(A French word, adopted in Louisiana.) The fortune, portion, or dowry which a woman brings to her husband by the marriage. … [Read more...]

In French law. Guarantor of negotiable paper other than by indorsement … [Read more...]

Dotage is that feebleness of the mental faculties which proceeds from old age. It is a diminution or decay of that intellectual power which was once possessed. It is the slow approach of death; of that irrevocable cessation without hurt or disease ofall the functions which once belonged to the living animal. The external functions gradually cease; the senses waste away by … [Read more...]

He who makes a gift. In old English law. He by whom lands were given to another; the party making a donation. In later law. He who gives lands or tenements to another in tail. Litt … [Read more...]

Relating to the dos or portion of a woman; constituting her portion; comprised in her portion. Dotal property. In the civil law, in Louisiana, by this term is understood that property which the wife brings to the husband to assist him in bearing the expenses of the marriage establishment. Extradotal property, otherwise called "paraphernal property," is that which forms no part … [Read more...]