Law-dictionary explaining the rise, progress and present state of the British law etc. 3. ed. with additions - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 Excerpt: ...better sorts of servants in monasteries. DOMICILE. The place where a man has his home. See title Alien. Personal property follows the person of the owner, and on his decease must be distributed according to the law of the county in which he was domiciled at the time of his death, and not according to the law of the county where such property is situate. Bruce v. Bruce, Cases in Parliam. 2 Bos. 8f Put 229. See title Executor. The residence of a party for forty days constitutes a domicile as to jurisdiction in Scotland.--When there are two houses, which appear equally intitled to the appellation of domicile, the person is liable to both jurisdictions; but a person may have no domicile, as a soldier or travelling merchant, in which case a personal citation renders him subject to the jurisdiction of the judge within whose jurisdiction he is cited. BelPs Scotch Law Diet. DOMIGERIUM. Is sometimes used to signify danger; but otherwise, and perhaps more properly, it is taken for power over another; sub domigerio alicujus vel manu esse. Bract, lib. 4. tract. 1. cap. 10. DOMINA. A title given to honourable women, who anciently in their own right of inheritance held a barony. Paroch. Antiq. DOMINANT TENEMENT. A term used in the Scotch law in the constitution of servitudes, and means the Tenement or subject in favour of which the service is constituted; as the tenement over which the servitude extends is called the servient tenement. Bell's Scotch Law Diet. DOMINICA IN RAMIS PALMARUM, Palm Sunday. DOMINIUM. Right or power. Paroch. Antiq. 498. Dominium Directum, and Dominium Utile, are terms by which the rights of the superior and vassal are distinguished in the Scotch Law. The right of superiority is termed the dominium directum, as being the highest and most ancient o...
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