Legal Term Dictionary

See DOMESDAY-BOOK.

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The place of usual entrance in a house, or into a room in the house. State v. McBeth, 49 Kan. 584, 31 Pac. 145.

The place of usual entrance in a house, or into a room in the house. State v. McBeth, 49 Kan. 584, 31 Pac. 145. Less...

Literally, sleeping; hence inactive; in abeyance; unknown; concealed. -Dormant claim. One which is in abeyance.-Dormant execution. One which a creditor delivers to the sheriff with directions to levy only, and not to sell until further orders, or until a junior execution is received. -Dormant judgment. One which has not been More...

Literally, sleeping; hence inactive; in abeyance; unknown; concealed. -Dormant claim. One which is in abeyance.-Dormant execution. One which a creditor delivers to the sheriff with directions to levy only, and not to sell until further orders, or until a junior execution is received. -Dormant judgment. One which has not been satisfied, nor extinguished by lapse of time, but which has remained so long unexecuted that execution cannot now be issued upon it without first reviving the judgment or one which has lost its lien on land from the failure to issue execution on it or take other steps to enforce it within the time limited by statute. 1 Black, Judgm. (2d Ed-) s 462; Draper v. Nixon, 93 Ala. 436, 8 South. 4g9._Dormant partner. See PARTNERS. Dormiunt aliquando leges, nunquam moriuntur. 2 Inst 161. The laws sometimes sleep, never die. Less...

Lat. The back. In dorso recordi, on the back of the record. 5 Coke, 44b.

Lat. The back. In dorso recordi, on the back of the record. 5 Coke, 44b. Less...

(Contracted from dormiture.) A dormitory of a convent; a place to sleep in.

(Contracted from dormiture.) A dormitory of a convent; a place to sleep in. Less...

In Roman law. Dowry; a wife's marriage portion; all that property which on marriage is transferred by the wife herself or by another to the husband with a view of diminishing the burden which the marriage wiU entail upon him. It is of three kinds. Profectitia dos is that which More...

In Roman law. Dowry; a wife's marriage portion; all that property which on marriage is transferred by the wife herself or by another to the husband with a view of diminishing the burden which the marriage wiU entail upon him. It is of three kinds. Profectitia dos is that which is derived from the property of the wife's father or paternal grandfather. That dos is termed adventitia which is not profectitia in respect to its source, whether it Is given by the wife from her own estate or by the wife's mother or a third person. It is termed receptitia dos when accompanied by a stipulation for its reclamation by the constitutor on the termination of the marriage. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, || 561, 563. In old English law. The portion given to the wife by the husband at the church door, in consideration of the marriage; dower; the wife's portion out of her deceased husband's estate In case he had not endowed her. -Dos rationabilis. A reasonable marriage portion. A reasonable part of her husband's estate, to which every widow is entitled, of lands of which her husband may have endowed her on the day of marriage. Co. Litt. 336. Dower, at common law. 2 Bl. Comm. 134. Dos do dote peti non debet. Dower ought not to be demanded of dower. Co. Litt. 31; 4 Coke, 1226. A widow is not dow-able of lands assigned to another woman in dower. 1 Hill. Real Prop. 135. Dos rationabilis vol legitima est onjns-libet mnlieris da quocunque tenemento tertia pars omninm terrarnm et tene-mentorum, quss vir suns tennit In dominio sno nt do feodo, eto. Co. Litt. 336. Reasonable or legitimate dower belongs to every woman of a third part of all the lands and tenements of which her husband was seised in his demesne, as of fee, etc. Less...

(A French word, adopted in Louisiana.) The fortune, portion, or dowry which a woman brings to her husband by the marriage.

(A French word, adopted in Louisiana.) The fortune, portion, or dowry which a woman brings to her husband by the marriage. Less...

Dotage is that feebleness of the mental faculties which proceeds from old age. It is a diminution or decay of that intellectual power which was once possessed. It is the slow approach of death; of that Irrevocable cessation, without hurt or disease, of all the functions which once belonged to More...

Dotage is that feebleness of the mental faculties which proceeds from old age. It is a diminution or decay of that intellectual power which was once possessed. It is the slow approach of death; of that Irrevocable cessation, without hurt or disease, of all the functions which once belonged to the living animal. The external functions gradually cease; the senses waste away by degrees; and the mind is imperceptibly visited by decay. Owing's Case, 1 Bland (Md.) 389, 17 Am. Dec. 311. Less...

Relating to the dos or portion of a woman; constituting her portion; comprised in her portion. -Dotal property. In the civil law, in Louisiana, by this term is understood that property which the wife brings to the husband to assist him in bearing the expenses of the marriage establishment. Extradotal More...

Relating to the dos or portion of a woman; constituting her portion; comprised in her portion. -Dotal property. In the civil law, in Louisiana, by this term is understood that property which the wife brings to the husband to assist him in bearing the expenses of the marriage establishment. Extradotal property, otherwise called "paraphernal property," is that which forms no part of the dowry. Civ. Code La. art. 2335; Fleitas v. Richardson, 147 U. S. 550, 13 Sup. Ct. 495, 37 L..Ed. 276. Less...

In canon and feudal law. Dower. Spelman, voc. "Doarlum;" Calvin. 2 Bl. Comm. 129. Used as early as A. D. 841.

In canon and feudal law. Dower. Spelman, voc. "Doarlum;" Calvin. 2 Bl. Comm. 129. Used as early as A. D. 841. Less...