DAL 
The church i is a {mall neat building, having an organ, as 
ex which was defrayed by voluntary fublerip tion 
The tenure of property in this place is peculiar he cn e 
is divided r portions, o 1 ond the cuf- 
tomary tenements in each are of equal fize; pay equal parts 
of rent to the lord; are not devifeable by will; and cannot 
be feparated by the proprietor. This peculiarity arofe out 
of the feudal fyftem, Sy modified in religious cafes ; 
as every tenant formerly obliged to furnifh the abbot 
with a man and horfe for the feovie sa the king. 
1e only trade , at prefent, is that of 
‘this his native * en Nov. 15th, 1802. Onan eminence, 
called High Haume, about a mie to the north of the town, 
is a circular intrenched mound, which iat to ae been 
a fortified beacon: and on the wett fide arocky em 
with a fquare tower upon the fuentes, probe abl 
guard the approach to the abbey. In this fortrefs the 
abbots held their fecular courts, and inured their prifoners. 
The building contains three floors, and is ufed to hold the 
courts-leet and baron of the chief lords of the liberty and 
ft 
+a ee of Furnefs. was 
t which ca 
with its fallen grandes) sl: it a y 
tereftin which is much pa and admired by 
the votaries af ‘tafte and ionee a antiquity. - 
Darron, a fine townfhip ca, in Berkhhire 
county, and ftate of Matfachufetts, having Pittsfield on the 
Wett, and containing 859 inhabitants. It was incorporated 
in 1784, and lies 135 miles W. om Bofton, and 
about 36 miles in the fame yee hs Piauaael ser the 
ofton to —Alfo, -a townfhip in 
- Ham thire,, frit called Apthorp, in- 
; fituate 
near 
oo pa the town oe Vesna. ace mend the Allo 
at K 
DALUS,i in Antiquity, a certain meafure of land ; whence 
comes dai. The dali prati have been efteemed fuch narrow 
flips of pafture, as are left between the ploughed furrows in 
arable land; which, in fome parts of England, are called 
doles. The word ts applied in Welfh to low meadows by a 
river fide original and nature of 
Deal in Kent, where Cefar landed ag fought the Britons. 
DAM 
DAM, a boundary or pa raneey as to dam up, or dam 
out: infra damnum /uum, within the bou - or limits of his 
own Vege) or jurifdition, ee act. lib. il. ca 
mM denotes a ieee of earth or other pie wich pens 
oe ill 3 fometimes the fheet, or pound of 
Wales itfelf is called Ge "dam. See E MEANKMENT. 
money of account j in es Mogul empire, which is 
the fortieth part of a rupee, 25. 6d, fterling, and ae 
for computing the land revenues. 
inge Dam, 2, Dammona, % in hist aphy, 
a {ma!l town of Holland, in ae auiee ent o oeningen, 
on the river Fivel, which, from this place, is called the 
Damfter Diep, about three miles from the fea, 15 N E. of 
Groeningen, and - . of Embden. N, lat. 53° 360'.— 
ane a aan town of France, i in the department of the 
t fa ar fon the fea, and 5 males N.E. of Bruges. 
ie. 
D SAMA, a town of ie in the county of Yemen; 
220 miles N.N.E. of Mec 
Dama, in Zeslegy. ce mea: ANTELOPE aid 
Nancuer, Lucanus, and Pu NA noua 
DA’'MA, in Ship- Building,.a a ‘lin fubltance ufed in 
nae for pay ing the bottoms o In fome parts of 
t ountry, the planks obec into each other, the 
eee oe are filled with pei and the whole cf the thip’s 
tom being payed with dama, prefents, as . . ba 
impenetrable furface, as impervious to the 1s 
poffible for any fubftance, in the flighteft pe ans 
fhould be. 
AMAG, in Cegrapiys a town of the ifland of Java, os 
the north coat, where the Dutch have a fatory. 
DA , in Lo. is generally taken for any hurt, or 
hindrance that man receives in his eftate ; a ut beleg ied ticu~ 
larly for e Sa e of 
and bring in, in : lini PA a vil 
action, be it perfonal or real. After ee given of the prin- 
cipal cane Bey are afked their confcienccs ace ng cofts 
im by 1 the defendant or tenant. Damage t 
relative, as it is in cafes where 
founded cn at fae of 2 Hen. 1V. cap. 1, and § Hen. VI. 
cap. 9, where colts are qe within the word damages 
Damage then, in its proper fignification, is faid 2 a demendo, 
when, by diminution, a thing becomes worfe; and in this 
fenfe cofts of {uit are damage to the plaintiff, as by them 
his fubftance is dimini 
Relative is when the plaintiff declares the wrong done 
him to the damage of fuc : is is to 
latively, for the wrong ate puied before the he 
and is aflefled by reafon of the sae aoe 
not extend to colts of {uit, which are future wd of another 
nature. 10 Rep. 116, 117. Cos 
In sal tad and mixed actions, damages were recovered at 
common law. But in rea/ ations, no damages were reco- 
oe becaufe none w 
a ’ 
» £11,147, perfonal P tions the plaintiff 
fhall recover damages only Fes the tort done defore the action 
brought ; and therein he counts for his dam mages. Ina 
aéti ion, he recovers th it, 
never counts for he damages. es Rep. 117.) 
ftatute of Glouc. 6 Ed. I. c. 1, damages are given in real 
actions, affifes of novel diffcifin, mort ro anceftor 
fhall be pcos againit the alienee of a differ, as , well 
K as 
