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While single or unmarried. This phrase is applied to single women, to denote that something has been done, or may be done, while the woman is or was unmarried. Example, when a judgment is rendered against a woman dum sola, and afterwards she marries, the scire facias to revive, the judgment must be against both husband and wife. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
Latin, meaning Two cannot possess one thing each in entirety. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
One who cannot speak; a person who is mute. See Deaf and dumb, Deaf, dumb, and blind; Mute, standing mute. … [Read more...]
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The trial by twelve men, or by jury. Applied to juries de medietate lingua. Mol. de Jure Mar. 448. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
In sales at auction, when the minimum amount which the owner will take for the article is written on a piece of paper, and placed by the owner under a candlestick, or other thing, and it is agreed that no bidding shall avail unless equal to that, this is called "dumb-bidding." Bab. Auct 44. … [Read more...]