DEF 
Penalties may be levied by diftrefs, 
‘eranfported for 7 years. 
mitted for 12 
in default of which offenders are to be com 
rofe ae 
3 from the time of the ace commited, By 
ftat. 28 Geo. II. c. 19, deftroying gorze, furze, and fern 
in forefts and chaces, being the covert for deer, fubjets the 
offenders to a penalty from 5/ or to three months’ 
eal For further particulars, fee Game and Lar- 
* "DEERFIELD, in Geograghy, a poft-town of Amer 
in Cumberland county, and ftate of New Jerfey; 178 miles 
from Wathingto o, a very pleafant oh-towa 
Hamphhire. coe, and ftate of Maffachufetts, feated on ie 
weit bank of ConneCicut river, from which the compa& part 
of the town is feparated by a chain of high hills. It lies in 
the midft of a fertile country, and has a {mall inland trade. 
The co 
1797, under the nam is efta- 
blifhed in this town, diftant from Wafhin ngton 430 aie N. Ey 
~—Alfo, a well-fettled agricultural town in the county of 
Rockingham, and fiate of New Hamphhire, formerly a part 
of the pees of Nottingham; 19 miles S. E. of Concord, 
and 35 . of — 3 containing 1878 inhabitants, 
and incorpo orated: i Alfo, a river called Pocemtic, 
73 
o 
.3 
= 
ria 
in an eatterly direttion, it 
receives North:river, and difcharges itfelf into Conneéticut 
river betwecn the townfhips of Greenfield ~ Deerld. 
On its banks are tracts of excellent meadow gro 
Restate a townfhip of America, in Hillfborough 
unty, and ftat mpfhire, peel ike ioe in 17743 
Caan 1244 inhabitants, aa diftant 15 miles S.W. of 
Concord, and 54.m i 
DE ESS ENDO | ee de tolonio, in tow it that 
lies for thofe who are by privilege freed from fer ayneat 
of toll, on their being moletted. Nat. Br. fol. 226. 
DE EXPENSITS Mizirum,a writ commanding the fheriff 
to levy four fhillings per day, to defray the expences of a 
te of the fhire attending in parliament. See Knicur. 
eis alike writ de exper is civium sel burgenfium, to levy 
two Auliogsp er day for every citiz na in parlia- 
me 23 ry VI. ca a , 
DE FACTO, fomething atually in fact, or exifting ;. 
contradiftin@ion to de gure, where a thing. is only fo nition 
or equity, but not in fact, 
After the paar the retainers of the abdicated king 
infifted much o ifference between a ki 
e 
poffeflion. The non-jurors:-held the pretender for xing de 
jure; and only allowed king George for king e fado 
DEFAIT, or Decapire’, a term u 
Heralds to denote a beaft whofe head is cut off fmooth ;.in 
which it differs from erafed, nia the head is, as it were, 
torn off, and the neck left ra ragged 
DE *ALCATION, from the Pench defalquer, to dimi- 
nifh, denotes the dedution or sik nes of a {mall fum, .in © 
ha a perfon {peaks 
iftrate, &e. where 
> 
ud 
a 
{candalous words of another, or o fe 
they are injured in their reputation ; se which the party’ 
3 
ed by the French 
& 
DEF 
offending fhall be punifhed, oe ie the nature and quae 
ity of the offence; fometimes by aétion on iid be at coms 
mon law, fometimes by ant te, and i s by eccle- 
fiattical law, at defamation is alfo punithable by the 
{piritual courts ; 3 in which courts it ought to have three in- 
cidents; firft, i isis and deter- 
i i as for calling a man he- 
retic, fel mate, adulterer, fornicator r, &c. 
or 
by way eee Terms de Ley, 224, 225. 
DEF TORY, a term chiefly ufed in the phrafe de. 
famatory i giving a writing intended to fcandalize or 
difcredit a 
the aoa law w, and the ancient ordonnances of 
France, the authors of defamatory libels were punifhed with: 
death. See Balduin, Comment. ad Leges de Libellis fa- 
18. 
t the hiftorian a us, that cardinal Ximenes was in-- 
ory libels; he found it but reafonable 
3 the i ty of venting their Ags bY vile d 
ine while the perfon is offen 
lofe all their {pirit and malignity when defpifed or > dilres 
garded. 
DEFAN, Carez,in Geography, the laft cape af the fhore’ 
flinia, before you run inio the ftraits of Babelmandeb ; 
it is arts by jad bias aie Cape Dafui. This, fays Mr. 
ruce, ing im any language; the Abyflinians, 
on alot fide i it i. val it "Cap ¢ Defan, ox the cape of Burial, 
probably becaufe the eait wind drove oe ape ohad 
been fhipwrecke d in 
Jurors m mle default in their appearance for trying of 
caufes ae lofe and forfeit iffues, unlefs they have a reafon- 
able excufe proved by witneffes, in which’ cafe the juttices 
) difcharge eg iffue for default. Stat. 35 Hen. VIII. 
a 
ee JURY. 
 DEFEASA ANCE, or Dereazance, (from the French 
de, pri to de feat, ) is oF two forts; 1. A collateral deed, made: 
e fa a eee 
time executing a deed of ae rea fe feoffment- 
was rendered void on repayment of the , borrowed at’ 
a-certain day: nd this, = executed at th e fame time- 
with original age nfidered as part of it by the 
ancient law (Co.. on ; eer therefore, only indulged 3; 
no fubfequent cre: accommodation of a folemn con- 
weyance; 
