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  • DOER
    In Scotch law. An agent or attorney. 1 Karnes, Eq. 325.
  • DOG-DRAW
    In old forest law. The manifest deprehension of an offender against venison in a forest, when he was found drawing after a deer by the scent of a hound led in his hand; or where a person had wounded a deer or wild beast, by shooting at him, or otherwise, More...
  • DOG-LATIN
    The Latin of illiterate persons; Latin words put together on the English grammatical system.
  • DOGGER
    In maritime law. A light ship or vessel; dogger-fish, fish brought in ships. Cowell.
  • DOGGER-MEN
    Fishermen that belong to dogger-ships.
  • DOGMA
    In the civil law. A word occasionally used as descriptive of an ordinance of the senate. See Nov. 2, 1, 1; Dig. 27, 1, 6.
  • DOING
    The formal word by which services were reserved and expressed in old conveyances; as "rendering" (reddendo) was expressive of rent. Perk, c 10, H 625, 635, 638.
  • DOITKIN, OR DOIT
    A base coin of small value, prohibited by St. 3 Hen. V. c 1. We still retain the phrase, in the common saying, when we would undervalue a man, that he is not worth a dolt. Jacob.
  • DOLE
    A part or portion of a meadow is so called; and the word has the general signification of share, portion, or the like; as "to dole out" anything among so many poor persons, meaning to deal or distribute in portions to them. Holthouse. In Scotch law. Criminal intent; evil design. More...
  • DOLES, OR DOOLS
    Slips of pasture left between the furrows of plowed land.
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