DIES

Latin: A day; days. Days for appearance in court. revisions or maintenance for a day. The king’s rents were anciently reserved by so many days’ provisions. Spelman; Cowell; Bloun. Dies a quo. (The day from which.) In the civil law. The day from which a transaction begins; the commencement of it; the conclusion being the dies ad quern. Mackeld. Rom. Law, 185. Dies amoris. A day of favor. The name given to the appearance day of the term on the fourth day, or quarto die post. It was the day given by the favor and indulgence of the court to the defendant for his appearance, when all parties appeared in court, and had their appearance recorded by the proper officer. Wharton. Dies cedit. The day begins; diet venit, the day has come. Two expressions in Roman law which signify the vesting or fixing of an interest, and the interest becoming a present one. Sandars Just. Inst. (5th Ed.) 225, 232. Dies communes in banoo. Regular days for appearance in court; called, also “common return-days.” 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 57. Dies datus. A day given or allowed, (to a defendant in an action;) amounting; to a continuance. But the name was appropriate only to a continuance before a declaration filed; If afterwards allowed, it was called an “imparlance.”-Dies datus in banco. A day given in the bench, (or court of common pleas.) ract fola 2575. 361. A day given in bank, as distinguished from a day at nini prius. Co. Litt. 135. Dies datus partibus. A day given to the parties to an action; an adjournment or continuance. Crabb, Eng. Law. 217. Dies datus prace partium. A day given on the prayer of the parties. Bract, fol. 358; Gilb. Comm. PI. 41: 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 60. Dies dominions. The Lord’s day; Sunday. Dies exereseens. In old English law. The added or increasing day in leap pear. Bract, fola. 350,350b. Dies fasti. In Roman law. Days on which the courts were open, and justice could be legally administered; days on which it was lawful for the praetor to pronounce (Tart) the three words do, dico, addico