Dormant Judgment

One that has become inoperative so far as the right to issue execution thereon is concerned. General Electric Co. v. Hurd, 171 Fed. 984. See Judgment. DOS (Lat). In Roman Law. That which is received by or promised to the husband from the wife, or any one else by her influence, for sustaining the burdens of matrimony. There are three classes of dos. Dos profectitia is that which is given by the father or any male relative from his property or by his act; dos adventitia is that which is given by any other person or from the property of the wife herself; dos receptitia is where there is a stipulation connected with the gift relating to the death of the wife. Vicat; Calvinus, Lex.; Du Cange; 1 Washb. R. P. 147. In English Law. The portion bestowed upon a wife at her marriage by her husband. 1 Washb. R. P. 147; 1 Cruise, Dig. 152. Dower generally. The portion which a widow has in the estate of her husband after his death. Park, Dower. This use of the word in the English law, though, as Spelman shows, not strictly correct, has still the authority of Tacitus (de Mor. Germ. 18) for its use. And if the general meaning of marriage portion is given to it, it is strictly as applicable to a gift from the husband to the wife as to one from the wife to the husband. It occurs often, in the phrase dos de dote peti non debet (dower should not be sought of dower). 1 Washb. R. P. 209. DOS RATIONABILIS (Lat). 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 Bla. Com. 134. DOSSIER (Fr.). A brief; a bundle of papers. DOT (a French word adopted in Louisiriage. Buisson v. Thompson, 7 Mart. La. (N. S.) 4G0.

One which has not been satisfied, nor extinguished by lapse of time, but which has remained s0 long unexecuted that execution cannot now be issued upon it without first reviving the judgment.