DEMESNE

DEMAND, 11. In practice. To claim as one's due; to require; to ask relief. To· summon; to call in court. "Although solemnly demanded, comes not, but makes default." DEMAND, n. A: claim; the a ertion of a legal right; a legal obligation a erted in the courts. "Demand" is ~.word of art _of.an extent greater in its stgnUication than any other [s. 356]