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firft a nd the reft w , order And that the Matters thus Frank-Fee, and alfo, Tenants of the Common 7>™
fubfidir* contoured tke&v^ Strata of Stone, Earth, Reafon ; becaufe Tenann ™^!«i«?SS^?2^
Coal, S&. Fourthly, That thefe iStW« were originally be fued out of the Lord's Court. '" Cann0t
all parallel, even, and regular ; and rendred the Surface of
tuation varied ; being elevated in fome Places, and re-
rc fs'd in others ; whence Mountains, Valleys, Grot- to's, & c - with the Channel of the Sea-Iflands, S>c. In cncWord, the whole Terraqueous Glohe was put, by this pifruption, and Diflocation of the Strata, into the Con now behold it in.
dant, or 'Plaintiff; viz. in Reai Actions, Demandant : and m Perfonal Actions, •Plaintiff. Add, that where the
ill P, ur '* uin g is eall!d Demandant, the Party purfued is call d Tenant ; and where Plaintiff, Defendant.
There are two Kinds of Demands, the one in T -,', de Faflo, as in every Precipe ; The other in La-.:.
Aition wc now behold it in; Sixthly, That upon the y tlr< ,.. fuch is Entrv'in Land Diftrefs for Rent &c
piftupt.on of ^Strata, and the Deprefllon of fome, y If a ' M an releafel'he! from MDel^al ' it is the
- h happen d towards beft Releafe the Relcafee can have, and (ball redound
I v™% r Jl\ h *£ ™ 0ft '? his Advantage. A Releafe of Fails is
and Elevation of other Parts, wh the End of the Deluge ; the Mafs again into the depress 'd, and loweft Parts of the Earth, into Lakes, and other Cavities, and the Channel of the Ocean ; and through the Fiifures, whereby this commu- nicates with the Abyfs, which it fiU'd till it came to an Equilibrium with the Ocean. Nat. Hift. of Earth, P.I. and II. See Fossile.
But of all the Syftems yet advanced, there feems none better calculated to folve the Phenomena of thofe petri- fied Exavite, than that of Mr. de la Pryme. The Ante- diluvian World, according to this ingenious Author, had an external Sea, as well as Land, with Mountains, Ri- vers, (Sc. and the Deluge was effected by breaking the fubterraneous Caverns, and Pillars thereof, with dread- ful Earthquakes, and caufing the fame to be for the mod Part, if not wholly, abforbed and fwallowed up, and co- ver'd by the Seas that we now have. Laftly, this Earth of ours arofc out of the Bottom of the Antediluvian Sea,
large than of Quarrels, or Aftions; and a Releafe oi Be- mands, more large, and beneficial than ei ther : Eva Re- leafe of a\\ Demands to the Diffeifor, the Right of Entry into the Land, and all contain'd therein, is releafed : And he that releafeth all Demands, excludes hhnfelf from all Actions, Entries, and Seizures. But it is no Bar in a Writ ofError to releafe an Outlawry
DEMANDANT, Petens, is he who is A3or, or Plaintiff in a real Action ; Thus call'd, becaufe he de- mands Lands, %5c. See Demand.
DEMARCHUS, a Magiftrate, or Chief of a People, that is, of a Region, or Diftricr. in the Country.
The Athenians divided their Country into certain Re- gions, orDiftrifts, which they call'd An^ ; Demi, i. e. People; and eftablifh'd a Magiftrate at the Head of each, under the Denomination of AiifAstf^of, Demarches, of
ji m^ jjunum ui Liic niiicuiiu vian oca, w j , v
and in its Room ; juit as many Iflands are fwallowed up, ™£*1' , "W"
and others thiuft up in their ftead. From this Syftem, DEMEMBREE, in Heraldry, is when an Animal is
which is very agreeable to Scripture, the great Difficul- difmember'd, i, e. the Limbs cut off its Body. See Dis-
ties that clog all the other Syftems, arc eafily folved. It M ^l?S D "
is no longer a Wonder, that Shells, and Shell-Fiih, andthe DEMI, a Word of the fame Ufe and Effect in the
Bones ofFifties, and four-footed Creatures, with Fruits &c. ^ rcnch Language, with Semi, in the Latin and Englijh ;
fliould be found in Beds, and Quarries, in Mountains' and be]n § form ' d from dimidntm, and ufed in Compoiition
Valleys, and the very Bowels of the Earth : For here with other Words, to fighifie haW.
In Words borrowed from the Lathis, we ufe Semi, and
I they bred in the Antediluvian Sea, thither they were ele- vated with the Hills and Mountains, in the Time of the ^Deluge ; there they fell into, were abforbed, and buried in Chafms, and Holes, and Clefts, that would neceffarily happen in the Extrailon of the Earth. Lo<wtfa. Abridg. mihfofh. TranfaB. V. III. p. 428.
DEMAIN, or DEMEAN, or DEMEASN, or DE- MESNE, in the Popular Senfe of the Word, is the Lord's Manour Place, wi^h the Lands thereto belonging ; which he, and his Anceflors have from Time to Time kept in their own Manual Occupation. See Manour.
