Divortium

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.