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Name Term description
NameDec. Term description

Deceased

NameDecree or decreet Term description

The final judgement or sentence of a court.

NameDecreet of cognitionis causa Term description

The pronouncement of a court ascertaining the amount of a debt to be paid out of the deceaseds estate by the heirs to a creditor; upon obtaining this, the creditor may be confirmed as executor of the estate.

NameDeed Term description

In the most usual Scottish sense, a formal written document in a set form which gives the terms of an agreement, contract or obligation; for practical purposes, any document which isn't a sasine or concerned with the transfer of heritable property.

NameDefunct Term description

The deceased person

NameDeponent Term description

Someone who makes a deposition before a court.

NameDeposition Term description

The testimony of a witness put down in writing.

NameDiligence Term description

The application of legal means against a person, especially for the recovery of debt; a warrant issues by a court to enforce the appearance of witnesses or the production of writings.

NameDom. Term description

Domicile[d]

NameDomicills Term description

Household goods

NameDonator Term description

The receiver of a donation, usually where the rightful succession has failed.

NameDsp Term description

Decessit sine prole, died without issue

NameDrap/drop Term description

A unit of weight. 16 drops or draps were equal to 1 ounce in Scots Troy weight. For more information, see our guide to <a href="/guides/weights-and-measures">weights and measures</a>.

NameDecay Term description

Pulmonary tuberculosis

NameDeen, to be Term description

Close to death

NameDefluxion Term description

Running discharge

NameDirliebane Term description

Funny bone, humerus

NameDisjaskit Term description

Depressed, fatigued

NameDonsie Term description

Sickly

NameDoon lyin' Term description

Confinement or state of lying-in prior to giving birth.

NameDridland Term description

Having diarrhoea

NameDroddum Term description

Buttocks

NameDrone Term description

Buttocks

NameDropsy Term description

Accumulation of fluids in the body

NameDrumlie Term description

Cloudy with sediment