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DOTALITIUM

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In canon and feudal law. Dower. Spelman, voc. "Doarlum;" Calvin. 2 Bl. Comm. 129. Used as early as A. D. 841. … [Read more...]

DOOM

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In Scotch law. Judicial sentence, or judgment The decision or sentence of a court orally pronounced by an officer called a "dempster" or "deemster." In modern usage, criminal sentences still end with the words "which is pronounced for doom." … [Read more...]

DOTATION

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French law. The act by which the founder of a hospital, or other charity, endows it with property to fulfill its destination. … [Read more...]

DOTE

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Span. law. The property which the wife gives to the husband on account of marriage. 2. It is divided into adventitia and profectitia; the former is the dote which the father or grandfather, or other of the ascendants in the direct paternal line, give of their own property to the husband; the latter (adventitia) is that property which the wife gives to the husband, or that which … [Read more...]

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