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  • DOMBEC , DOMBOC
    (Sax. From dom, judgment, and bee, boct a book.) Dome-book or doom-book. A name given among the Saxons to a code of laws. Several of the Saxon kings published dombocsf but the most important one was that attributed to Alfred. Crabb, Com. Law, 7. This is sometimes confounded with the More...
  • DOME
    (Sax.) Doom; sentence; judgment. An oath. The homager's oath in the black book of Hereford. Blount.
  • DOME-BOOK
    A book or code said to have been compiled under the direction of Alfred, for the general use of the whole kingdom of England; containing, as is supposed, the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. It Is said to have More...
  • DOMESDAY, DOMESDAY - BOOK
    (Sax.) An ancient record made in the time of William the Conqueror, and now remaining in the English exchequer, consisting of two volumes of unequal size, containing minute and accurate surveys of the lands in England. 2 Bl. Comm. 49, 50. The work was begun by five justices in each More...
  • DOMESMEN
    (Sax.) An inferior kind of judges. Men appointed to doom (judge) In matters in controversy. Cowell. Suitors in a court of a manor in ancient demesne, who are judges there. Blount; Whishaw; Termes de la Ley.
  • DOMESTIC
    n. Domestics, or, in full, domestic servants, are servants who reside in the same house with the master they serve. The term does not extend to workmen or laborers employed out of doors. Ex parte Meason, 5 Bin. (Pa.) 167. The Louisiana Civil Code enumerates as domestics those who receive More...
  • DOMESTIC
    adj. Pertaining, belonging, or relating to a home, a domicile, or to the place of birth, origin, creation, or transaction. -Domestic animals. Such as are habituated to live in or about the habitations of men, or such as contribute to the support of a family or the wealth of the More...
  • DOMESTICUS
    In old European law. A seneschali steward, or major domo; a judge's assistant; an assessor, (q. v.) Spelman.
  • DOMICELLA
    In old English law. A damsel. Fleta, lib. 1, c 20, ? 80.
  • DOMICELLUS
    In old English law. A better sort of servant in monasteries; also an appellation of a king's bastard.
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