DemAin, or Demesne, in a Law-Scn'e, otherwife written Doma in, fignifies, according to Hottonian, c Patri- r/imiU!niDo?mni , the Lord's Patrimony, call'd alb by the Civilians, Dominicum ; The fame Author proves thofe Lands to beDemain, which a Man holdeth originally of Tn-hes^bi
, fim-
himfelf, and thofe to be Feodum, which he holdeth of; fuperior Lord.
In England, no common Perfon has any Demah ply underftood, for all depends either mediately, or im^ mediately on the Crown ; For when a Man in Pleading, would iignify his Land to be his own, he faith, That he 'is, or was feiz'd thereof in hlsDemain, as of Fee 5 where- by he means, that, although his Land be to him, and his Heirs for ever, yet it is no true Remain, but depends upon a fuperior Lord, and he holdeth by Service, or Rent, 5n lieu of Service, or by both Service and Rent.
The
in thofe from the French, we retain their 'Demi. ' Sei Semi.
Demi, or Demy, in Heraldry, fignifies the half of any Thing ; as, a Demy-Lion, &c. Colomhiere has what he calls Croiz & demy, a Crofs and an half j being a Shaft crofs 'd in the upper Part like the Calvary Crofs, and having but one Arm at the lower Part. See Cross.
DEMI- Air, or Demi-Volt, in Horfemanfhip, is one of the feven artificial Motions of anHorfe, being an Air, in which its Fore-parts are more raifed than in -Terra a Terra, but the Motion of rhe Horfes Legs is more quick in the latter, than in the Demi-Volt.
D^Mi-Safiion, is aKind ofFortification, that hasonly one Face, and one Flank. See Bastion.
T)zM.i-Cano?2, a Piece of Ordnance, ufually about 6
iore, and 5400 Pound Weight 5 10 or ii^Foot
- a Shot of go Pound Weight. See Ca-
long, and carryii
NON, antfOnDNANCE.
It carries Point blank 150 Paces 5 its Charge of Powder is 14. Pound Weight.
There are alfo two Sizes of Demi-Canon above this,
which are fomething larger, as the ordinary Demi-Ca~
non, which is 6 Inches j bore, 12 Foot long, weighs
5600 Pound ; its Charge of Powder is 1 7 Pound 8 Ounces,
carries a Shot 6 Inches and a half Diameter, and whofe
Weightis 52 Pound, and this Piece Ihoots blank i6z Paces.
Demi-Canon of the JarqeftSize, i^ 6 Inches % bore, iz
he Word is iomctimes alio taken more largely tor r t , r . n , , Tr - 1 . ■ j-,, . nT . .
T j Jrr , l 'ur t t «• j r ■ £° ot l° n£ 5) °» ^° 00 Pound Weight : its Charge is iS Pound
Lands, and Tenements, held for Life, <5>c and fometimes r-n ^ ' ■ •
more ftri&ly, for fuch only as are generally held in Fee. It is fometimes again ufed for a DiftinCHon between thofe Lands that the Lord of a Manour has in his own Hands, or in the Hands of his Leffee, demifed upon a Rent, for Term of Years, or Life; and fuch other Lands, pertaining to the faid Manour, which belongs to the Free, or Copy-holders. And the Reafon why the Copy-hold accounted Dema '
of Powder, and it carries 180 Paces.
DiiAi-Culvering, \s a Piece of Ordnance, commonly 4^ Inches bore, 10 Foot long, of 2700 Pound Weight; its Charge is 7 Pound 4 Ounces ofpowder ; and it carries a Shot of 10 Pound, n Ounces; and JTioots Point blank 175 Paces: Demi-Ctilvering of the leaft Size, is 42 Inches bore, 10 Foot long, of 2000 Pound Weight;
that becaufe they, who are Te- carries a Ball of 4 Inches Diameter, its Charge is 6 Pound 4 Ounces of Powder, and its level Range is 174 Paces. Demi-Culvering of the elder Sort, is 4 Inches £■ bore,
10 Foot long, its Charge of Powder is 8 Pound, and 8 Ounces, the Ball is 4i Inches Diameter, weighs 12 Pound
11 Ounces, and the Point blank Ihoots 17S Paces. See Ordnance, and Culvering.
Demi-Go.^, &c. See Si.Mi-God.
DzMi-Gorge, in Fortification, is half the Gorge, or En- trance into theBaftion; not taken directly from Angle to Angle, where the Baftion joins to the Court me, but
nants to it, are judged in Law to have no other Right, but at the Will of the Lord : fo that it is reputed frill, after a Sort, to be in the Lord's Hands : And yet in common Speech that is ordinarily call'd Demain, that is, neither Eee, nor Copy.
Demain, again, is us'd in a more Special Signification, inOppofitionto Frank-Fee: Thus, Thofe Lands, which were in the Poffcffion of Edttard the Confeffbr, are call'd, 4ncient Remain, and others are call'd, Frank-Fee ; and the Tenants, which hold any of thc r e Lands, ar-- call'd,
Tenants in ancient Demain, ai:d the others, T - #UtS in from the Angle of the Flank, to the Centre or the Baition,
