DOT DOWER dower is for every woman a third part of all the lands and tenements which her husband held in his demesne as of fee. Dot. Same as Dos. Dotage. Mental feebleness in old age, Dotal property. Part of dower or marriage portion. See 147 U. S. 550, 37 L. Ed. 276, 13 Sup. Ct. Rep. 495. Dotalitium. Dower. Dotation. Endowment with a mar riage portion. Dote. (Spanish) Same as Dos. Dote assignando. For assignment of dower. Dote unde nihil habet. A writ of dower for a widow against a tenant of lands whereof he was solely seised in fee simple, or fee tail, and of which she is dowable. Doti lex favet; proemium pudoris est, ideo parcatur. The law favors dower; it is the reward of virtue, therefore it should be spared. Dotis administratio. Admeasure ment of dower. Dotissa. A dowager. Double avail of marriage. Double the ordinary or single value of a marriage.-Bell. Dict. Double bond. (Scotch) A bond pro viding a penalty for nonfulfillment. Double complaint. A complaint in an ecclesiastical court against both the judge who delayed or refused justice and the defendant in the cause. Double costs. One and a half times the actual costs of suit. See 2 N. J. L. 108. Double damages. Twice the actual loss suffered. Double fine. A fine sur don grant et render. Double insurance. The making of two or more insurances upon the same subject, the same risk, and the same interest. See 146 Pa. St. 561, 28 Am. St. Rep. 821, 15 L. R. A. 127, 23 Atl. 248. Double quarrel. Same as Double complaint. Double plea. A plea embracing more than one defense. See 18 R. I. 567, 49 Am. St. Rep. 794, 29 Atl. 143. Double possibility. A possibility founded upon another possibility. Double rent. A statutory penalty for holding over after the land. lord's notice to quit. Double taxation. Taxing the same property twice to the same person, or once to one and again to another. See 59 Iowa, 251, 44 Am. Rep. 679, 13 N. W. 113. . Double voucher. See Recovery by double voucher. Double waste. Cutting timber to make repairs. Dowable. Entitled to dower. Dowager. An endowed widow. Dowager queen. The widow of a king. Dower. A widow's life estate in one-third of the real property of which her husband was seised of an estate of inheritance during the marriage. See 135 Ill. 448, 25 Am. St. Rep. 392, 11 L. R. A. 790, 26 N. E. 582. Dower ad ostium ecclesiae. A hus band's endowment of his wife at the time of marriage. See 27 Ohio St. 50. Dower 'y the common law. A third of a husband's lands. Dower ex assensu patris. A mar riage portion assigned by the husband to his wife out of his father's estate. See 27 Ohio St. 50. DOWER DROITURAL Dower unde nihil habet. A writ for Driftland. An annual tribute for a widow to whom no dower has the privilege of driving cattle been assigned. through a manor. Dowle stones. Boundary stones... Driftway. A way over which cattle are driven. Dowment. Endowment. Drip. The fall of rain-water from Dowment ad ostium ecclesiae. See the eaves of a house. Dower ad ostium ecclesiae. Drofland. Same as Driftland. Dowress. A woman entitled to Droict. Same as Droit. dower. Droit. Right; law; justice. Dowry. A marriage portion. Droit commun. Common law. Dozein. An ancient municipal dis- Droit d'accroissement. Right of trict of twelve families. survivorship. Dr. Bonham's case. Holding void at Droit d'ainesse. A birthright. common law a statute impossible Droit d'aubaine. The right of a of performance or against common country to seize the estate of an right and reason. See 8 Coke, alien dying therein. See 100 107, 77 Eng. Reprint, 638. Iowa, 407, 37 L. R. A. 583, 69 Draconian laws. A code of laws N. W. 560. compiled by Draco the Athenian; Droit d'eignesse. The right of the harsh laws. eldest. Draft. A written order drawn on Droit d'execution. Right of a broker one person to pay money to an to sell for account of his principal other. who refuses to accept. Dragoman. A Turkish court inter Droit de corvées. Right to feudal preter. service. Draw. To make a draft. Droit de déshérence. Right of esDrawback. A government rebate on cheat. the export of certain imports. Droit de suit. Right to pursue propSee 113 Fed. (U. S.) 144, 51 erty in a third party's hands; C. C. A. 100. stoppage in transitu. Drawee. One upon whom a bill of Droit droit. Title and right of posexchange is drawn. session. Drawer. The maker of a bill of ex Droit ecrit. The written law. change. Droit ne done pluis que soit deDrawlatches. Thieves. maundé. The law gives no more Dred Scott Case. Holding a free than is demanded. negro born of slaves was not a Droit ne poet pas morier. The right United States citizen. See 19 cannot die. How. (U. S.) 393, 15 L. Ed. 691. Droits civils. Civil or private Dreit dreit. Same as Droit droit. rights. Dreng. A tenant in capite. . Droits of admiralty. Abandoned Drengage. The tenure of a dreng. goods found at sea; goods taken Drift of the forest. A driving to- in war time by a noncommissioned gether of all the cattle in a for ship. est. Droitural. Concerning right. ce DROITURAL DUM Droitural action. An action to re- Duces tecum. Bring with you. See cover land of which the plaintiff Subpoena duces tecum. had lost both possession and the Duces tecum licet languidus. A writ Duces