DONATIO PRINCIPIS
‘Donatio principis intelligitur sine preejudicio tertii. Dav. Ir. K. B. 75. A gift of the prince is understood without prejndice to a third party.
Terms beginning with "D" (491 total)
Donnell, 92 Me
151, 42 Atl. 845; Colnon v.
DONUM
Lat. In the civil law. A gift; a free gift. Calvin. Distinguished from munus. Dig. 50, 16, 194.
Dooley, 25 Fed. Cas
890; U. 8. v. Wittig, 28 Fed. Cas. 745.
Doran, Hun, 402, 1 N. Y. Supp
588; Me Sorley v. Faulkner (Com. Pl.) 18 N. Y. Supp. 460 ; allway Co. v. Gaffney, 65 Ohio St. 104 61 N. 153. Quasi contracts are the lawful and purely voluntary acts of a man, from which there results any obligation what...
Dorman v. Dorman, 187 Ill
154, 58 'N. BE. 235. 79 Am. St. Hep. 210; Aborn v.- Searles, 1
DORSUM
Lat. The back. In dorso
DORTURE
(Contracted from dormiture.) A dormitory of a convent; a piace to sleep in.
DOS DE DOTE PETI NON DEBET
estate, to which every widow is entitled, of lands of which her husband may have endowed her on the day of marriage. Co. Litt. 3
DOT
(A French word, adopted in Louisiana.) The fortune, portion, or dowry which & woman brings to her husband by the marriage.
DOUBLE
DOTE, v. “To besot” is to stupefy, ta make dull or senseless, to make to dote; and “to dote” is to be delirious, silly, or insane. Cowell.—Double costs. See Costs.—Double damages. See DAMAGES.—Double eagle...
DOUBT
DOUBTFUL TITLE
. 844; Jones v. State, 120 Ala. 303, 25 . 204; Siberry v. State, 183 Ind. 677, 33
Doug
(Mich.). Douglas’ Law Reports, Michigan.
Douglas v. Merceles, 25 N. J. Eq
147; Parmenter v. Fitzpatrick, 1385 N. Y. 190, 31 N. E. 1032. The term also means, when price at the place of exportation is in view, the price at which articles are sold and purchased, clear of every charge but such as ...
DOUN
L. Fr. A gift. Otherwise written “don” and “done.” The thirty-fourth chapter of Britton is entitled “De Douns.”
Dow v. Spenny, 29 Mo
380; Cox v. Northwestern Stage Co., 1 Idaho, 379.
Dowell v. Addams, 45 Pa
432 ein v. De ay 109 La. 570, 83 South. 605 : Brown v.
Dowl
(or Dowl. P. CO. 3: . Dowling’s English Bail Court (Practice) Cases.
Dowl. & BR
218; Herrick v. Borst, 4 Hill (N. Y.) 652; Atwater v. American Exch.
Dowl. Pr. O.N
8. Dowling’s New Series, English Practice Cases.
DOWLE STONES
Stones dividing lands, ete. Cowell.
Dowling v. Polack, 18 Cal
627; Brackenridge v. State, 27 Tex. App. 513, 11 8. W. 630, 4
Downer
39 Ga. 425. These are not properly speaking contracts at all, though they may be “enforced by action like contracts. Specialties, or special contracts, are contracts under seal, such as deeds and bonds. Ludwig v. Bunga...
Downs v. United States, 118 Fed
147, 51 OC. Cc. A. 100.
DOWRY
his use; (8) of all lands to which, at the time of his death, he had a perfect equity, having paid all the purchase money therefor. ®
Doying, 55 N. J. Law, 569, 27 Atl
927; Fowble v. Insurance Co., 106 Mo. App. 527, 81
DOZEIN. UL
Fr. Twelve; a person twelve years of age. St. 18 Edw. II.; Barring. Ob. St. 208.
Draco, 7 Fed. Cas
1.042.—Maritime nroft. A term used by French writers to signify any profit derived from a maritime loan.—Mari-« time service. In admiralty law. A _ service rendered upon the high seas or a navigable river, and which...
Drake v. Wild, 70 Vt
52, 39 Atl. 248.—Gemeeral election. (1) One at which the officers to be elected are such as belong to the general government,—that is, the general and central political organization of the whole state; as distinguish...
DRAW
lowance made to a merchant or importer, in the case of goods sold by weight or taxable by weight, to cover possible loss of weight in handling or from differences in scales. Marriott v. Brune, 9 How. 633, 13
DRAW, n
1. A movable section of a bridge, which may be raised up or turned to one side, so as to admit the passage of vessels. Gildersleeve v. Railroad Co. (D.
Driest. Cod
1, 8, 6, 20; Nov. 6.
DRIFT-STUFF
DRAWER. The person making a bill of exchange and addressing it to the drawee. Stevenson v. Walton, 2 Smedes & M. (Miss.) 265; Winnebago County State Bank v. Hus-. tel, 119 Iowa, 115, 98 N. W. 70.
DRINCLEAN
matters floating at random, without any known or discoverable ownership, which. if cast ashore, will probably never be reclaimed, but will, as a matter of course, accrue to the riparian proprietor. Watson v. Knowles, 13 ...
DROIT
ing body of law considered. as one whole, or the sum total of a number of individual laws taken together. See Jus; Recut; Ricut.
DROIT $99 DRUNKARD
dower. Fitzh. Nat. Brev, 23.—Droit common. DRU. A thicket of wood in a valley. The common law. Litt. § 213; groan ear e Domesday. a 8, e
Droit Civil Fr
liv. 3, t. 3, c. 6, s. 1, no. 413.
DROMONES, DROMOS
DA. These were at first high ships of great burden, but afterwards those which we now call “men-of-war.” Jacob.
DROMUN
DRUG. The general name of substances used in medicine; any substance, vegetable, animal, or mineral, used in the composition or preparation of medicines. The term is also applied to materials used in dyeing and in chemis...
Dru
t. Nap. Drury’s Irish Chancery Reports tempore Napier.
DRUNKARD
become habitual. The terms “drunkard” and “habitual drunkard” mean the same thing. Com. v. Whitney, 5 Gray (Mass.) 85; Gourlay v. Gourlay, 16 R. I. 705, 19 Atl. 142.
Druse v. Horter, 57 Wis
644, 16 N. W. 14; Doyle v. Metropolitan -El. R. Co., 1 Misc. Rep. 376, 20 N. Y. upp. 865.—Long parliament. The name usually given to the parliament which met in November. 1640,-under Charles I., and was dissolved by Cr...
Dry Goods Co
v. Lester, 60 Ark. 120, 29 S.
Duane, 1 Binn
(Pa.) 608, 2 Am. Dec. 497;
Duane, 54 Cal
177; Lobdell v. Keene, Minn. 90, 88 N. W. 426; Dyer v. Reitz, 14 Mo. App. 45.—Unity of possession. Joint possession of two rights by several titles, as where a lessee of land acquires the title in fee-simple, which ext...
Duberstein, 171 Ill
133, 49 N. E. 316; Boban v. Bohan (Tex. Civ. App.) 56 S. W. 960.
DUBESS
PER MISADVENTURE. In old English law. By mischance. 4 Bl. Comm. 182. The same with per énfortunium, (q. v.) 3
DUCES TECUM
(Lat. Bring with you.) The name of certain species of writs, of which the sybpena duces tecum is the most usual, requiring a party who is summoned to
DUCES TEOCOUM LICET LANGUIDDUS
(Bring with you, although sick.) In practice. An ancient writ, now obsolete, directed to the sheriff, upon a return that he could not bring his prisoner without danger of death, he being adeo languidus, (so sick;) whereu...