsic merit and regularity. Thus, "in certain cases, the courts will allow … [Read more...] about DE BENE ESSE