A Law Dictionary and Glossary

In civil and Scots law. A tenement in favor of which a servitude is constituted.

I. I In old English law. Demesne, demain or domain; that of which one was lord or master; demesne lands, lauds which remained under the lord's immediate control; the estate of a fr

I. Property; domain. Dominium directum et utile: the complete and absolute dominion in property. Dominium eminens: eminent domain. Dominium nou potest esse in pendenti: property ca

I In old English law. A master or principal. Dominus mens est promptus ^t paratus: my client is ready and prepared. In feudal and ecclesiastical law. A lord, or feudal superior; lo

I. In old English law. Of a tame or subdued nature or disposition, — applied to tame domestic animals in which a man may have an absolute property.

I. In old English law. A house or dwelling; a habitation; a residence or domicil. Domus capitularis: a chapter house; the chapterhouse. Domus com petens: a suitable housa Domus cou

I. In civil and old English law. To give; to make a gift; Donari videtur qnod, nu Uojnre cogente, conceditur: that is considered to be given which is granted without the obligation

I. I. In old English law. A donea

Lat. In old English law. A gift of either lands or chattels. Donatio absoluta et larga: an absolute and unlimited gift, as to a man and his heirs generally. Donatio causa mortis: a

In ecclesiastical law. A mode of acquiring a benefice by deed of gift alone.

v, Advowson.

I. In civil and old English law. A donor or giver. Donatorius, or donatarins: a donee; a person to whom a gift is made; a purchaser. Donatur nnnquam desinit possidere, anteqnam don

don, doun, I. fr. In old English law. A gift Don est un nosme general pins que ne fel Tement: gift is a more general name than feoffment

donee, I. fr. In old English law. Given. Done a Londres, etc.: given at London, etc. Donees a Gaunt, etc.: given at Ghent, etc.

I. Until. Donee unanimi fuerint et Concordes: until they shall be unanimous and agreed. In old English law. He to whom a donatio was made; he to whom lands or tenements were given

The person who confers a power. In old English law. He who made a donatio; he who gave lands or tenements to another in tail

donques, adonques, done, dune, donk, dunk, dunky, I. fr. Then. Douqnes Tirant: then living.

I In the civil law. A gift; a free gift.

dome. In Scots law. Judgment; sentence; the judgment of a court, formerly pronounced by the mouth of an ofl Bcer called a dempster.

Sleeping; not active; not apparent; not known. Dormant partner: a partner whose name is not known or does not appear, but who partakes of the profits, and thereby becomes a partner

nunqnam moriuntnr, 2, The laws sometimes sleep, but never die.

I. In old English law. The property or portion which a freeman gave his wife at the door of the church, in consideration of the nuptials about to take place, and the burden of matr

fr. In the civil law. Dowry, or marriage portion.

Relating to the marriage portion of a woman. Dotale preedium: the dotal estate.

I. I. In canon and feudal law. Dower.

L fr. In old English law. Endowment

Twofold; additional; duplicated. single costs of suit, and the same or some in addition. Double insurance: a second upon the same interest against-the same person, and in excess of

doubter, t fr. To doubt; to fear or

Entitled to be endowed.

In English law. A widow who jointure.

Tliat portion of a man's lands which upon his death, — usually, as by the lands of which he was seised as of an time during the marriage, where the the common issue might have inhe

I fr. Dower. Dowere ne devietz ayoir, qar vostre baroun est en Tie: dower you ought not to have, for your husband is alive.

A marriage portion; property which the wife brings her husband in marriage, v. Dos.

draught. A bill of exchange; an instrument or paper as first, or originally drawn.

To write in form, as a deed, or will; to take from a place of deposit, as money from a bank; to select by lot, as to draw the names of jurors. In English law. To drag on a hurdle t

A remission of money paid for taxes, freight, or the like; a refunding of duties on the re-exportation of imported goods.

The person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn.

The person who draws a bill of exchange.

In old English law. Thieves or robbers.

drenges. In old Enfflish law. A species of tenants mentioned in Domesday book, supposed to have been military vassals or tenants by knight-service.

In old English law. The tenure by which the drenches held their lands.

In old English law. A driving, — a term applied to cattle. Drift of the forest: an examination or view of cattle in a forest; made periodically by the ofl Scers of the forest, by d

sax. A contribution of tenants, in the time of the Saxons, towards a potation of ale, provided to entertain the lord or his steward, v. Uervisarii.

A species of servitude consisting of a right to let waters flowing from a roof fall or drip on the servient estate, v. Stillicidium.

drudi, I. I In old feudal law. A species of vassal.

drofden, sax. A grove, or woody place, where cattle were kept

sax. A quit rent, or yearly payment, formerly made for driving cattle through a manor to fairs or markets.

droict, dreit, I. fr. Right; justice; the law; a writ of right Droit ne done pinis que soit deinaunde: the law gives not more than is demanded. Droit ne poet pas morier: right cann

droiturele, droitural, droiturelle, I. fr. In old English law. Relating to right, or, more strictly, title as distinguished from right of possession.

