DOM PROC
An abbreviation of Do- mus I’roccrum or Domo Procerum; the house oflords in England. Sometimes expressed by the letters D. P.
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An abbreviation of Do- mus I’roccrum or Domo Procerum; the house oflords in England. Sometimes expressed by the letters D. P.
The complete and absolute ownership of land; a paramount and individualright of property in land. People v. Shearer, 30 Cal. 658. Also the real estate so owned. The inherent sovereign power claimed
A term sometimes applied to the aggregate of the property owned directly by a nation. Civ. Code La. I’.tOO. art. 4NO.
This term embraces all lands, the title to which is in the United States, including as well land occupied forthe purposes of federal buildings, arsenals, dock-yards, etc., as land of an agriculturalor
(Sax. From dom, judgment, and bee, boc, a book.) Dome-bookor doom-book. A name given among the Saxons to a code of laws. Several of the Saxonkings published dombocs, but the most important
(Sax.) Doom; sentence; judgment. An oath. The homager’s oath in the black book of Hereford. Blount.
(Sax.) An ancient record made in the time of William the Conqueror, and now remainingin the English exchequer, consisting of two volumes of unequal size, containing minuteand accurate surveys of the lands
(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.