Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Dedi
[Latin] Hist. I have given. ( Dedi is a conveyancing term that implies a warranty of title. Cf. CONCESSI. "Dedi is a warranty in law to the feoffee and his heirs: as if it be said in a feoffment A. B. hath given and granted, & c. it is a warranty." Termes de la Ley 148 (1st Am. ed. 1812).
Dedication
n Property. The donation of land or creation of an easement for public use. - dedicate, vb. - dedicatory, adj.
Quod quis sciens indebitum dedit hac mente, ut postea repeteret, repetere non potest
What one has paid knowing that it is not owed, with the intention of reclaiming it afterwards, he cannot recover. Dig. 12.6.50.
animus dedicandi
[latin] the intention to donate or dedicate.
common-law dedication
A dedication made without a statute, consisting in the owner's appropriation of land, or an easement in it, for the benefit or use of the public, and the acceptance, by or on behalf of the land or easement. - Often shortened to dedication. ting a debtor in pieces"] Roman law. The title of a law in the Twelve Tables, meaning either literally to cut a debtor into pieces or merely to divide the debtor's estate. See TWELVE TABLES. "DE DEBITORE IN PARTES SECANDO .... [S]ome writers contending for the literal signification, while others have supposed it to be only a figurative expression The latter view has been adopted by Montesquieu, Bynkershoek, Heineccius and Taylor The literal meaning, on the other hand, is advocated by Aulus Gellius and other writers of antiquity, and receives support from an expression (semoto omni cruciatu) in the Roman Code itself This is also the opinion of Gibbon, Gravina, Pothier, Hugo and Niebuhr." 1 Alexander Burrill, A Law Dictionary and Glossary 432 (2d ed. 1867).
condedit
[Latin "he made (a will)"] Eccles. law. A defensive plea filed by a party in response to an ecclesiasticalcourt libel (i.e., complaint) questioning the veracity of a will. - Also spelled condidit.
dedi et concessi
[Law Latin] I have given and conveyed. ( These were the words generally used to convey a gift.
dedication and reservation
A dedication made with reasonable conditions, restrictions, and limitations. dedication day See DAY.
dedication by adverse user
A dedication arising from the adverse, exclusive use by the public with the actual or imputed knowledge and acquiescence of the owner.
dedication day
Hist. A day on which people from several villages gathered in one place to celebrate the feast day of the saint and patron of a church.
dedimus et concessimus
[Law Latin] We have given and granted. 0 These words were used in a conveyance when there was more than one grantor or when the grant was from the Crown.
dedimus potestatem
[Law Latin "we have given power"] 1. A commission issuing from the court before which a case is pending, authorizing a person named in the commission to compel the attendance of certain witnesses, to take their testimony on the written interrogatories and crossinterrogatories attached to the commission, to reduce the answers to writing, and to send it sealed to the court issuing the commission. 2. In England, a chancery writ commissioning the persons named in the writ to take certain actions, including administering oaths to defendants and justices of the peace. ( The writ was formerly used to commission a person to take action such as acknowledging a fine and -appointing an attorney for representation in court. Before the Statute of Westminster (1285), an attorney could not appear on behalf of a party without this writ. - Also termed dedimus potestatem de attorno faciendo. "Dedimus potestatem is a writ that lies where a man sues in the king's court, or is sued, and cannot well travel, then he shall have this writ directed to some justice, or other discreet person in the country, to give him power to admit some man for his attorney, or to levy a fine, or to take his confession, or his answer, or other examination, as the matter requires." Termes de la Ley 148 (1st Am. ed. 1812).
dediticii
n. [Latin "those who have surrendered"] Roman law. Enemies who on surrender were granted their freedom or by the Lex Aelia Sentia, slaves (esp. criminals) who on being freed were denied citizenship. ( Justinian abolished this status. - Also spelled dedititii. "Slaves who before manumission had been subjected to degrading punishment (e.g. had been branded or made to fight in the arena) were given, on manumission, a special status, viz. that of enemies surrendered at discretion (dediticii). A dediticius, though free and not a slave, had none of the rights of a citizen, could never under any circumstances better his position (e.g. become a citizen), and was not allowed to live within 100 miles of Rome." R.W. Leage, Roman Private Law 67 (C.H. Ziegler ed., 2d ed. 1942).
dedition
n. [fr. Latin deditio "give up"] A surrender of something, such as property.
express dedication
A dedication explicitly manifested by the owner.
implied dedication
A dedication presumed by reasonable inference from the owner's conduct.
nient dedire
vb. [Law French] Hist. To deny nothing; to be subject to a default judgment.
non dedit
n. [Latin "he did not grant"] NE DONA PAS.
statutory dedication
A dedication for which the necessary steps are statutorily pre-scribed, all of which must be substantially followed for an effective dedication.
tacit dedication
See DEDICATION.