Divortium

Divorce.

I.

In the civil and old English law. Divorce; a separation of husband and wife. Divortium sine causa, or sine ulla querela: a divorce without cause, or without any complaint. Do, I.

In old English law. I give,— the aptest word of feoffment and of gift In the civil law. Do, dico, addico: I give; I say; I adjudge, — words used to express the extent of the civil jurisdiction of the praetor. Do, lego: I give, I bequeath; or, I give and bequeath, — the formal general division under which contracts, termed innominate, were classed, in which something was given by one party as a consideration for something given by the other. Do ut facias: I give that you may do; I give [you] that you may do or make [for me], — a formula under which those contracts were classed in which one party gave or agreed to give money, in consideration that the other performed certain work.

Lat.

In the civil and old English law. Divorce; a separation of husband and wife; a going different ways, {in diversas partes.) Dig. 24. 2. Distinguished from repudium, (q. v.) Id, 50. 16. 191. See Divorce. Divortium sine causa, or sine ulla querela; a divorce without cause, or without any complaint. 2 Kent's Com, 102. Bracton appears to use divortium only to denote a separation a vinculo, or total divorce, as distinguished from a separatio thori, • Bract, fol. 92 b. To DO. This word was sometimes used in old law, in the sense of to make; both being translations of the Lat. /acere, (q. v.) Thus, "toe/olaw" and "to make law," signified the same thing. See To make. So the expression " we do you to wit," occurs as the translation of scire facimus, (we make you to know, or give you to understand.) DO. Lat. I give. The ancient and aptest word of feoffment and of gift. 2 Bl, Com. 310, 816. Co, Litt, 9. Used by Bracton in all his examples and illustrations of conveyances. Broxt, fol. 17, et passim. Probably the most ancient term of conveyance. DO, LEGO. Lat. I give, I bequeath; or, I give and bequeath. The formal words of making a bequest or legacy, in the Roman law. Titio et Seio hominem Stichum do, lego; I give and bequeath to Titius and Seius, my man Stichus. Inst, 2. 20. 8, 30, 31. The expression is literally retained in modem wills. According to Calvin, who quotes Spiegelius, either of these words separately imports as much as both together. Calv, Lex. Jur,