tecum right thereto. to bring one into court notwithDrop-letter. A letter posted for de standing his illness. livery by the local postoffice. Duchy Court of Lancaster. See Drove road. A cattle road. Court of the Duchy of Lancaster. Druggist. One in the business of Ducking-stool. An instrument for buying and selling drugs without punishing scolds, being a chair compounding or preparation. See wherein they were plunged in 28 La. Ann. 765, 26 Am. Rep. 110. water. Drumhead court-martial. A sum- Due. Exactly; immediately pay. mary military trial. able; owing, and payable now or at a future time. See 7 N. Y. Drunkard. One who by habitual use 476, 57 Am. Dec. 542. of intoxicants is deprived of reasonable self-control. See 23 Colo. Due bill.. A writing acknowledging 87, 33 L. R. A. 832, 46 Pac. 117. a debt. Due care. Care such as an ordiDrunkenness. Inebriation from in narily prudent man would have toxicating liquors. See 112 Ga. exercised under the circumstances. 854, 38 S. E. 330. See 70 N. H. 441, 55 L. R. A. 426, Dry craeft. Witchcraft. 50 Atl. 146. Dry exchange. An evasion of usury Due process of law. The applicalaws. tion of the law as it exists in the Dry mortgage. One imposing no fair and regular course of adminis personal liability on the mort trative procedure. See 122 Am. gagor. See 134 Cal. 128, 66 Pae.. St. Rep. 904, note. 178. Due-days. Same as Boon-days. Dry rent. Rent reserved without Duelling. The offense of fighting a right of distress. duel. Dry trust. One wherein the trustee Duello. A duel. merely holds the title. See 148 Duellum. A trial by battle. Mo. 542, 45 L. R. A. 53, 50 S. W. Duke. A leader; a hereditary title in England next to a prince. Duarchy. A government with two Dulocracy. A government of slaves. rulers. Duly. Regularly; according to law. Duas uxores eodem tempore habere See 224 Ill. 218, 8 Ann. Čas. 123, non potest. One cannot have two 79 N. E. 639. wives at the same time. Dum. While. Dub. Abbreviation of Dubitatur. Dum bene se gesserit. During good Dubitans. Doubting. behavior. Dubitante. Doubting. Dum fervet opus. While the work Dubitatur. It is doubted. flourishes. Dubitavit. It has been doubted. Dum fuit in prisona. A writ to reDubii juris. Of doubtful right or cover land conveyed under dulaw. ress. 439. DUM DUTCH Dum fuit infra aetatem. While he Duplicate will. One executed in was under age. duplicate and each copy placed in different hands. Dum non fuit compos mentis. While he was of unsound mind. Duplicatio. (Civil Law) A pleading Dum recens fuit maleficium. While corresponding to a common-law re joinder. the offense was recent. Duplicationem possibilitatis lex non Dum sola. While unmarried. patitur. The law does not suffer Dum sola et casta vixerit. While a duplication of possibility. she shall live unmarried and Duplicatum jus. A double right. chaste. Dumb-bidding. Auction bidding Duplicity. Double pleading; the wherein all bids below a secret joinder of two or more distinct and separate offenses in one count. one are rejected. See 77 Md. 121, 39 Am. St. Rep. Dummodo. So that. 401, 26 Atl. 500. Dummodo constat de persona. So Duply. (Scotch) A second pleading that it is clear as to the person, by way of reply. Dungeon. An underground cell. Durante. During. Dunnage. Loose wood used to pro Durante absentia. During absence. tect a cargo from water in a ship’s hold. See 103 Mass. 401, 4 Durante bene placito. During good Am. Rep. 567. pleasure. Duo non possunt in solido unam rem Durante furore. During insanity. possidere. Two cannot possess one Durante itinere. During a journey. thing exclusively. Duo sunt instrumenta ad omnes res Durante minore aetate. During miaut confirmandas aut impugnan nority. das,-Ratio et aucoritas. Reason Durante viduitate. During widowand authority are two instruments hood. for the confirming or impugning Durante vita. During life. of all matters. Duress. Constraint or danger, inDuodecemvirale judicium. A jury flicted or threatened and impendtrial. ing, sufficient to overcome the Duodecima manus. Twelve men's mind and will of one of ordinary oath. firmness. See 94 Am. St. Rep. 411, . Duodena. A jury of twelve. note. Duorum in solidum dominium vel Duress per minas. Duress through possessio esse non potest. Sole threats. ownership or possession cannot be Duressor. One who imposes duress in two persons. upon another. Duplex querela. An appeal from an Dusty foot. See Courts of pieordinary to his superior. poudre. Duplex valor maritagii. Twice the Dutch auction. One in which the value of the marriage. auctioneer submits a high price Duplicate. One of two documents and lowers it until there is an acprecisely similar. ceptance. See 28 Ohio St. 479. DUUMVIRI DYVOUR Daumviri. Two Roman municipal a child born either before or after magistrates with the same func death. tions. Dynasty. A royal family succession Dux. A chief; a leader. to a throne. Dwelling-house. An inhabited resi. Dysnomy. Bad legislation. dence. Dyvour. (Scotch) An insolvent who Dying declarations. Those made by had assigned for the benefit of his one on his death-bed. See 86 Am. creditors. St. Rep. 638, note. Dyvour's habit. The costume preDying without issue. Death without scribed by law for a dyvour. 139 |