Lat A gift A transfer of the title to property to one who receives it 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
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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
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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. 227; Broom, Max. 432. A man’s dwelling-house is his castle, not for his own personal protection merely, but also for the protection of his family and his property therein. Curtis ▼. Hubbard, 4 Hlll (N. Y.) 437.
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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
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In the clvll law. The owner of a vessel. Dig- 30, 4, 11, 2
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Lat Tame; domesticated; not wild. Applied to domestic animals, in which a man may have an absolute proper-ty. 2 Bl. Comm. 391
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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
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Lat. Tbe master of the suit; i. e., the person who was really and directly lnterested in the suit as a party, as dlstlngulshed from hls attorney or advocate. Bnt the term is also applied to one who, though not orlglnally a party, has made hlm-self such, hy lnterventlon or otherwlse, and has assumed entlre control* and responsihll-ity for one side, and is treated by the court as liable for costs. See In re Stover, 1 Curt. 201, Fed. Cas. No. 13,507
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In the civil and old Eng-lish law. ownership; property in the larg-est sense, including both the right of prop-erty and the right of possession or use
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Lat The own-er belng willing; with* the consent of the owner
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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
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ownership, or right to property. 2 Bl. Comm. 1. Title to an ar-tide of property which arises from the pow-er of disposition and the right of claiming it Beker v. westcott, 73 Tex 129, 11 S. W. 157. “The holder has the dominion of the bill.” 8 East, 579
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Lat. Domain; dem a in ; demesne. A lordship. That of which one has the lordship or ownership. That which
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A term used in the civil Snd Scotch law, and thence in ours, relating to servitudes, meaning the tenement or subject in favor of which the service is constituted; as the tenement over which the servitude extends is called the “servient tenement” wharton; walker v. Clifford, 128 Ala. 67, 29 South. 588, 86 Am St. Rep. 74 ; Dillman v. Hoffman, 38 wis. 572; Stevens v. Dennett, 51 N. H. 339
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NA, (DAME.) A title given to honorable women, who andently, in their own right of inheritance, held a- barony. Cowell
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In old Engllsh law. Power over another; also danger. Bract, t 4, t. 1, c. 10
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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 real property and possessions. Yates v. Iams, 10 Tex. 168
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Pertaining to domicile; relating to one’s domicile. Existing or creat-ed at, or connected with, the domicile of a suitor or of a decedent
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