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Habere facias possessionem
be enforced by writ of possession, and where by any judgment any person therein named is directed to deliver up possession of any lands to some other person, the person prosecuting such judgment shall be entitled to
Gaol delivery
Gaol delivery, a commission to the judges, etc., to try and deliver every prisoner in gaol when they arrive at
Gager de deliverance
Gager de deliverance, when he who has distrained, being sued, has not delivered the cattle distrained; then he shall not only
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Extortion
to that person, or to any other, and thereby dishonestly induces the person so put in fear to deliver to any person any property or valuable security, or anything signed or sealed which may be converted into
Duces tecum, subp'na
Court will not compel him to produce it. If the witness, instead of bringing the papers, etc., required, deliver them to the opposite party, by whom they are withheld, the Court will allow secondary evidence of the
Distringas
bring in the body. (3) A distringas in detinue, a special writ of execution to compel defendant to deliver the goods by repeated distresses of his chattels; or a scire facias might be issued against a third
Devest, or divest
or divest [fr. de and vestis, Lat.], to deprive, to take away; opposite to invest, which is to deliver possession of anything to another.
Detinet
(he detains), an action of debt, which lay for the specific recovery of goods, under a contract to deliver them, 1 Reeves, 159. No longer a technical expression.
Depositary
that he keeps the thing with reasonable care, and, upon request, restore it to the depositor, or otherwise deliver it, according to the original trust. Means a company formed and registered under the Companies Act, (1 of
Demurrage
a view to recover those dues would ordinarily have a lien on the goods and can refuse to deliver the goods till the demurrage charges are paid, Sun Export Corporation v. Board of Trustees of the Port
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