Legal Term Dictionary

v. To curtail or diminish, as to dock an entail.

v. To curtail or diminish, as to dock an entail. Less...

n. The cage or inclosed space in a criminal court where prisoners stand when brought in for trial. The space, in a river or harbor. Inclosed between two wharves. City of Boston v. Lecraw, 17 How. 434, 15 L. Ed. 118; Bingham v. Doane, 9 Ohio, 167. "A dock is More...

n. The cage or inclosed space in a criminal court where prisoners stand when brought in for trial. The space, in a river or harbor. Inclosed between two wharves. City of Boston v. Lecraw, 17 How. 434, 15 L. Ed. 118; Bingham v. Doane, 9 Ohio, 167. "A dock is an artificial basin in connection with a harbor, used for the reception of vessels in the taking on or discharging of their cargoes, and provided with gates for preventing the rise arid fall of the waters occasioned by the tides, and keeping a uniform level within the docks." Perry v. Haines, 191 U. S. 17, 24 Sup. Ct. 8, 48 L. Ed. 73. -Dockage. A charge against vessels for the privilege of mooring to the wharves or in the slips. People v. Roberts, 92 Cal. 659, 28 Pac. 689. A pecuniary compensation for the use of a dock while a vessel is undergoing repairs. Ives v. The Buckeye State, 13 Fed. Cas. 184. -Dock-master. An officer invested with powers within the docks, and a certain distance therefrom, to direct the mooring and removing of ships, so as to prevent obstruction to the dock entrances. Mozley & Whitley.- Dock warrant. In English law. A warrant given by dock-owners to the owner of merchandise imported and warehoused on the dock, upon the faith of the bills of lading, as a recognition of his title to the goods. It is a negotiable instrument. Pull, fort of London, p. 375. Less...

v. To abstract and enter in a book. 3 Bl. Comm. 397, 398. To make a brief entry of any proceeding in a court of justice in the docket

v. To abstract and enter in a book. 3 Bl. Comm. 397, 398. To make a brief entry of any proceeding in a court of justice in the docket Less...

n. A minute, abstract or brief entry; or the book containing such entries. A small piece of paper or parchment having the effect of a larger. Blount. In practice. A formal record, entered in brief, of the proceedings In a court of justice. A book containing an entry in brief More...

n. A minute, abstract or brief entry; or the book containing such entries. A small piece of paper or parchment having the effect of a larger. Blount. In practice. A formal record, entered in brief, of the proceedings In a court of justice. A book containing an entry in brief of all the Important acts done in court in the conduct of each case, from its Inception to its conclusion. Pub. St Mass. 1882, p. 1290. The name of "docket" or "trial docket" Is sometimes given to the list or calendar of causes set to be tried at a specified term, prepared by the clerks for the use of the court and bar. Kinds of dockets. An appearance docket is one in which the appearances in actions are entered, containing also a brief abstract of the successive steps in each action. A bar docket is an unofficial paper consisting of a transcript of the docket for a term of court, printed for distribution to members of the bar. G iff ord v. Cole, 57 Iowa, 272, 10 N. W. 672. An execution docket is a list of the executions sued out or pending in the sheriff's office. A judgment docket is a list or docket of the judgments entered in a given court, methodically kept by the clerk or other proper officer, open to public inspection, and intended to afford official notice to interested parties of the existence or lien of judgments. -Docket fee. An attorney's fee, of a fixed sum, chargeable with or as a part of the costs of the action, for the attorney of the successful party; so called because chargeable on the docket, not as a fee for making docket entries. Bank v. Neill. 13 Mont 377. 34 Pac. 180; Goodyear v. Sawyer (C. C.) 17 Fed. 2.- Docket, striking a. A phrase formerly used in English bankruptcy practice. It referred to the entry of certain, papers at the bankruptcy office, preliminary to the prosecution of the fiat against a trader who had become bankrupt. These papers consisted of the affidavit, the bond. and the petition of the creditor, and their object was to obtain from the lord chancellor his fiat, authorizing the petitioner to prosecute his complaint against the bankrupt in the bankruptcy courts. Brown. Less...

A learned man; one qualified to give instruction of the higher order in a science or art; particularly, one who has received the highest academical degree in his art or faculty, as, a doctor of laws, medicine, or theology. In colloquial language, however, the term is practically restricted to practitioners More...

