de son tort demesne

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de son tort demesne - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  DE SON TORT DEMESNE, Of his own wrong, pleading. The name of a replication 
  in an action for a wrong or injury. When the defendant pleads a matter 
  merely in excuse of an injury to the person or reputation of another, the 
  plaintiff may reply de son tort demesne sans tiel cause; that it was the 
  defendant's own wrong without such cause. Vide the articles, De Injuria, and 
  Without, and also 8 Co. 69 a; Bro. h.t.; Com. Dig. Pleader, F 18.