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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

DOCK

v. To curtail or diminish, as to dock an entail.

DOCKAGE

A charge against vessels for the privilege of mooring to the wharves or inthe slips. People v. Roberts, 92 Cal. 659, 2S l’ac. 6S9. A pecuniary compensation for theuse of a dock

DOCK-MASTER

An officer invested with powers within the docks, and a certaindistance therefrom, to direct the mooring and removing of ships, so as to preventobstruction to the dock entrances. Mozley & Whitley.

DOCK WARRANT

In English law. A warrant given by dock-owners to the owner of merchandise imported and warehousedon the dock, upon the faith of the bills of lading, as a recognition of his title

DOCKET

v. To abstract and enter in a book. 3 Bl. Comm. 397, 398. To make a briefentry of any proceeding in a court of justice in the docket

DOCKET FEE

An attorney’s fee, of a fixed sum. chargeable with oras a part of the costs of the action, for the attorney of the successful party ; so calledbecause chargeable on the docket,

DOCTOR

A learned man ; one qualified to give instruction of the higher order in ascience or art; particularly, one who has received the highest academical degree in hisart or faculty, as, a

DOCTOR AND STUDENT

The title of a work written by St. Germain in the reign ofHenry VIII. in which many principles of the common law are discussed iu a popularmanner. It is in the form

DOCTRINE

A rule, principle, theory, or tenet of the law; as, the doctrine of merger, the doctrine of relation, etc. Doctrinal interpretation. See INTERPRETATION.

DOCUMENT

An instrument on which is recorded, by means of letters, figures, or marks, matter which may be evidentially used. In this sense, the term “document” applies to writings; to words printed, lithographed,

PUBLIC DOCUMENT

A state paper, or other instrument of public importance or interest, issued or published by authority ofcongress or a state legislature. Also any document or record, evidencing or connectedwith the public business

DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE

Such evidence as is furnished by written instruments,inscriptions, documents of all kinds, and also any inanimate objects admissible for the purpose, as distinguished from “oral” evidence, or that delivered by human beings

DOE, JOHN

The name of the fictitious plaintiff in the action of ejectment. 3 Steph. Comm. 018.

DOED-BANA

In Saxon law. The actual perpetrator of a homicide.

DOER

In Scotch law. An agent or attorney. 1 Kames, Eq. 325.

DOG-DRAW

In old forest law. The manifest deprehension of an offender againstvenison in a forest, when he was found drawing after a deer by the scent of a houndled in his hand; or

DOG-LATIN

The Latin of illiterate persons; Latin words put together on the English grammatical system.

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