A learned man; one qualified to give instruction of the higher order in a science or art; particularly, one who has received the highest academical degree in his art or faculty, as, a doctor of laws, medicine, or theology. In colloquial language, however, the term is practically restricted to practitioners of medicine. Harrison v. State, 102 Ala. 170, 15 South. 563; State v. Mc-Knigbt, 131 N. C. 717, 42 S. E. 580, 59 L. R. A. 187. This term means, simply, practitioner of physic, without respect to system pursued. A certificate of a homoepathic physician is a ''doctor's certificate." Corsi v. Maretzek, 4 E. D. Smith (N. Y.) 1. Less...

The title of a work written by St Germain in the reign of Henry VIIL in which many principles of the common law are discussed in a popular manner. It is in the form of a dialogue between a doctor of divinity and a student in law, and has always More...

The title of a work written by St Germain in the reign of Henry VIIL in which many principles of the common law are discussed in a popular manner. It is in the form of a dialogue between a doctor of divinity and a student in law, and has always been considered a book of merit and authority. 1 Kent Comm. 504; Crabb, Eng. Law, 482. Less...

An institution near St Paul's Churchyard, in London, where, for a long time previous to 1857, the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts used to be held.

An institution near St Paul's Churchyard, in London, where, for a long time previous to 1857, the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts used to be held. Less...

A rule, principle, theory, or tenet of the law; as, the doctrine of merger, the doctrine of relation, etc. Doctrinal Interpretation. See INTERPRETATION.

A rule, principle, theory, or tenet of the law; as, the doctrine of merger, the doctrine of relation, etc. Doctrinal Interpretation. See INTERPRETATION. Less...

An instrument on which is recorded, by means of letters, figures, or marks, matter which may be evidentially used. In this sense the term "document" applies to writings; to words printed, lithographed, or photographed; to seals, plates, or stones on which inscriptions are cut or engraved; to photographs and pictures; More...

An instrument on which is recorded, by means of letters, figures, or marks, matter which may be evidentially used. In this sense the term "document" applies to writings; to words printed, lithographed, or photographed; to seals, plates, or stones on which inscriptions are cut or engraved; to photographs and pictures; to maps and plans. The inscription may be on stone or gems, or on wood, as well as on paper or parchment. 1 Whart. Ev. | 614; Johnson Steel Street-Rail Co. v. North Branch Steel Co. (C. C.) 48 Fed. 194; Arnold v. Water Co., 18 R. I. 189, 26 Atl. 55, 19 L. R. A. 602; Hayden v. Van Cortlandt, 84 Hun, 150, 32 N. Y. Supp. 507. In the plural, the deeds, agreements, title-papers, letters, receipts, and other written instruments used to prove a fact. In the civil law. Evidence delivered in the forms established by law, of whatever nature such evidence may be. The term is, however, applied principally to the testimony of witnesses. Sav. Dr. Rom. f 165. -Ancient documents. Deeds, wills, and other writings more than thirty years old are so called; they are presumed to be genuine without express proof, when coming from the proper custody.-Foreign document. One which was prepared or executed in, or which comes from, a foreign state or country.-Judicial documents. Proceedings relating to litigation. They are divided into (1) judgments, decrees, and verdicts: (2) depositions, examinations, and inquisitions taken in the course of a legal process; (3) writs, warrants, pleadings, etc., which are incident to any judicial proceedings. See 1 Starkie, Ev. 252.-Public document. A state paper, or other instrument of public importance or interest, issued or published by authority of congress or a state egislature. Also any document or record, evidencing or connected with the public business or the administration of public affairs, preserved in or issued by any department of the government. See Hammatt v. Emerson, 27 Me. 335, 46 Am. Dec. 598.-Documentary evidence. Such evidence as is furnished by written instruments, inscriptions, documents of all kinds, and also any inanimate objects admissible for the purpose, as distinguished from "oral" evidence, or that delivered by human beings viva voce. Less...

Lat. In Roman law. A subdivision of the as, containing nine "un-cice; the proportion of nine-twelfths, or three-fourths. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note.

Lat. In Roman law. A subdivision of the as, containing nine "un-cice; the proportion of nine-twelfths, or three-fourths. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note. Less...