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Letters-pa tent Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Admeasurement of dower, where the widow holds more than her share, etc Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A dowager Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A writ which lay for a widow, when it was judicially as-certained that a tenant to the king was seised of tenements […]

A writ which lies for a widow to whom uo dower has been assigned. 3 Bl. Comm. 182. By 23 & 24 […]

In canon and feudal law. Dower. Spelman, voc. “Doarlumf’ Calvin. 2 Bl. Comm. 129. Used as early as A. D. 841 Source: […]

The act of giving a dowry or portion; endowment in general, including the endowment of a hospital or other charitable institution Source: […]

Dotage is that feebleness of the mental faculties -which proceeds from old age. It is a diminution or decay of that in-tellectual […]

Relating to the dos or portion of a woman; constituting her portion; corn-prised in her portion Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

Lat. The back. In dorao recordi, on the back of the record. 5 Coke, 44b Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

(Contracted from dormiture.) A dormitory of a convent; a place to sleep in Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The place of usual entrance in a house, or into a room in the house. State V. McBeth, 49 Kan. 584, 31 […]

Literally, sleeping; hence Inactive; in abeyance; unknown; concealed Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Scotch law. Judicial sen-tence, or judgment The decision or sen-tence of a court orally pronounced by an officer called a “dempster” […]

See Domesdat-Book Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. He by Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in the civil law. A gift; a free gift. Calvin. Distinguished from munua. Dig. 50, 16, 194 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

In old English law. He to Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

See De Domis, the Statute Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The person on whom the king bestows hls right to any forfeiture that has fallen to the crown Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

Distinguished from “made.” “A ‘deed made’ may no doubt mean an ‘Instru-ment made;’ but a ‘deed done’ is not an ‘instrument done,’—it […]

A donor; one who makes a gift, (donatio Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A donee; a person to whom a gift is made; a purchaser. Bract. foL 13, et seq Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In ecclesiastical law. A Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In ecclesias-tical law. A species of advowson, where the benefice 4s conferred on the clerk by the patron’s deed of donation, without […]