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.

The formal word by which services were reserved and expressed in old conveyances; as “rendering” (reddendo) was expressive of rent. Perk. c. 10,

A base coin of small value, prohibited by St. 3 Hen. V. c. 1. Westill retain the phrase, In the common saying, when we would undervalue a man, thathe is not worth

A part or portion of a meadow is so called; and the word has the generalsignification of share, portion, or the like; as “to dole out” anything among so manypoor persons, meaning

Slips of pasture left between the furrows of plowed land.

Sax. A wound. Spelman.

A recompense for a scar or wound. Cowell.

Lat. See DOLUS.

The unit employed in the United States in calculating money values. It iscoined both in gold and silver, and is of the value of one hundred cents.

In Spanish law. Bad or mischievous design. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 1, c. 1,

In the civil law. Guile; de- ceitfulness; malicious fraud. A fraudulent addressor trick used to deceive some one; a fraud. Dig. 4, 3, 1. Any subtle contrivance bywords or acts with a

In a wide sense, the Roman law distinguishes between”good,” or rather “permissible” dolus and “bad” or fraudulent dolus. The former isjustifiable or allowable deceit; it is that which a man may employ

Fraud (or deceit) giving rise to the contract; that is, a fraudulent misrepresentation made by one of the parties to thecontract, and relied upon by the other, and which was actually instrumental

Incapable of criminal intention or malice; not of the age of discretion; not possessed of sufficient discretion and intelligence to distinguish between right and wrong to the extent of being criminally responsible