Law Dictionary

The terms “State of domicile” and “domiciliary State” mean, with respect to an insurer or reinsurer, the State in which the insurer or reinsurer is incorporated or entered through,

the burden is on the taxpayer who contends that some portion of its total assets are beyond the reach of the taxing power of its domicile to prove that the same property may be sim

To fix or establish a domicile.

In Spanish law. The acquisition of domiciliary rights and status, nearly equivalent to naturalization, which may be accomplished by being born in the kingdom, by conversion to the

Lat Domicile, (q. v.)

That of one’s own selection.

One,s birthplace.

One’s birthplace.

Power over another; also danger. Bracton, lib. 4, tit. 1, c. 10.

A title given to honorable women, who anciently, in their own right of inheritance, held a barony. Cowell.

the 'dominance' of the theme is a question of constitutional fact

That to which a servitude or easement is due, or for the benefit of which it exists. Distinguished from "servient," that from which it is due. See "Easement."

the federal statutes 'touch a field in which the federal interest is so dominant that the federal system (must) be assumed to preclude enforcement of state laws on the same subject

The dominant power of the federal Government, as has been repeatedly held, extends to the entire bed of a stream, which includes the lands below ordinary high water mark. The exerc

the dominant servitude, in favor of the United States, under which private persons hold physical properties obstructing navigable waters of the United States and all rights to use

In civil and Scotch law. A term used in the constitution of servitudes, meaning the tenement or subject in favor of which the servitude is constituted. Bell, Diet. DOM IN ATI 0. In

A title given to honorable women, who anciently, in their own right of inheritance, held a barony. Cowell.

a dominated union is deemed inherently incapable of ever fairly representing its members

In old English law. Lordship.

Pertaining to the Sabbath.

(Dominica in ramis palmarum.) L. Lat. Palm Sunday. Townsh. Pi. 131; Cowell; Blount.

The act of killing one's lord or master. DOMINICUM (Lat. domain; demain; demesne). A lordship; that of which one has the lordship or ownership; that which remains under the lord's

A demesne; a church.

In old English law. Ancient demesne. Bracton, fol. 369b. DOMINIUM (Lat.) Perfect and complete property or ownership in a thing. Plenum in re dominium, — plena in re potestas. This

Lat. [from dominus, lord.] Of, or belonging to the king or lord. Dominicum bannum; the lord's ban, the sovereign's edict. Spelman. Dominici coloni; those tenants who were bound to

Sp. In Spanish law. A term corresponding to and derived from the Latin dominium, (q. v.) Dominio alto, eminent domain; dominio directo, immediate ownership; dominio utile, benefici

Ownership or right to property. 2 Bla. Com L "The bolder has dominion of the bill." 8 I DOMINIUM (Lat.)- Perfect and complete property or ownership in a thing. Plenum in re dominiu

ownership or proprietary rights

In the civil law. Strict ownership; that which was founded on strict law, as distinguished from equity. In later law. Property without use; the right of a landlord. Tayl. Civil Law

The complete and absolute dominion in property; the union of the title and the exclusive use. Fairfax v. Hunter, 7 Orandi, 603, 3 L. Ed. 453.

Allodial ownership; legal ownership.

Legal and equitable ownership.

if the union of the title and the exclusive use do not constitute the dominium directum & utile, the complete and absolute dominion in property, it will not be easy to fix any whic

Eminent domain. Tayl. Civ. Law, 463. DOMINIUM NON POTEST ESSE IN pendenti. Lordship cannot be in suspense, i. e., property cannot remain in abeyance. Halk. Max. 39.

Ownership cannot be in suspense.

Lordship cannot be in suspense, i. e., property cannot remain in abeyance. Halk. Law Max. 39.

Pull ownership; the union of the dominium directum with the dominium utile. Tayl. Civ. Law, 478. DOMINIUM UTILE (Lat.) The beneficial ownership; the use of the property. DOMINO VOL

Equitable or beneficial ownership.

With the owner’s consent.

The act of killing one's lord or master.

Principal; lord; master.

Lat. In feudal and ecclesiastical law. A lord, or feudal superior. Dominus rex; the lord the king; the king's title as lord paramount. 1 Bl. Com. 367. Towns. Pl. 149. Dominus capit

Co. Litt. 18. The supreme lord lakes the place of the heir, as often as the blood of the tenant is extinct through deficiency or crime.

One controlling a litigation.

In the civil law. The owner of a vessel. Dig. 39. 4. 11. 2. DOMINUS NON MARITABIT PUPILLUM nisi semel. A lord cannot give a ward In marriage but once. Co. Litt. 9. DOMINUS REX NULL

A lord cannot give his ward in marriage but once.

The king cannot have an equal, much less a superior.

