Admeasurement of dower, where the widow holds more than her share, etc
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A writ which lay for a widow, when it was judicially as-certained that a tenant to the king was seised of tenements in fee or fee-tall at the day of his death, and that he held of the king in chief. In such case the widow might come iuto chancery, and then make oath that she would not marry without the king’s leave, and then she might have this writ. These widows were called the “klng’s wid-ows.” Jacob; Holthouse
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A writ which lies for a widow to whom uo dower has been assigned. 3 Bl. Comm. 182. By 23 & 24 VicL c. 126, an ordinary action commenced by writ of summons has taken its place; bnt it remains in force in the United States. Dower unde nihil habet (which title see
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In canon and feudal law. Dower. Spelman, voc. “Doarlumf’ Calvin. 2 Bl. Comm. 129. Used as early as A. D. 841
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The act of giving a dowry or portion; endowment in general, including the endowment of a hospital or other charitable institution
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Dotage is that feebleness of the mental faculties -which proceeds from old age. It is a diminution or decay of that in-tellectual power which was once possessed. It is the slow approach of death; of that irrevocable cessation, without hurt or dis-ease, of all the functions which once be-longed to the living animal. The external functions gradually cease; the senses waste away hy degrees; and the mind is imper-ceptibly visited by decay, owing’s Case, 1 Bland (Md.) 389, 17 Am. Dec. 311
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Relating to the dos or portion of a woman; constituting her portion; corn-prised in her portion
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Lat. The back. In dorao recordi, on the back of the record. 5 Coke, 44b
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(Contracted from dormiture.) A dormitory of a convent; a place to sleep in
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The place of usual entrance in a house, or into a room in the house. State V. McBeth, 49 Kan. 584, 31 Pac. 145
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Literally, sleeping; hence Inactive; in abeyance; unknown; concealed
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In Scotch law. Judicial sen-tence, or judgment The decision or sen-tence of a court orally pronounced by an officer called a “dempster” or “deemster.” In modern usage, criminal sentences still end with the words “which is pronounced for doom.”
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Lat in the civil law. A gift; a free gift. Calvin. Distinguished from munua. Dig. 50, 16, 194
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The person on whom the king bestows hls right to any forfeiture that has fallen to the crown
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Distinguished from “made.” “A ‘deed made’ may no doubt mean an ‘Instru-ment made;’ but a ‘deed done’ is not an ‘instrument done,’—it is an ‘act done;* and therefore these words, ‘made and done,’ apply to acts, as weil -as deeds.” Lord Brougham, 4 Bell, App. Cas. 38
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A donee; a person to whom a gift is made; a purchaser. Bract. foL 13, et seq
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In ecclesias-tical law. A species of advowson, where the benefice 4s conferred on the clerk by the patron’s deed of donation, without presenta-tlon, institution, or induction. 2 Bl. Comm. 23; Termes de la Ley
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