Doli

See Dolus. DOXjLAK. The unit of our currency; — money, or its equivalent.^ A silver coin weighing four hundred and twelve and one-half grains, or a gold coin weighing twenty-five and four-fifths grains, of nine-tenths pure to one-tenth alloy of each metal.' The coined dollar of the United States; a certain quantity and fineness of gold or silver, authenticated as such by the stamp of the governments See fui'ther Coin. A contract to pay in '■ dollars " means in lawful money of the United States, and cannot be explained by parol; otherwise, of a contract made in another country, or in the late Confederate States, in which last case the reference may be to " Confederate dollars." " "Dollars " will be supplied where the context shows that word omitted.'" > 3 Bl. Com. 274, 287, 295. = 3 Steph. Com. 618. s Baxter v. Doe, 142 Mass. B62 (1886); Pub. St. c. 161, § 80. * State V. City of Topeka, 36 Kan. 84 (1886), oases. See generally 20 Alb. Law J. 6-10 (1879), cases. = St Sjte V. Yates, 0. P. of Fayette Co., Ohio: 37 Alb. Law J. 232 (1888); ib. 348-50, cases. « United States v. Auken, 96 U. S. 368' (1878). ' Borie v. Trott, 5 Phila. 366, 404 (1864), Hare, J. 9 Bank of New York v. Supervisors, 7 WaU. 30 (1868), Chase, C. J. » Thornlngton v. Smith, 8 Wall. 12 (1868), Chase, 0. J.; Cooku. Lillo, 103 U. S. 792 (1880); 35 lU. 396, 440; 39 N. Y. 98; 1 W. N. C. 223; 33 Tex. 351. An instrument in the form of a promissory note for e payment of " 23.00 as per deed, 10 per cent, till,id," is a note for twenty-flve dollars.' Where a jury found " for the plaintiff in the sum of irteen hundred and ninety-nine and 48-100," it was ild that the omission of the word " dollars " was not.oh a defect as prevented rendering judgment acirding to the intent of the jmy, altlaough it would ive heen more regidar to have amended the verdict if ore judgment." Any mark commonly employed in business transitions to denote the division of figures, obviously repisenting money, into dollars and cents, is sufficient ir that purpose." "One dollar" — see Consideration, 2, Nominal. See generally Coehenct; Money; Tender, Legal; rAR.