Lat Tame; domesticated; not wild. Applied to domestic animals, in which a man may have an absolute property. 2 Bl. Comm. 391.

Domesticated.

Domesticated; tame.

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.

Complete ownership; absolute property." The right in a corporeal thing, from which arises the power of disposition and of claiming it from others.' Proximate dominion. Obtaining po

the term is to be understood in its distinctively legal sense—that is, to mean only legally cognizable harm.

In French law. Damages.

Dompnus. Lat The contracted form of dominus, as formerly used in the titles of emperors, <fec. Spelman. See Dominus.

A writ that lay for one against his neighbor, by the anticipated fall of whose house he feared a damage and injury to his own. Reg. Orig. 153; Termes de la Ley. DOM US (Lat.) In th

{domus procerum). The house of lords. Wharton.

A house; a dwelling; a home.

In old records. A chapter house; the chapter house. Dyer, 26b. DOMUS CONVERSORUM (Lnr Lat. the house of the converts). An ancient house or institution (Spelman calls it collegium)

An ancient house built or appointed by King Henry III. for such Jews as were converted to the Christian faith ; but King Edward III., who expelled the Jews from the kingdom, depute

Lat The house of converts. An ancient house or institution, (Spelman calls it collegium) established by Henry III. for the benefit of such Jews as were converted to the christian f

The house of God; applied to many hospitals and religious houses.

Mansion-house. See 4 Conn. 446.

The house of lords; abbreviated into Dom. Proc. or D. P. DOMUS SUA CUIQUE EST TUTISSImum refuglum. Every man's house Is his castle. 5 Coke, 91, 92; Dig. 2. 14. 18; Broom, Leg. Max.

The house of lords, abbreviated into Dom. Proc., or D.P.

One’s home is his safest refuge. See 90 111. 229.

The home of everyone is his safest refuge and asylum.

A man's house should be his safest refuge and shelter. A maxim of the Roman law. Dig. 2, 4,18.

Gifts.

3 Coke, 81. Clandestine gifts are always suspicious.

Secret gifts are always open to suspicion.

To give.

NULLI JURE cogente concedltur. That is considered to be given which is granted when no law compels. Dig. 60. 17. 82. D0NATARIU8 (Law Lat.) One to whom something is given; a donee..

That is considered as given which is transferred under no legal compulsion.

Dig. 50, 17, 82. A thing ls said to be given when it is yielded otherwise than by virtue of right

I. I. In old English law. A donea

A donee.

The term &quot;donate&quot; means to give without requiring anything of monetary value from the recipient, except that the term shall include giving by a nonprofit organization to

The term &quot;donated historical material&quot; means collections of personal papers donated or given to a Federal Presidential library or other archival repository under a deed o

The term &quot;donated land&quot; means any private land donated to the United States for conservation purposes in the Conservation Area.

The term “donating individuals” has the meaning indicated for such term in subsection (a)(1), subject to subsection (d)(1).

A gift.

Lat. [L. Fr. dofi, done, doun,] In old English law. A gift of lands or chattels. See Done, Defined by Bracton to be a " certain institution, [or established mode of conveyance,] wh

A gift by one dying, who actually dies. See 122 Pa. St. 177, 9 Am. St. Rep. S3, 1 L. R. A. 535, 15 Atl. 470.

An inofficious (undutiful) gift; a gift of so great a part of the donor's property that the birthright portion of his heirs is diminished. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 469.

A gift between persons living.

A gift made by a person in sickness, who, apprehending his dissolution near, delivers, or causes to be delivered, to another the possession of any personal goods, to keep as his ow

A donation is a gift and gratuity, and not a grant of land founded on a consideration, as where the government is bound to make it by treaty stipulation conferring mutual benefits.

In the one case the entry is complete when the money is paid; in the other when the required proofs are furnished. In neither can the patent be withheld if the original entry was l

contracts, is a contract which takes place by the mutual consent of the giver, who divests himself of the thing given, in order to transmit the title of it to the donee gratuitousl

Lands reserved in Pennsylvania for its citizens who fought in the Revolution.

A gift is not presumed.

A gift is not presumed. Jenk. Cont. 100.

ALIA incepta, et non perfecta; ut si donatio, lecta fuit et concessa, ac traditio nondum fuerit subsecuta. Some gifts are perfect, others incipient and not perfect; as, if a gift w

Some gifts are complete, others either incipient or not complete, as if a gift were read and agreed upon but delivery had not yet followed.

A gift is perfected by the receipt of possession. See 2 Leigh (Va.), 837.

Dav. Ir. K. B. 75. A gift of the prince is understood without prejudice to a third party.

A gift in consideration of marriage.

A veiled or hidden gift.

v. Advowson. Donator nunquam desinit pqssidere, incipiat possidere, /. The donor until the donee begins to possess.