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To DEMA'ND, v. a. [dcmander, Fr.] To claim ; to 
alk for with authority : 
The pound of flefh, which I demand of him, 
Is dearly bought; ’tis mine, and I will have it. Shakcfp. 
To queftion ; to interrogate.—And when Uriah was come 
unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and 
how the people did, and how the war profpered ? z Sam. 
xi. 7.—if any friend of Caslar’s demand why Brutus rofe 
againft Csefar, this is my anfwer: Not that I loved Ca;- 
far lefs, but that I loved Rome more. Shakefpcare. 
DEMA'ND, f. [demande, Fr.] A claim; a challeng¬ 
ing ; the alking of any tiling with authority.—This mat¬ 
ter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by 
tire word of the holy ones. Dan. iv. 17.—A queftion; an 
interrogation. The calling for a thing in order to pur- 
chale it.—My bookfeller tells me, the demand for thofe 
my papers increafes daily. Addifon. 
DEMA'ND, J. in law, is a calling upon a man for 
any thing due. There are two manner of demands, the 
one in deed, the other in law :■ in deed, as in a precipe quod 
reddat , there is an exprefs demand. Every entry on land, 
diftrefs for rent, taking of goods, &c. which may be done 
without words, is a demand in law. 8 Rep. 153. It is 
alfo faid there are three forts of demands; one in writing 
without fpeaking, and that is in every precipe-, one with¬ 
out writing, being a verbal demand of the perfon, who 
is to do or perform the thing; and another, made with¬ 
out either word or writing, which is a demand in law, in 
cafes of entries on lands, &c. As an entry on land, and 
taking a diftrefs, are a demand in law of the land and 
rent, fo the bringing an aftion of debt for money due on 
an obligation is a demand in law of the debt. 1 Nelf. Abr. 
Debts, claims, &c. are to be demanded and made in time, 
by the ftatute of limitations, 21 Jac. I. c. 16. and other 
ftatutes; or they will be loft by law. 
Where there is a duty, which the law makes payable 
©n demand, no demand need be made ; but if there is no 
duty till demand, in filch cafe there mull be a demand, 
to make the duty. Cro. Eliz. 5 48. Upon a penalty, the 
party need not make a demand, as he muff in the cafe 
of a nomine poena; for, if a man be bound to pay twenty 
pounds on fueh a day, and in default thereof to pay forty 
pounds, the forty pounds mull be paid without demand. 
1 Mod. 89. If a man leafes land by indenture for years, 
referving a rent payable at certain days, and the leflee 
covenants to pay the rent at the days limited ; the leflor 
is intitled to his rent without demand, for the leflee is 
obliged to pay it at the days, by force of his covenant. 
2 Danv. Abr. 101. But if a leflbr makes a leafe ren¬ 
dering rent, and the leflee covenant to pay the rent, 
being lawfully demanded, the leflee is not bound to pay 
the rent, without a demand. A perfon makes a leafe for 
life, or years, referving a rent upon condition, that if the 
leflee doth not pay the rent at the day, that then, with¬ 
out any demand, it firal 1 be lawful for the leffor to re¬ 
enter; by this fpecial agreement of the parties, the leffor 
may enter on non-payment of the rent, without any de¬ 
mand. 2 Danv. Abr. 100. A leafe for years, w T ith condi¬ 
tion to be void on non-payment of the rent, is not void 
vinlefs the rent be demanded ; and an intereft (hall not 
be determined, without an adlual demand. 2 Mod. 264. 
But now, by the ftatutes relative to rents, an ejectment 
may be maintained without an adlual entry. See ftatutes 
4 Geo. II. c. 28. and u Geo. II. c. 19. 
A demand is to be legal, and made in fuch manner as 
the law requires; if it be for rent of a mefluage and lands, 
it ought to be made at the mefluage, at the fore door of 
the houfe, the mod notorious place; where lands and 
woods are let together, the rent is to be demanded on 
the land, as the moft worthy thing, and on the rnoft 
public part thereof; if wood only be leafed, the demand 
mull be made at the gate of the wood, &c. 1 Injl. 201. 
