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

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

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.

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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,

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

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

In Saxon law. The actual perpetrator of a homicide.

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

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

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

In maritime law. A light ship or vessel; dogger-fish, fish brought in ships. Cowell.

Fishermen that belong to dogger-ships.

In the civil law. A word occasionally used as descriptive of an ordinance of the senate. See Nov. 2, 1, 1; Dig. 27, 1, 6.