To establish one’s domicile; to take up one’s fixed residence in a given place. To establish the domicile of another person whose legal residence fol-lows one’s own
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That place in which a man has voluntarily fixed the habitation of hlm-self and family, not for a mere speclal or temporary purpose, hut with the present in-tentlon of maklng a permanent home, untll some unexpected event shall occur to Induce him to adopt some other permanent home. In re Gameau, 127 Fed. 677, 62 C. C. A. 403
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Established in a given domicile; belonging to a given state or jur-lsdiction by right of domicile
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In old English law. A damsel. Fleta, llb. 1, c. 20, § 80
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In old English law. A better sort of servant in monasteries; also an appellatlon of a king’s bastard
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(Sax.) An inferior kind of judges. Men appointed to doom (judge) in matters in controversy. Cowell. Suitors in a court of a manor in ancient demesne, who are judges there. Blount; whishaw; Termes de ia Ley
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In old European law. A seneschal, steward, or major domo; a judge’s assistant; an assessor, (q. v.) Spel-man
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A book or code said to have been compiled nnder the direction of Alfred, for the general use of the whole kingdom of England; containing, as is sup-posed, the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. It is said to have been extant so late as the reign of Edward IV., but is now lost. 1 Bl. Comm. 64, 65
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(Sax.) An ancient record made in the time of william the Conqueror, and now remain-ing in the English exchequer, consisting of two volumes of unequal size, containing mi-nute and accurate surveys of the lands in England. 2 Bl. Comm. 49, 50. The work was begun by five justices in each county in 1081, and finished in 1086.
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(Sax. From dom, judgment, and bec, boc, a book.) Dome-book or doom-book. A name given among the Saxons to a code of laws. Sev-eral of the Saxon kings published dombocs, but tlie most important one was that nttrib-uted to Alfred. Crabb, Com. Law, 7. This is sometimes confounded with the celebrated Domesday-Book. See Dome-Book, Domes-DAY
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(Sax.) Doom; sentence; judg-fnent. An oath. The homager’s oath in the black book of Hereford. Blonnt
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An abbreviation of Do-mus Procerum or Domo Procerum; the house of lords in England. Sometimes ex-pressed by the letters D. P
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The complete and absolute ownership of land; a paramount and in-dlvidual rlght of property in land. People v. Shearer, 30 Cal. 658.. Also the real es
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In Spanlsh law. Bad or mls-chlevous design, white. New Recop. b. 1, tit L c- 1, f 3
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In the clvll law. Guile; de-celtfulness; malicious fraud. A fraudulent address or trick used to deceive some one; a fraud. Dlg. 4, 3, 1. Any subtle contriv-ance by words or acts wlth a design to circumvent. 2 Kent, Comm. 560; Code, 2, 21
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The unlt employed in the United States in calculating money values. It is coined both in gold and sllver, and is of the value of one hundred cents
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A part or portion of a meadow is so called; and the word has the general signification of share, portlon, or the llke; as “to dole out” anything among so many poor persons, meanlng to deal or distribute in portlons to them. Holthouse
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or DOOLS. Slips of pasture left between the furrows of plowed land
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The formal word hy which services were reserved and expressed in old conveyances; as “rendering” (reddendo) was expressive of rent. Perk. c. 10, H 625, 635, 638
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1TKIN, or DOIT. A base coin of small value, prohibited by St. 3 Hen. V. c. 1. we still retain the phrase, in the common saying, when we would undervalue a man, that he is not worth a doit. Jacob
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In the civil law. A word occasionally used as descriptive of an ordinance of the senate. See Nov. 2, 1, 1; Dig. 27, 1, 6
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