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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...] about DOOM

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

See DOMESDAY-BOOK. … [Read more...] about DOOMSDAY-BOOK

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...] about DOTE

The place of usual entrance in a house, or into a room in the house. 2. To authorize the breach of an outer door in order to serve process, the process must be of a criminal nature; and even then a demand of admittance must first have been refused. The outer door may also be broken open for the purpose of executing a writ of habere facias. 3. An outer door cannot in general be … [Read more...] about DOOR