Lat. To divine; to conjecture or guess; to foretell. Divinatio, a conjecturing or guessing. Divinatio, non interpretmtio est, qusa omnino reeedit a litera. That is guessing, not interpretation, which altogether departs from the letter. Bac. Max. 18, (in reg. 3,) citing Yearb. 3 Hen. VI. 20. … [Read more...] about DIVINARE
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DJIA
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DIVINE LAWS
As distinguished from those of human origin, divine laws are those of which the authorship js ascribed to God, being either positive or revealed laws or the laws of nature. Mayer v. Frohe, 40 W. Va. 246, 22 S. E. 58; Borden v. State, 11 Ark. 527, 44 Am. Dec. 217. … [Read more...] about DIVINE LAWS
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DIVINE SERVICE
Divine service was the name of a feudal tenure, by which the tenants were obliged to do some special divine services in certain ; as to sing so many masses, to distribute such a sum in alms, and the like. (2 Bl. Comm. 102; 1 Steph. Comm. 227.) It differed from tenure in frankalmoign, in this: that, in case of the tenure by divine service, the lord of whom the lands were holden … [Read more...] about DIVINE SERVICE