DEF 
r to 
porter is likewife required to » as fecu 
the good fhall not be iad in nay ee of the United 
in 
om. 
= ay bentares s, whether for a drawback cra bounty, na 
a variety of formalities and examinations, and muft have a 
number of fignatures to render them complete. They « are 
enumerated, have been 
paid; thofe for bounties, from the bond given by the 
merchant for the exportation of ive seeds {pecified in the 
omputed, and endorfed 
in figures, by = clerk of the r ie controller checks 
this computation. The examiner nner aod infe:ts them 
i debenture, with. the titles 
and the amount in words at 
length. ure for a bounty, the colle€tor out- 
wards, computes, and enters, at different times, the feveral 
Seances, with the amount in figures and in words at length: 
the controller, ec lae and furveyor-general, fucceflively 
check this computatio 
D-bentures, like nol other public documents, are liable 
to a ftamp duty. 
DEBLT, among Book-keepers, is ufed to exprefs the left- 
hand page of the ledger, to wuich are carried all articles fup- 
plied or ala on the fubjeét of an account. 
Desert et Dertinert, in Law, are Latin words, denoting, 
be jaa a detaineth, w{ed in the bringing of writs and 
a&tions; and an action fhall always be in the debet et detinet, 
when he who makes a ae or contract, or lent money to 
is _ bringeth the action 
ut ifa 
f he brings debs for the 
horfe, seit mutt be in the d New 1, 265. 
EBET ET SOLET, are aifo formal words ae ule of 
in writs ; a fome writs have thefe words in them, which 
ought not to be omitted. Likewife, according to the, di- 
verfity of the cafe, both debet et folet are ufed, or debet 
alone: as a quod permittat may be in the debet et folet, or 
in the debet only, as the demandant claims. And if a perfon 
fues to recover any right, whereof his anccftor was diffeifed, 
by the tenant or his anceftor, then he ufeth the word debet 
alone in his writ, becaufe his anceltor only was ei 
and the eftate difcontinued: but if he fue for any thing tha 
is now firft of all denied him, then he ufeth debet et ee 
becaufe his anceftor before him, and he bimfelf ufually en- 
joyed the thing fued for, until the ae Klis of the 
tena eg. Orig. 740. he writ of a molendini is 
a arn ‘of right in the debet et folet, &c. F. 
DEBILIT LY, in Medicine, is a term of (gewne: extens 
five application, being ufed by medical writers, aa only to 
e mutcular powers of the body, 
ue anon of 
w which denot 
_the ee my of Dr. Brown. 
DEB 
the vital ae oS weaknefs of the pulfe; the colde 
nefs or fhrin extremities; the tendency to a 
Gcleuion ane in a ure ; ; the weaknels of 
re{piration :—in the aed fanetion: the weaknefs of the 
flomach, as appearing in anorexia, naufea, and vomiting ; 
involuntary excretions, depending on a palfy of the fphinc- 
ters; and diffi. uit deglutition, depending on a palfy of the 
mufcles of the fauces. Firlt Lines, § 104. 
he term debility is alfo applied to every diminution of 
the powers of the fyltem, although originating in circum. 
ftances altogether different in their nature. weaknels, 
for example, which fucceeds acute difeafes, or ae i8 pro- 
duced by {pare diet, or other means of privation of the up: 
port of the body ; and os he {fs of ftrength which is occa- 
fioned by the operation of contagion, or other caufes of fi pa 
and of narcotic fubitances, which fudderly i eee the energy" 
re Spanien debilit The latter 
of ftrength, to diting sith it iP ben 
fubftance of the body, which accompanies the for 
Debility holds an important ftation in the fyftem of Dr. 
Brown, oan called the Brunonian fyltem, in which it 
is ufed in a peculiar acceptation. Dcbihty, uw: to. 
Brown’s hypothelis, is the caufe of all cifeafes, and is of 
two kinds, which he terms dire and indire@ debility. As 
health confifts of a proper balance of {timuli, with excitabi- 
lity of the animal body, according to this hypothefis ; fo, 
when the ftimuli are in proportion too powerful, the excita- 
bility is exhaulted and indire@ debility enfues,; and when the - 
samt is proportionately too feeble, the excitability is 
acc and debility is the confequence; which i 
shea direct ea: ; becaufe it is not produced by any ae 
itive noxious power, but by a fubdu@ion of the things ne-. 
ana to fu uence t life”? Brown’s Elements of Medicine, . 
chap. 
De "Dar rwin “has placed thefe two conditions of the bo 
in a fimilar light, in his Zoonomia. 
tions en{ues, which may be denominated debility ie ae 
If the eae of ftimulus rem:ins the 
and the quantity of fenforial power be Irff=ned. aoe ikind 
of weaknefs enfues, which may be termed debility from defeE 
of fenforial power : “he former is the dire& debilty, the latter 
See Zoonomia, vol. i. 
feat. x 
The tubes of dire&t aul or debility from defect of 
ftimulus, are per ons in a tate o 
fa 
. On the contrary, thofe 
perfons fuffer indire& debility, or debility from exhauftion 
of the fenforial power, who have 
on of wine the preceding night; or ew ve bee 
expofed to exccflive heat. bitual drunkards fuffer under 
this {pecies of debility every morning, before 
ufual potation, as is evince yt the tremors of their hands, 
their lowne{s of fpirits, 
‘Through the wile eae grefs of endre bec fays Dr. . 
Brown, the fecond application of eve us has lefs ef 
feet than the firft, the third lefs res a “econ 2 
ae to the oo which 
et takes place in proportion to the degree or duration oF 
i areieno though each gives fome excitement. . 
which is producing it, fhould be withdrawn; a debilitating . 
power fhould be applied; asin giving over drinking — 
the 
