Law, is applied to an estate either in fee-simple, fee-tail, or for a term of life or years; and so it is commonly taken in many writs. The king's death is in law termed the demise of the king.

Demise and Redemise, denote a conveyance where there are mutual leases made from one to another of the same land, or something out of it.

Demiurge (from δημιος, which denotes a "public servant," and εργον "work"), in the mythology of the eastern philosophers, was one of the gods employed by the supreme Deity in the creation of the world. The character they gave him is a compound of shining qualities and infuorportable arrogance; and his excessive lust of empire effaces his talents and virtues. He is represented as claiming dominion over the new world he has formed, as his sovereign right; and excluding totally the supreme Deity from all concernment in it, he demands from mankind, for himself and his associates, divine honours.