DOMESMEN
(Sax.) An inferior kind of judges. Men appointed to doom (judge) in matters in controversy. Cowell. Suitors Ina court of a manor in ancient demesne, who are judges there. Blouut; Whishaw;Termes de
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(Sax.) An inferior kind of judges. Men appointed to doom (judge) in matters in controversy. Cowell. Suitors Ina court of a manor in ancient demesne, who are judges there. Blouut; Whishaw;Termes de
In old European law. A scncschal, steward, or ma jur doino; a Judge’s assistant; an assessor, (
In old English law. A damsel. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 20,
In old English law. A better sort of servant in monasteries; also an appellation of a king’s bastard.
That place in which a man has voluntarily fixed the habitation of himself and family, not for a mere special or temporary purpose, but with the present intention of making a permanent
In French law, permanent and fixed residence in France of an alienwho has not acquired French citizenship nor taken steps to do so, but who intends tomake his home permanently or indefinitely
The home of the parents. Phillim. Doni. 25, 101. Thatwhich arises from a man’s birth and connections. 5 Yes. 750. The domicile of theparents at the time of birth, or what is
The domicile of parties fixed in a contract between them forthe purposes of such contract. Woodworth v. Bank of America, 19 Johns. (N. Y.) 417. 10 Am. Dec. 239.
Pertaining to domicile; relating to one’s domicile. Existing or created at, or connected with, the domicile of a suitor or of a decedent.
To establish one’s domicile ; to take up one’s fixed residence in agiven place. To establish the domicile of another person whose legal residence follows one’s own.
In Spanish law. The acquisition of domiciliary rights and status,nearly equivalent to naturalization, which may be accomplished by being born in thekingdom, by conversion to the Catholic faith there, by taking up
Lat. Domicile, (q. v.)
A title given to honorable women, who anciently, in their own right of inheritance, held a barony. Cowell.
A term used in the civil and Scotch law, and thence in ours,relating to servitudes, meaning the tenement or subject in favor of which the service isconstituted ; as the tenement over
In old English law. Lordship
(Dominica in ramis palmarum.) L. Lat. Palm Sunday. Townsh. PI. 131; Cowell; Blount.
That which denotes the Lord’s day, or Sunday.
The act of killing one’s lord or master
Lat. Domain; demain; demesne. A lordship. That of which one has thelordship or ownership. That which remains under the lord’s immediate charge and control. Spelman.Property; domain; anything pertaining to a lord. Cowell.In
In old English law. Ancient demesne. Bract, fol. 3096.