The Latin of illiterate persons; Latin words put together on the English grammatical system
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In maritime law. A light ship or vessel; dogger-fish, fish brought in ships. Cowell
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In Scotch law. An agent or at-torney. 1 Kames, Eq. 325
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AW. In old forest law. The manifest deprehension of an offender against venison In a forest, when he was found drawing after a deer by the scent of a hound led in his hand; or where a person had wounded a deer or wild beast, by shooting at him, or otherwise, and was caught with a dog drawing after him to receive the same. Manwood, Forest Law, 2, c. 8
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The name of the fictitious plaintiff in the action of ejectment. 3 Stepb. Oomm. 618
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In Saxon law. The act-ual perpetrator of a homicide
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The title of a work written-by St. Germain in the reign of Henry VIIL in which many principles of the common law are discussed in a popular manner. It is in the form of a dialogue between a doctor of divinity and a student in law, and has always been considered a book of merit and authority. 1 Kent, Comm. 504; Crabb, Eng. Law, 482
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A rule, principle, theory, or tenet of the law; as, the doctrine of mer-ger, the doctrine of relation, etc
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In medical jurisprudence. The hydrostatic test used chiefly in cases of alleged infanticide to de-termlne whether the child was born alive or dead, which consists in immersion of the foetal lungs in water. If they have never been inflated they will sink, but will float lf the child has breathed
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A learned man; one qualified to give instruction of the higher order in a science or art; particularly, one who has re-ceived the highest academical degree in his art or faculty, as, a doctor of laws, medicine^ or theology. In colloquial language, however, the term is practically restricted to practitioners of medicine. Harrison v. State, 102 Ala. 170, 15 South. 563; State v. Mc-Knight, 131 N. O. 717, 42 S. E. 580, 59 L. R. A. 187
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Lat. 1 give that you may give; I give [you] that you may give [me.] A formula in the civil law, constituting a general division under which those contracts (termed “innominate”) were classed in which something was given by one party as a consideration for something given by the other. Dig. 19, 4; Id. 19, 5, 5; 2 Bl. Comm. 444
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Lat I give that you may do; I give [you] that you may do or make [for me.] A formula In the civil law, under which those contracts were classed in which one party gave or agreed to give money, in consideration the other party did or performed certain work. Dig. 19, 5, 5; 2 Bl. Cqmm. 444
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Lat. I give, 1 say, I adjudge. Three words used in the Roman law, to express the ^extent of the civil Juris-diction of the praetor. Do denoted that he gave or granted actions, exceptions, aud judices; dico, that he pronounced judgment; addico, that he adjudged the controverted property, or the goods of the debtor, etc., to the plaintiff. Mackeld. Rom. Law, $ 39
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Lat I give, I bequeath; or I give and bequeath. The formal words of making a bequest or legacy, in the Roman law. Titio ct Seio hontinem, Stichum do, lego, I give and bequeath to Titlus and Seius my man Stichus. Inst. 2, 20, 8, 30, 31. The expression is literally retained in modern wills
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The legal separation of man and wlfe, effected, for cause, by the Judg-rnent of a court, and either totally dissolving the marriage relation, or suspending its ef-fects so far as concerns the cohabitation of the parties. Atherton v. Atherton, 181 U. S. 155, 21 Sup. Ct. 544, 45 L. Ed. 794; Miller v. Miller, 33 Cal. 355; Cast v. Cast, 1 Utah, 112
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Fr. Tenth; the tenth part ord. Mar. llv. 1, tit. 1, art 9
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Courts in Eng-land, consisting of two or (in special cases) more judges of the high court of justice, sitting to transact certain kinds of business which cannot be disposed of by one Judge
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UM. Lat A divided jurisdiction. Applied, e. g„ to the jurisdlc-tlon of courts of common law and equity over the same subject 1 Kent, Comm. 366; 4 Steph. Comm. 9
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In Eugllsh law. one of the smaller subdivisions of a county. Used in
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In the prac-tice of appellate courts, this term denotes such a disagreement amoug the judges that there is not a majority in favor of uuy one view, and hence uo decision can be rendered on the case. But it sometimes also denotes a division into two classes, one of which may comprise a majority of the Judges ; as •when we speak of a decision having proceed-ed from a “divided court.”
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In old English law. Sever-ally; separately. Bract, fol. 47
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Divine service was the name of a feudal tenure, by which the tenants were obliged to do some special divine services in certaiu ; as to sing so many masses, to distribute such a sum in alms, and the like. (2 Bl. Comm. 102; 1 Steph. Comm. 227.) it differed from tenure iu frankalmoign, iu this: that, iu case of the tenure hy diviue service, the lord of whom the lauds were holden might distrain for its non-perforniauce, whereas, in case of frankalmoign, the lord has no remedy hy distraint for neglect of the service, but merely a right of complttint to the visitor to correct it. Mozley & whitley
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In old English law. A device, award, or decree; also a devise; also bounds or limits of division of a parish or farm, etc. Cowell. Also a court held ou the bound-ary, in order to settle disputes of the tenants
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Lat To dlviue; to conjecture or guess; to foretell. Divinatio, a conjecturing or guessing
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