(verb) - To abstract and enter in a book. 3 Bl. Comm. 397, 398. To make a brief entry of any proceeding in a court of justice in the docket.(noun) - n. A minute, abstract or brief entry; or the book containing such entries. A small piece of paper or parchment having the effect of a larger. Blount. In practice. A formal record, entered in brief, of the proceedings In a court of … [Read more...]

In Scotch law. An agent or attorney. 1 Karnes, Eq. 325. … [Read more...]

A learned man; one qualified to give instruction of the higher order in a science or art; particularly, one who has received the highest academical degree in his art or faculty, as, a doctor of laws, medicine, or theology. In colloquial language, however, the term is practically restricted to practitioners of medicine. Harrison v. State, 102 Ala. 170, 15 South. 563; State v. … [Read more...]

State laws that determine liability for dog owners whose dogs bite a person. Many states make dog owners liable for dog bites even without knowledge that their dog had a propensity to bite a person. (See also the one bite rule regarding dogs.) … [Read more...]

The title of a work written by St Germain in the reign of Henry VIIL in which many principles of the common law are discussed in a popular manner. It is in the form of a dialogue between a doctor of divinity and a student in law, and has always been considered a book of merit and authority. 1 Kent Comm. 504; Crabb, Eng. Law, 482. … [Read more...]