The susceptibility of being divided. 2. A contract cannot, in general, be divided in such a manner that an action may be brought, or a right accrue, o...
Eng. law. A particular and ascertained part of a county. In Lincolnshire, division means what riding does in Yorkshire....
When, in a company or society, the parties having a right to vote are so divided that there is not a plurality of the whole in favor of any particular...
The dissolution of a marriage contracted between a man and a woman, by the judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, or by an act of the legislat...
practice. A formal record of judicial proceedings. 2. The docket should contain the names of the parties, and a minute of every proceeding in the case...
A building in London used for a college of civilians. Here the judge of the court of arches, the judge of the admiralty, and the judge of the court of...
evidence. The deeds, agreements, title papers, letters, receipts, and other written instruments used to prove a fact. Among the civilians, by document...
A well known domestic animal. In almost all languages this word is, a term or name of contumely or reproach. See 3 Bulst. 226, 2 Mod. 260, 1 Leo. 148,...
civil law. This word is used in the first chapter, first section, of the second Novel, and signifies an ordinance of the senate. See also Dig. 27, 1, ...
Capable of deceit, mischief, having knowledge of right and wrong. See Discretion, Criminal law, 2....
money. A silver coin of the United States of the value of one hundred cents, or tenth part of an eagle. 2. It weighs four hundred and twelve and a hal...
civil law. A fraudulent address or trick used to deceive some one, a fraud. Dig. 4, 3, 1, Code, 2, 21. 2. Dolus differs from fault in this, that the l...
It signifies sometimes, dominion, territory governed - sometimes, possession, estate - and sometimes, land about the mansion house of a lord. By domai...
A book in which Alfred the Great, of England, after uniting the Saxon heptarchy, collected the various customs dispersed through the kingdom, and dige...
An ancient record made in the time of William the Conqueror, and now remaining in the English exchequer, consisting of two volumes of unequal sizes, c...
Those who reside in the same house with the master they serve the term does not extend to workmen or laborers employed out of doors. 5 Binn. R. 167, M...
The place where a person has fixed his ordinary dwelling, without a present intention of removal. 10 Mass. 488, 8 Cranch, 278, Ersk. Pr. of Law of Sco...
estates. In the civil law, this term is used to signify the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, for example, where the...
The right of the owner of a thing to use it or dispose of it at his pleasure. See Domain, 1 Whites New Coll. 85, Jacobs Intr. 39....
empire, domain. It is of three kinds: 1, Directum dominium, or usufructuary dominion, dominium utile, as between landlord and tenenant, or, 2. It is t...
Subdued, tame,. not wild, as, animals domitae, which are tame or domestic animals....
the name of an ancient writ in favor of a party who was in danger of being injured by the fall, of his neighbors house....
contracts, legacies. A gift in prospect of death. When a person in sickness, apprehend ing his dissolution near, delivers, or causes to be delivered t...
contracts. The act by which the owner of a thing, voluntarily transfers the title and possession of the same, from himself to another person, without ...
Vivos, contracts. A contract which takes place by the mutual consent, of the giver, who divests himself of the thing given in order to transmit the ti...
He to whom a gift is made, or a bequest given, one who is invested with a power to select an appointee, he is sometimes called an appointer. DONIS, ST...
He who makes a gift. (q. v.)...
This word formerly signified a judgment. T. L....
One who is a participant in the profits of a firm, but his name being concealed, his interest is not apparent. See Partners,...
The place of usual entrance in a house, or into a room in the house. 2. To authorize the breach of an outer door in order to serve process, the proces...
This French word is adopted in Louisiana. It signifies the fortune, portion, or dowry, which a woman brings to her hushand by the marriage. 6 N. S. 46...
By the civil law, and in Louisiana, by this term is understood that property, which the wife brings to the hushand to assist him in bearing the expens...
French law. The act by which the founder of a hospital, or other charity, endows it with property to fulfil its destination....
Span. law. The property which the wife gives to the hushand on account of marriage. 2. It is divided into adventitia and profectitia, the former is th...
Eng. law. The name of a writ which lay in favor of a widow, when it was found by office that the kings tenant was seised of tenements in fee or fee ta...
The name of a writ of dower which a widow sues against the tenant, who bought land of her hushand in his lifetime, and in which her dower remains, of ...
Twofold, as, double cost, double insurance, double plea....
practice. According to the English law, when double costs are given by the statute, the term is not to be understood, according to its literal import,...
A term used among merchants to signify that books of account are kept in such a manner that they present the debit and credit of every thing. The term...
contracts. Where the insured makes, two insurances on the same risk, and the same interest. 12 Mass. 214. It differs from re-insurance in this, that i...
The alleging, for one single purpose, two or more distinct grounds of defence, when one of them would be as effectual in law, as both or all. Vide Dup...
A common recovery is sometimes suffered with double voucher, which occurs when the person first vouched to warranty, comes in and vouches over a third...
When a tenant, bound to repair, suffers a house to be wasted, and then unlawfully fells timber to repair it, he is said to commit double waste. Co. Li...
The uncertainty which exists in relation to a fact, a proposition, or other thing, or it is an equipoise of the mind arising from an equality of contr...
The name of a well known bird. 2. Doves are animals ferae naturae, and not the subject of larceny, unless they are in the owners custody, as, for exam...
A widow endowed, one who has a jointure. 2. In England, this is a title or addition given to the widows of princes, dukes, earls, and other noblemen....
An estate for life, which the law gives the widow in the third part of the lands and tenements, or hereditaments of which the hushand, was solely seis...
This is a writ of right in its nature. It lies only against the tenant of the freehold. 12 Mass. 415 2 Saund. 43, note 1, Hen. & Munf. 368 F. N. B. 14...
A woman entitled to dower. 2. In order to entitle a woman to the rights of a dowress at common law, she must have been lawfully married, her hushand m...
Formerly applied to mean that which a woman brings to her hushand in marriage, this is now called a portion. This word is sometimes confounded with do...
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