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 ABBREVIATIONS. 15 De Jure M. Mallory's de jure Maritimo. D.of PI. A Defence of Pluralities. D. C. D. Comyn's Digest by Day. Dick. Dickin's Reports. Dick. Quar. Sess. Dickinson's Practical Guide to the Quarter Ses- sions. Dick. Just. Dicken's Justice. D.(') Dictum, or dicta. Dict.("') Dictionary. Dig.(") Digest of Writs, or Justiniani Digestae sive Pan- dectse. Dirl. Dirleton's Decisions in the Court of Session. Dir. Certain Directions or Resolutions of all the Judges of Assize, 1636. Doc. Doctores. Doc. Pla. Doctrina Placitandi. D. & S. Doctor and Student. Doct. Dem. Doctrine of Demurrers. _ D. C. L. Doctor of Civil Law. Dod. Dodson's Reports. Dod. Nobility. Doderidge's Nobility. Dom. Domat. Dom. Proc. Domo Procerum. In the House of Lords. Dougl. Douglas's Reports. Dougl. E. C. Douglas's Election Cases. Dow. Dow's Reports. Dow & C. Dow and Clark's Reports. D. & R. Dowling and Ryland's Reports. Dow. P. C, N. S. Dowling's Practice Cases, New Series. D. & R. N. P. C. Dowling and Ryland's Nisi Prius Cases. (1) Among the Civilians this abbreviation is used for Dictum. In the aforesaid, viz. the law or chapter before cited, or as it is sometimes expressed, d. t. dictus titulus. (m) In Scotch Law Books Morrison's Dictionary of Decisions of the Court cf Session is referred to by this abbreviation. (") The Digests in modern times are thus cited, D. 1, 1, Pj The Digest Book 1, Title 1, in Principi. D. 1, 1, 1, 4. The Digest Book 1, Title 1, Law 1, M. The Digests have one more subdivision than the Institutes. They are divided into 50 Books, each Book is divided into Titles, and each Title into Laws, and usually each Law is again subdivided into paragraphs. Like the Institutes, they were formerly cited by adducing the first words of a law, e. g. 1. 30, D. R. J., or simply L Regulis Juris, D., meaning the 30 Law of the Title in the Digest, de Regulis Juris. The Civilians are said to have been so familiar with the Roman Law, that the bare mention of the name of the Title was sufficient to suggest the Book and place where it might be found. We have an analogous method of reference when speaking of forms of process, as Habeas Corpus, Ca. Sa., &c.