DOUBLE
Categories: Torts
Definition (1910 Edition)
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. A gold coin of:the United States of the value of twenty dollars—Double entry. A system of mercantile book-keeping, in. which the entries in the day-book, etc., are posted twice into the ledger. First, to a personal account, that is, to the account of the person with whom the dealing to which any given entry refers has taken place; secondly, to an imrsonal account, as “s00ds.”" Mozley & Whitey.—Double fine. In old English law. A fine sur done grant et render was called a “double fine,” because it comprehended the fine eur cog nizance de t come ceo, etc., and the fine sur concessit. 2 Bl. Comm. 353—Double insurance is where divers insurances are made upon the same interest in the same subject against the same risks in favor of the same assured, in ropernere exceeding the value. 1 Phill. Ins. E 9, 366. A double insurance exists where the same person is insured by several insurers separately in respect to the same subject and interest. Civ. Code Cal. § 2641; Wells v. Insurance Co., 9 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 107; Insurance
Cowell.—Double costs. See Costs.—Double damages. See DAMAGES.—Double eagle. A gold coin of:the United States of the value of twenty dollars—Double entry. A system of mercantile book-keeping, in. which the entries in the day-book, etc., are posted twice into the ledger. First, to a personal account, that is, to the account of the person with whom the dealing to which any given entry refers has taken place; secondly, to an imrsonal account, as “s00ds.”" Mozley & Whitey.—Double fine. In old English law. A fine sur done grant et render was called a “double fine,” because it comprehended the fine eur cog nizance de t come ceo, etc., and the fine sur concessit. 2 Bl. Comm. 353—Double insurance is where divers insurances are made upon the same interest in the same subject against the same risks in favor of the same assured, in ropernere exceeding the value. 1 Phill. Ins. E 9, 366. A double insurance exists where the same person is insured by several insurers separately in respect to the same subject and interest. Civ. Code Cal. § 2641; Wells v. Insurance Co., 9 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 107; Insurance
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