Dyer, 51. Cro. Eliz. 209. Fie that would enter for a con- 
tlition. broken, which tends to the deflrudtion of an eftate, 
muff, r. Demand the rent. 2. Upon the land, if there 
is no houfe. 3. If there is a houfe, at the fore door; 
though it is not material whether any perfon be in the 
houfe or no. 4. If the appointment is at any other place, 
oft the land, the demand muff be at that place. 5. The 
time of the demand is to be certain, that the tenant may 
be there, if he will, to pay the rent; and the laft time, 
of demand of the rent, muft be fuch a convenient time 
before the fun-fetting of the laft day of payment, as the 
money may be numbered. The leflor or his fufficier.t 
attorney is to remain upon the land, the laft day on which 
the rent due ought to be paid, until it be fo dark that he 
cannot fee to tell the money : and if the fnoney thus de¬ 
manded is not paid, this is a denial in law, though there 
are no words of denial; upon which a re-entry may be 
made, See. 1 Injl. 201. 4 Rep. 73. 
As a releafe of fuits is more large than of quarrels or 
adlions ; fo a releafe of demands is more large and bene¬ 
ficial than either of them. By a releafe of all demands, 
all executions, and all freeholds, and inheritances, exe¬ 
cutory, are releafed : by a releafe of demands to the dif- 
feifor, the right of entry in the land, and all that is con¬ 
tained therein, is releafed. And he that releafeth all 
demands, excludes himfelf from all adlions, entries, and 
feizures ; but a releafe of all demands, is no bar in a writ 
of error to reverfe on outlawry. 8 Co. 153. 
DEMAND'ABLE, adj. That may be demanded; re- 
quefted; afked for.—All fums dcmandable for licence of 
alienation to be made of lands holden in chief, have been 
flayed in the way to the hanaper. Bacon. 
DEMAND'ANT, f. Fie who is adtor or plaintiff in 3 
real adlion, becaufe he demandeth lands. All civil ac¬ 
tions are profecuted either by demands, or plaints, and 
the purfuer is called demandant, in aftions real ; and 
plaintiff, in perfonal adlions: in areal adlion, lands, & c. 
are demanded. Co. Lit. 127. 
DEM AND'ER,yi \_demandeur, Fr. ] One that requires 
a thing with authority. One that afks a queftion. One 
that afks for a thing in order to purchafe it.—They grow 
very fall and fat, which alfo bettereth their tafle, and 
delivereth them to the dmanders ready ufe at all feafons, 
Carew. —A dunner; one that demands a debt. 
DE'MANGE aux EUX, a town .of France, in the 
department of the Meufe, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diilridl of Vaucouleurs : eight miles well of Vau~ 
couleurs. 
DEMARA'TUS, the fon and fuccefTor of Arifton on 
the throne of Sparta, before Chrifl 526. lie was banifhed 
by the intrigues of Cleomenes, his royal colleague, as 
being illegitimate. He retired into Afia, and was kindly 
received by Darius fon of Hyflafpes king of Perfia. When 
the Perfian monarch made preparations to invade Greece, 
Demaratus, though perfecuted by the Lacedxmonians, 
informed them of the hoflilities which hung over their 
head. See Sparta. 
DE'MAS, [from the Greek, fignifying popular.] A 
man’s name. 
DEMA'SS, or Demsas, a town of Africa, on the eafl 
coaft of the country of Tunis: eight miles fouth-eafl of 
Lempta. 
DEMAVE'ND, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Irak : 170 miles eafl of Amadan. 
DEMAY'NE,y. [demainement, old Fr.] Behaviour : 
The whiles, the faery knight did entertayne 
Another damfell of that gentle crew, 
That was right faire, and modefl of demayne. Spenfer , 
Situation : 
Where at his feet, with forrowful demayne , 
And deadlie hue, an armed corfe did lie. Spenfer. 
DEMBE'A, a large lake of Africa, in the empire of 
Abyflinia, in a province of the fame name, in the weflern 
part of that country : it is fuppofed to be 150 leagues in 
circumference, and contains many iflands, one of which 
is a place of confinement for fta-te prisoners. 
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