Concerning gifts, (or more fully, de donis conditionalibus, concerning conditional gifts.) The name of a celebrated English statute, passed in the thirteenth year of Edw. I., and constituting the first chapter of the statute of Westm. 2, by virtue of which estates in fee simple conditional (formerly known as "dona conditionalia") were converted into estates in fee-tail, and … [Read more...] about DE DONIS
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DE EXCOMMUNICATO RECAPIENDO
Writ for retaking an excommunicated person, where he had been liberated from prison without making satisfaction to the church, or giving security for that purpose. Reg. Orig. 67. … [Read more...] about DE EXCOMMUNICATO RECAPIENDO
DE DOTE ASSIGNANDA
Writ for assigning dower. A writ which lay for the widow of a tenant in capite, commanding the king's escheater to cause her dower to be assigned to her. Reg. Orig. 297; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 263, C … [Read more...] about DE DOTE ASSIGNANDA
DE EXCUSATIONIBUS
"Concerning excuses." This is the title of book 27 of the Pandects, (in the Corpus Juris Civilis.) It treats of the circumstances which excuse one from filling the office of tutor or curator. The bulk of the extracts are from Modestinus. … [Read more...] about DE EXCUSATIONIBUS
DE DOTE UNDE NIHIL HABET
A writ of dower which lay for a widow where no part of her dower had been assigned to her. It is now much disused; but a form closely resembling it is still sometimes used in the United States. 4 Kent Comm. 63; Stearns, Real Act 302; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 230. … [Read more...] about DE DOTE UNDE NIHIL HABET