Divortium Dicitur A Divertendo

quia vir divertitur ab uxore. Divorce Is called from divertendo, because a man is diverted from his wife. Co. Litt. 235. DIXIEME (Fr.) Tenth; the tenth part. Ord. Mar. liv. 1, tit. 1, art. 9. In Old French Law. An Income tax payable to the crown. Steph. Lect. 359. DO (Lat. I give). The ancient and aptest word of feoffment and of gift. 2 Bl. Comm. 310, 316; Co. Litt. 9. DO, DICO, ADDICO (Lat. I give, I say, T adjudge). Three words used in the Roman law to express the extent of the civil jurisdiction of the praetor. Do denoted that he gave or granted actions, exceptions, and indices; dico, that he pronounced judgment; addico, that he adjudged the controverted property, or the goods of the debtor, etc., to the plaintiff. Kaufm. Mackeld. Civ. Law, 187; Id. 24, § 35, note b; Calv. Lex. 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 modern wills. According to Calvin, who quotes Spiegelius, either of these words separately imports as much as both together. Calv. Lex.; Tayl. Civ. Law, 240. DO UT DES (Lat.) I give that you may give. Dig. 19. 4; Id. 19. 5. 5; 2 Bl. Comm. 444. DO UT FACIAS (Lat. I give that you may do; I give [you] that you may do or make [for me]). A formula in the civil law, under which those contracts were. classed, in which one party gave or agreed to give money, in consideration the other party did or performed certain work. Dig. 19. 5. 5; 2 Bl. Comm. 444. Do tibi eodicem, ut facias miM scribi disgestum, I give you a code, that you may have a digest written (or copied) for me. Bracton, fol. 19. The particle ut, in this and the foregoing phrase, is considered as denoting or expressing a consideration; so much, that Blackstone has treated them as forms of consideration. 2 Bl. Comm. ubi aujjra. Strictly, howtevfer. ut denotes that the civilians called mddvcs (qualification); quia being the particle employed to denote what they called Odusa, which is generally translated "consideration." Bracton, fol. 18b. See "Consideration;" "Causa." Britton calls these original edition is much corrupted. Britt. C.S6.