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DIVINARE

Eat To diviue; to conjecture or guess; to foretell. Divinatio, aconjecturing or guessing.Divinatio, non interpretatio est, quae oninino recedit a litera. That is guessing, notinterpretation, which altogether departs from the letter. Bac.

DIVINE LAWS

As distinguished from those of human origin, divine laws are those ofwhich the authorship is ascribed to God, being either positive or revealed laws or thelaws of nature. Mayer v. Probe, 40

DIVINE SERVICE

Divine service was the name of a feudal tenure, by which thetenants were obliged to do some special divine services in certain; as to sing so manymasses, to distribute such a sum

DIVISA

In old English law. A device, award, or decree; also a devise; also boundsor limits of division of a parish or farm, etc. Cowell. Also a court held ou the boundary,in order

DIVISIBLE

That which is susceptible of being divided.

DIVISIBLE CONTRACT

One which is in its nature and purposes susceptible of division andapportionment, having two or more parts in respect to matters and things contemplatedand embraced by it, not necessarily dependent on each

DIVISIM

In old English law. Severally; separately. Bract fol. 47.

DIVISION

In English law. One of the smaller subdivisions of a county. Used in Lincolnshire as synonymous with “riding” in Yorkshire.

DIVISUM IMPERIUM

Lat A divided jurisdiction. Applied, e. g., to the jurisdiction ofcourts of common law and equity over the same subject. 1 Kent, Comm. 300; 4 Steph. Comm. 9.

DIVORCE

The legal separation of man and wife, effected, for cause, by the judgment of a court, and either totally dissolving the marriage relation, or suspending its effects so far as concerns the

DIVORCE A MENSA ET TLIORO

A divorce from table and bed, or from bed and board. Apartial or qualified divorce, by which the parties are separated and forbidden to live orcohabit together, without affecting the marriage itself.

DIVORCE A VINCULO MATRIMONII

A divorce from the bond of marriage. A total divorce ofhusband and wife, dissolving the marriage tie, and releasing the parties wholly fromtheir matrimonial obligations. 1 Bl. Comm. 440; 2 Steph. Comm.

LIMITED DIVORCE

A divorce from bed and board : or a judicialseparation of husband and wife not dissolving tlie marriage tie.Divortium dicitur a divertendo, quia vir divertitur ab more. Co. Litt. 235. Divorce iscalled

DIXIEME

Fr. Tenth; the tenth part Ord. Mar. liv. 1, tit. 1, art. 9.In old French law. An income tax payable to the crown. Steph. Lect. 359.

DO

Lat I give. The ancient and apt- est word of feoffment and of gift 2 Bl. Comm. 310, 316; Co. Litt. 9.

DO, DICO, ADDICO

Lat. I give, I say, I adjudge. Three words used in the Romanlaw, to express the extent of the civil jurisdiction of the prietor. Do denoted that hegave or granted actions, exceptions,

DO, EEGO

Lat I give, I bequeath; or I give and bequeath. The formal words ofmaking a bequest or legacy, in the Roman law. Titio et Seio hominem Stichum do, lego,I give and bequeath

DO UT DES

Lat. I give that you may give; I give [you] that you may give [me.] A formula in the civil law, constituting a general division under which those contracts(termed “innominate”) were classed

DO UT FACIAS

Lat I give that you may do; I give [you] that you may do or make[for me.] A formula in the civil law, under which those contracts were classed in whichone party

DOCIMASIA PULMONUM

In medical jurisprudence. The hydrostatic test used chieflyin 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

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