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DOMBEC , DOMBOC

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(Sax. From dom, judgment, and bee, boct a book.) Dome-book or doom-book. A name given among the Saxons to a code of laws. Several of the Saxon kings published dombocsf but the most important one was that attributed to Alfred. Crabb, Com. Law, 7. This is sometimes confounded with the celebrated Domesday-Book. See DOME-BOOK, DOMES-DAY. … [Read more...]

DOME

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(Sax.) Doom; sentence; judgment. An oath. The homager's oath in the black book of Hereford. Blount. … [Read more...]

DOME-BOOK

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A book or code said to have been compiled under the direction of Alfred, for the general use of the whole kingdom of England; containing, as is supposed, the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. It is said to have been extant so late as the reign of Edward IV., but is now lost. 1 Bl. Comm. 64, 65. … [Read more...]

DOLES, OR DOOLS

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Slips of pasture left between the furrows of plowed land. … [Read more...]

DOME-BOOK or DOOM-BOOK or DOM-BEC

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A book in which Alfred the Great, of England, after uniting the Saxon heptarchy, collected the various customs dispersed through the kingdom, and digested them into one uniform code. 4 … [Read more...]

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