Category: D

Literally, sleeping; hence Inactive; in abeyance; unknown; concealed

The place of usual entrance in a house, or into a room ln the house. State V. McBeth, 49 Kan. 584, 31 Pac. 145

See Domesdat-Book

Lat In the civil law. A gift; a free gift. Calvin. Distinguished from munua. Dig. 50, 16, 194

In old English law. He by

See De Domis, the Statute

In old English law. He to

The person on whom the king bestows hls right to any forfeiture that has fallen to the crown

A donee; a person to whom a gift is made; a purchaser. Bract. foL 13, et seq

A donor; one who makes a gift, (donatio

In ecclesiastical law. A

Lat A gift A transfer of the title to property to one who receives lt without paying for it Vicat. The act by which the owner of a thing voluntarily trans-fers the title and possession of the same from hlmself to another person, withont any con-sideration

A donee; one to whom something is given

Domns sna oniqne est tntissimnm ro-fngium. To every man his own house is hls safest refuge. 5 Coke, 91b; 11 Coke, 82; 3 Inst. 162. The house of every one is to him as hls castle and fortress, as well for hls defense against injury and violence as for his repose. 5 Coke, 91b; Say. […]

Lat. In the civil and old Eng-lish law. A house or dwelling; a habita-tion. Inst 4, 4, 8; Townsh. Pl. 183-185. Bennet v. Bittle, 4 Rawle (Pa.) 342

A writ that lay for one against his neighbor, by the antid* pated fall of whose house he feared a dam-age and Injury to his own. Reg. Orig. 153

In French law. Damages

Lat Tame; domesticated; not wild. Applied to domestic animals, ln which a man may have an absolute proper-ty. 2 Bl. Comm. 391

In the clvll law. The owner of a vessel. Dig- 30, 4, 11, 2

Lat. Tbe master of the suit; i. e., the person who was really and directly lnterested ln the suit as a party, as dlstlngulshed from hls attorney or advocate. Bnt the term ls also applied to one who, though not orlglnally a party, has made hlm-self such, hy lnterventlon or otherwlse, and has assumed entlre […]

In feudal and eoolcsias-tioal law. A lord, or feudal superlor. Dominus rex, the lord the king; the king’s title as lord paramount 1 Bl. Comm. 867. Dominus capitalis, a chlef lord. Dominus medius, a mesne or intermedlate lord. Dominus ligius, liege lord or soverelgn. Id

Lat The own-er belng willing; with* the consent of the owner

In the civil and old Eng-lish law. ownership; property ln the larg-est sense, including both the right of prop-erty and the right of possession or use

Sp. In Spanlsh law. A term corresponding to and derlved from the Latin dominium, (q. v.) Dominio alto, eminent domain; dominio directo, immediate ownership; dominio utile, beneficial owner-ship. Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 556

In old

Lat. Domain; dem a in ; demesne. A lordship. That of which one has the lordship or ownership. That which

The act of killing one’s lord or master

In old English law. Lordship

NA, (DAME.) A title given to honorable women, who andently, in their own right of inheritance, held a- barony. Cowell

In old Engllsh law. Power over another; also danger. Bract, t 4, t. 1, c. 10

Lat Domicile, (q. V

In Spanish law. The acquisition of domiciliary rights and status, nearly equivalent to naturalization, which may be accomplished by belng born in the kingdom, by conversion to the Cath-olic faith there, by taking up a permanent residence in some settlement and marrying a native woman, and by attaching oneself to the soil, purchasing or acquiring […]

Established in a given domicile; belonging to a given state or jur-lsdiction by right of domicile

That place ln which a man has voluntarily fixed the habitation of hlm-self and family, not for a mere speclal or temporary purpose, hut with the present in-tentlon of maklng a permanent home, untll some unexpected event shall occur to Induce him to adopt some other permanent home. In re Gameau, 127 Fed. 677, 62 […]

In old English law. A better sort of servant in monasteries; also an appellatlon of a king’s bastard

In old European law. A seneschal, steward, or major domo; a judge’s assistant; an assessor, (q. v.) Spel-man

(Sax.) An inferior kind of judges. Men appointed to doom (judge) in matters in controversy. Cowell. Suitors in a court of a manor in ancient demesne, who are judges there. Blount; whishaw; Termes de ia Ley

(Sax.) An ancient record made in the time of william the Conqueror, and now remain-ing in the English exchequer, consisting of two volumes of unequal size, containing mi-nute and accurate surveys of the lands in England. 2 Bl. Comm. 49, 50. The work was begun by five justices in each county in 1081, and finished […]

A book or code said to have been compiled nnder the direction of Alfred, for the general use of the whole kingdom of England; containing, as is sup-posed, the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. It is said to have been extant so late as […]

(Sax.) Doom; sentence; judg-fnent. An oath. The homager’s oath in the black book of Hereford. Blonnt

(Sax. From dom, judgment, and bec, boc, a book.) Dome-book or doom-book. A name given among the Saxons to a code of laws. Sev-eral of the Saxon kings published dombocs, but tlie most important one was that nttrib-uted to Alfred. Crabb, Com. Law, 7. This is sometimes confounded with the celebrated Domesday-Book. See Dome-Book, Domes-DAY

The complete and absolute ownership of land; a paramount and in-dlvidual rlght of property in land. People v. Shearer, 30 Cal. 658.. Also the real es

An abbreviation of Do-mus Procerum or Domo Procerum; the house of lords ln England. Sometimes ex-pressed by the letters D. P

In the clvll law. Guile; de-celtfulness; malicious fraud. A fraudulent address or trick used to deceive some one; a fraud. Dlg. 4, 3, 1. Any subtle contriv-ance by words or acts wlth a design to circumvent. 2 Kent, Comm. 560; Code, 2, 21

In Spanlsh law. Bad or mls-chlevous design, white. New Recop. b. 1, tit L c- 1, f 3

The unlt employed ln the United States in calculating money values. It ls coined both in gold and sllver, and Is of the value of one hundred cents

Lat. See Dontrs

A recompense for a scar or wound. CoweU

Sax. A wound. Spelman

or DOOLS. Slips of pasture left between the furrows of plowed land