In medical jurisprudence. The hydrostatic test used chiefly in cases of alleged infanticide to determine whether the child was born alive or dead, which consists in immersion of the foetal lungs in water. If they have never been inflated they will sink, but will float If the child has breathed. … [Read more...]

The name of the fictitioup plaintiff In the action of ejectment. 3 Steph. Comm. 618. … [Read more...]

Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition(verb) - To curtail or diminish, as to dock an entail.(noun) - The cage or inclosed space in a criminal court where prisoners stand when brought in for trial. The space, in a river or harbor. Inclosed between two wharves. City of Boston v. Lecraw, 17 How. 434, 15 L. Ed. 118; Bingham v. Doane, 9 Ohio, 167."A dock is an artificial … [Read more...]

In Saxon law. The actual perpetrator of a homicide. … [Read more...]

(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...]