Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In old law, last: as, darrein continuance; darrein presentment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Law) Last.
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- adjective law
last
Etymologies
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Old French darrein, darrain, from an assumed Latin deretranus; Latin de + retro back, backward.
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Examples
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T N debt on a bond, the defendant puis darrein continuance Payment of part,
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A difference between an aflife of darrein fre/mtmentf and a quare imftdit: in the former, the laft prefcntation is traverfa - ble; but in the latter, the matter only is t - averfiWe, - 687
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And there are four writs of ajfife: an affile of novel dif - feifin, an affile of mart d'ancejlor, an affile of darrein prefentment, and an affife of juris utrum.
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