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  • Double Costs Practice

    English Law: Double Costs Practice in the Past According to the English law, when double costs are given by the statute, the term is not to be understood, according to its literal import, twice the amount of single costs, but in such case the costs are therefore, calculated. 1. There is […]

  • Double Costs Practice

    English Law: Double Costs Practice in the Past According to the English law, when double costs are given by the statute, the term is not to be understood, according to its literal import, twice the amount of single costs, but in such case the costs are therefore, calculated. 1. There is […]

  • Dote Assignando

    English Law: Dote Assignando in the Past The name of a writ which lay in favor of a widow, when it was found by office that the king’s tenant (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.K. encyclopedia) was seised of tenements in fee or fee tail at the time of his death…

  • Dote Assignando

    English Law: Dote Assignando in the Past The name of a writ which lay in favor of a widow, when it was found by office that the king’s tenant (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.K. encyclopedia) was seised of tenements in fee or fee tail at the time of his death…

  • Norman

    Concept of Englecery, Engleshire Traditional meaning of englecery, engleshire [1] in the English common law history: The proving a person slain to be an Englishman, or the fact thereof, whereby the heavy fines imposed upon the hundred for the death of a Dane or Norman, for murdrum, were […]

  • Norman

    Concept of Englecery, Engleshire Traditional meaning of englecery, engleshire [1] in the English common law history: The proving a person slain to be an Englishman, or the fact thereof, whereby the heavy fines imposed upon the hundred for the death of a Dane or Norman, for murdrum, were […]

  • Double Bond

    Concept of Double Bond Traditional meaning of double bond [1] in scots law: In Scotch law, a bond with a penalty. Double costs: the ordinary single costs of a suit, and one half that amount in addition. Double damages: twice the actual damages, as assessed by the jury. Double fine: a fine sur […]

  • Doctors Commons

    English Law: Doctors Commons in the Past A building in London used for a college of civilians. Here the judge of the court of arches, the judge of the admiralty and the judge of the court of Canterbury, with other eminent civilians, reside. Commons signifies, in old English, pittance or […]

  • Domus

    Concept of D.P. Traditional meaning of d.p. [1] in the English common law history: (Domus Procerum, I.). The House of Lords. [rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Based on A concise law dictionary of words, phrases and maxims, “D.P.”, Boston: Little, Brown, and […]

  • Domestic Building

    Domestic building in the Building (Scotland) Act 2003 Meaning of Domestic building in the context of the Building (Scotland) Act 2003: a dwelling or dwellings and any common areas associated with thedwelling.

  • Dome

    Meaning of Dome The following is an old definition of Dome [1]: A judgment, decree, sentence. Dome-book. Any book of judgments. Alfred collected the customs of the kingdom and reduced them to a system or code in his Dom-bec,for the use of his tribunals. The volume also contained the maxims of […]

  • Document

    Definition of Document In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Document : Something that records or transmits information, typically in writing on paper. For the purposes of providing evidence to a court, documents include books, maps, plans, drawings, […]

  • Doli (in) capax

    Doli (in)capax in Legal Latin Meaning of the latin term Doli (in)capax from the University of Kent: (In) capable of wrong’ – A child under the age of 10 is deemed incapable of committing any crime. Above the age of 10 children are doli capax and are treated as adults, although they will […]

  • Domesday Book

    (Source: the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) The original MS. of the Domesday Book is in the PRO. It has had several variant names – Liber de Wintonia, Rotulus Wintoniae, Scriptura Thesauri Regis, Liber Regis, Liber Judicarius, Censualis Angliae, Angliae Notitia et Lustratio, […]

  • Documents

    Company Registration The prescribed documents Find under this subsection information about The prescribed documents in relation to Company Registration.