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de excusationibus (dee ek-skyoo-zay-shee-oh-ni-b<<schwa>>s). [Latin “of excuses”] Roman law. The first title of the 27th book of the Digest, containing a person’s legal excuses from serving as  tutor  or  curator.  •  It  is  primarily  drawn  from  the  Greek  work  of  Herennius  Modestinus.  See DIGEST(2). [Blacks Law 8th]

de  excommunicato  recapiendo  (dee  eks-k<<schwa>>-myoo-ni-kay-toh  ri-kap-ee-en-doh), n.[Law  Latin  “for  retaking  an  excommunicated  person”]  Hist.  Eccles.  law.  A  writ  ordering  the rearrest  of  an  excommunicated  person  who  had  been  released  but  had  not  reconciled  with  the church or given security for a reconciliation. [Blacks Law 8th]

de     excommunicato     deliberando     (dee     eks-k<<schwa>>-myoo-ni-kay-toh     di-lib-<< schwa>>-ran-doh), n.[Law Latin “for delivering an excommunicated person”] Hist. Eccles. law. A writ releasing an excommunicated person from prison upon a certification by the person’s superior that the person has reconciled with the church. [Blacks Law 8th]

de excommunicato capiendo (dee eks-k<<schwa>>-myoo-ni-kay-toh kap-ee-en-doh), n.[Law Latin  “for  taking  an  excommunicated  person”]  Hist.  Eccles.  law.  A  writ  ordering  a  sheriff  to imprison an excommunicated person until the person reconciled with the church. • It was replaced by the writ de contumace capiendo. See DE CONTUMACE CAPIENDO. [Blacks Law 8th]

de  eve  et  de  treve  (d<<schwa>>  ev  ay  d<<schwa>>  trev).  [Law  French]  Hist.  From grandfather and great-grandfather’s great-grandfather. • This phrase described the ancestral rights of lords to their villeins. [Blacks Law 8th]

de eu et trene (d<<schwa>> yoo ay trayn). [French] Hist. Of water and whip of three cords. • This term referred to a neife who, as a servant, could be corporally punished. See NEIFE. [Blacks Law 8th]

de estrepamento (dee e-strep-<<schwa>>-men-toh), n.[Law Latin “of enstrepment”] Hist. A writ to prevent waste by a tenant while a suit to recover the land is pending against the tenant. • Because this writ was only auxiliary to a real action to recover land, and because equity afforded the same relief by injunction, the writ fell…

de  estoveriis  habendis  (dee  es-t<<schwa>>-veer-ee-is  h<<schwa>>-ben-dis),  n.[Law  Latin “for  having  estovers”]  Hist.  A  writ  allowing  a  wife  divorced  a  mensa  et  thoro  (“from  bed  and board”) to recover alimony or estovers. — Often shortened to estoveriis habendis. “In  case  of  divorce  a  mensa  et  thoro,  the  law  allows  alimony  to  the  wife  which  is  that…

de  essonio  de  malo  lecti  (dee  e-soh-nee-oh  dee  mal-oh  lek-tI),  n.[Law  Latin  “of  essoin  of malum  lecti (sickness  of  bed)”]  Hist.  A  writ ordering  a  determination  whether  a  person  is truly sick  after  the  person  has  issued  an  essoin  claiming  sickness  as  an  excuse  for  not  appearing  in court. [Blacks Law 8th]

de essentia (dee e-sen-shee-<<schwa>>). [Law Latin] Hist. Of the essence; essential. [Blacks Law 8th]