I. fr. In old English law. Eight; justice.

In Scots law. A road for driving cattle; a drift-road. Drove-stance: a place adjoining such a road, for resting and refreshing cattle.

In English law. A pretended exchange, upon which, in truth, nothing passed but on one side, — said to have been designed as a cover for usury. Dry rent: v. Bent seek. In Scots law.

I. Of doubtful law.

dnbitante, I. Doubting. Dubitatur: it is doubted. Dubitavit: doubted.

1 1. Bring you with you, — applied to writs, where a party summoned to appear in court is required to bring with him some piece of evidence, or other thing that the court would vie

An English court of special jurisdiction, held before the chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, or his deputy, concerning all matter of equity relating to lands held of the king in

v. Castigatory; Cudking stool.

That which one owes; that which one ought to pay, or do to or for another; payable; owed or owing, as distinguished from payable, formal or regular. Due care: where the gist of the

I In old English and Scots law. The judicial combat, or trial by battel. Greai

In due or proper form, or manner; regularly; according to requirement of law.

I. While. Dum ferret opus: while the work glows; in the heat of action. Dum sola: while sole, or single; — luerit: while she shall remain sole; — et casta vixerit: while she lives

I. Provided that; so that. Dummodo constat de persona: so that it be clear as to the person meant. Dummodo solverit talem redditum: provided he shall pay such a rent. Duo nou possn

I. In old English law. Double. Duplex querela: a double complaint, or double quarrel; a complaint in the nature of an appeal, made to the archbishop of the province, against an inf

I. To double or repeat; to make in two parts, as, the old charters were executed.

That which is doubled, or twice made; an original instrument repeated.

I. I. During. Durante Ibeneplacito: during good judges in the superior courts missions. Durante casta Durante minore setate: during widowhood. Durante rante vita: during life.

Duresse, I. fr., Duritia, gree of constraint which is son of ordinary firmness. imprisonment of a person, order to compel him to do Duress per minas: duress and menaces inducing fe

One who subjects

A thing due; that which person owes to another; a portation or exportation of

Z. In the Soman any office, or perform any annual magistrates in the ers. Duumviri navales: the navy.

A building occupier and his family cluster of buildings in which

Declarations in expectation of immediate a homicidal act by which issue: at common law, an Double the price of a thing. Daplicationem possibilitatis lex non allow the doubling of a

enfreinder, I. fr. To freint: broiien.

I. In the civil law. A calendar, a book of accounts; a book of accounts of money loaned out on interest, — so called because the interest was received on the calends of each month.

In English law. Such grass as remains after mowing, and until the feast of the Annunciation. Earl". The most ancient title of nobility in England, and formerly the highest, but now

karle, carl, sax. In Saxon and old English law. A man; a serving man.

The office, jurisdiction or dignity of an earl.

A mark put upon a thing to distinguish it from another, — originally a mark put upon the ear, as a mode of distinguishing animails.

A part of the price of goods sold, or a portion of the goods themselves, delivered by one of the parties to a contract of sale to the other, to bind the bargain.

A privilege in land, without profit, existing distinct from an ownership of the soil.

In English law. One of the four annual terms of the superior courts, beginning on April 15th and ending on May 8th.

I. I. Let him go thence without day, — words used in recording judgment for a defendant

In English law. The offense of listening under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, and thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales, — a misdemeanor at common law.

1. 1. In old English law. Ebb. Ebba et fluctns: ebb and flow of tide; ebb and flood.

eberemorth, sax. In Saxon law. Open killing or murder, as distinguished from manslaughter, v. Aberemurder.

gr.-l. An effusion of blood under the skin.

I In English law. A church; a place of religious worship; a parsonage, the living or beneflce. Ecclesia ecclesise decimas solvere non debet: the church ought not to pay tithes to t

Belonging to or connected with the church. Ecclesiastical law: law administered bj the ecclesiastical courts, — in England compounded of the civil law, the canon law, the common la

In Scots laiv. A citation published at the marketcross of Edinburgii, and the pier and shore of Leith.

I. In the Roman law. An edict; a mandate or ordinance; an ordinance or law enacted by the emperor without the senate; a general order published by the praetor, on entering upon off

seditns, I. In old English law. Put forth; published or promulgated; passed as a law; brought forth or born, as a child.

Instruction of the mental, moral and physical powers and faculties, or of any of them. /

I. In old English law. To go back; to recede; to draw back; to retire or be dismissed from court Eecedet inde reus qnietus imperpetnnm, I. The defendant shall go quit thereof forev

1. 1. In old English law. A person impaneled on an assise.

rettare, retare, 1. 1. In old English law. To accuse; to charge.

1. Right; upright; straight; straight forward; direct Bectns in curia: right in court; free from charge or impeachment

I. In the Soman law. Persons appointed by the prsetor, in private actions, to examine the facts, or try the cause.

I. I. To release. Relaxavi, relax asse: have released,

I. In the civil law. Banishment without the loss of civil rights.

rerener, /. fr. To come back; to return.