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Dock work
unloading, movement or storage of cargoes into or from ship or other vessel, port, dock, storage place or landing place, and includes- (i) work in connection with the preparation of ships or other vessels for receipt or
Dissenters
54 Vict. c. 19), provides for facilities in regard to the appointment of trustees and the title to lands purchased for religious or educational purposes. The (English) Places of Worship Registration Act, 1855, (18 & 19 Vict.
Dispauper
his poverty is admitted to sue in forma pauperis, and afterwards, before the suit be ended, acquires any lands or personal estate, or is guilty of anything whereby he is liable to have this privilege taken from
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Directors
may have acted, and can as such plead the limitation under the Trustee Act, 1888, s. 8 [Re Lands Allotment Co., (1894) 1 Ch 616]. As to their position generally, see Re Faure Electric Accumulator Co., (1889)
Dilligrout
formerly made for the king's table on the coronation day. There was a tenure in serjeanty, by which lands were held of the king by the service of finding this pottage at that solemnity, 39 Hen. 3
Diem clausit extremum
capite. By this writ the escheator of the county was commanded to inquire by a jury of what lands the tenant died seised, and of what value, and who was the next heir to him. It was
Devenerunt
and in custody, commanding the escheator that, by the oaths of good and lawful men, he inquire what lands and tenements, by the death of the tenant, came to the king, Dyer, 860.
Demeine, Demain, or Demesne
Demeine, Demain, or Demesne [fr. demaine, Fr.], that part of the lands of a manor which the lord has not granted out in tenancy, but which is reserved for his
Cy-pres
as near as may be to the testator' intention, according to law. Thus, where a testator has devised lands in a manner transgressing the rules of perpetuity and the Court can by giving the estates tail to
Demandant
Demandant, he who is actor or plaintiff in a real action, because he demands lands, Co Litt. 127.
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