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To establish one’s domicile; to take up one’s fixed residence in a given place. To establish the domicile of another person whose […]

That place in which a man has voluntarily fixed the habitation of hlm-self and family, not for a mere speclal or temporary […]

Established in a given domicile; belonging to a given state or jur-lsdiction by right of domicile Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In old English law. A damsel. Fleta, llb. 1, c. 20, § 80 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. A better sort of servant in monasteries; also an appellatlon of a king’s bastard Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

(Sax.) An inferior kind of judges. Men appointed to doom (judge) in matters in controversy. Cowell. Suitors in a court of a […]

In old European law. A seneschal, steward, or major domo; a judge’s assistant; an assessor, (q. v.) Spel-man Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

A book or code said to have been compiled nnder the direction of Alfred, for the general use of the whole kingdom […]

(Sax.) An ancient record made in the time of william the Conqueror, and now remain-ing in the English exchequer, consisting of two […]

(Sax. From dom, judgment, and bec, boc, a book.) Dome-book or doom-book. A name given among the Saxons to a code of […]

(Sax.) Doom; sentence; judg-fnent. An oath. The homager’s oath in the black book of Hereford. Blonnt Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

An abbreviation of Do-mus Procerum or Domo Procerum; the house of lords in England. Sometimes ex-pressed by the letters D. P Source: […]

The complete and absolute ownership of land; a paramount and in-dlvidual rlght of property in land. People v. Shearer, 30 Cal. 658.. […]

In Spanlsh law. Bad or mls-chlevous design, white. New Recop. b. 1, tit L c- 1, f 3 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

In the clvll law. Guile; de-celtfulness; malicious fraud. A fraudulent address or trick used to deceive some one; a fraud. Dlg. 4, […]

Lat. See Dontrs Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The unlt employed in the United States in calculating money values. It is coined both in gold and sllver, and is of […]

Sax. A wound. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A recompense for a scar or wound. CoweU Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A part or portion of a meadow is so called; and the word has the general signification of share, portlon, or the […]

or DOOLS. Slips of pasture left between the furrows of plowed land Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The formal word hy which services were reserved and expressed in old conveyances; as “rendering” (reddendo) was expressive of rent. Perk. c. […]

1TKIN, or DOIT. A base coin of small value, prohibited by St. 3 Hen. V. c. 1. we still retain the phrase, […]

Fishermen that belong to dogger-ships Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the civil law. A word occasionally used as descriptive of an ordinance of the senate. See Nov. 2, 1, 1; Dig. […]