E CONVERSO. On the other side or hand; on the contrary.E PLURIBUS UNUM. One from more. The motto of the arms of the United States.EAGLE, money. A gold...
DYNASTY. A succession of kings in the same line or family; government; sovereignty.DYSNOMY. Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.DYSPEPSIA, med....
DUTIES. In its most enlarged sense, this word is nearly equivalent to taxes, embracing all impositions or charges levied on persons or things; in its ...
DURANTE ABSENTIA. When the executor is out of the jurisdiction of the court or officer to whom belongs the probate of wills and granting letters of ad...
DUPLICITY, pleading. Duplicity of pleading consists in multiplicity of distinct matter to one and the same thing, whereunto several answers are requir...
DUNG. Manure. Sometimes it is real estate, and at other times personal property. When collected in a heap, it is personal estate; when spread out-on t...
DUELLING, crim. law. The fighting of two persons, one against the other, at an appointed time and place, upon a precedent quarrel. It differs from an ...
DRY. Used figuratively, it signifies that which produces nothing; as, dry exchange; dry rent; rent seek.DRY EXCHANGE, contracts. A term invented for d...
DROIT D'AUBAINE, jus albinatus. This was a rule by which all the property of a deceased foreigner, whether movable or immovable, was confiscated t...
DROIT D'ACCESSION, French civil law. Specificatio. That property which is acquired by making a new species out of the material of another. Modus a...