Dig - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: digDigging
The act or the place of digging or excavating...
digs
same as diggings...
Fossorial
Fitted for digging adapted for burrowing or digging as a fossorial foot a fossorial animal...
Grub
To dig in or under the ground generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate to be occupied in digging...
Restitutio in integrum
Restitutio in integrum, the rescinding of a contract or transaction, so as to place the parties to it in the same position, with respect to one another, which they occupied before the contract was made, or the transaction took place. The restitutio here spoken of is founded on the edict. If the contract or transaction is such as not to be valid, according to the jus civile this restitutio is not needed, and it only applies to cases of contracts and transactions, which are not in their nature or form invalid. In order to entitle a person to the restitutio, he must have sustained some injury capable of being estimated, in consequence of the contract or transaction, and not through any fault of his own, except in the case of one who is minor xxv. Annorum, who was protected by the restitutio against the consequences of his own carelessness.The following are the chief cases in which a restitutio might be decreed:-The case of vis et metus. When a man had acted under the influence of force or...
Chalkcutter
A man who digs chalk...
Collier
One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal or in transporting or dealing in coal...
Delve
To dig to open the ground as with a spade...
Delver
One who digs as with a spade...
Dig
To turn up or delve in earth with a spade or a hoe to open loosen or break up the soil with a spade or other sharp instrument to pierce open or loosen as if with a spade...
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