DOGMA, civil law. This word is used in the first chapter, first section, of the second Novel, and signifies an ordinance of the senate. See also Dig. ...
DOCKET, practice. A formal record of judicial proceedings.2. The docket should contain the names of the parties, and a minute of every proceeding in t...
DIVORCE. The dissolution of a marriage contracted between a man and a woman, by the judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, or by an act of the...
DISTRINGAS, remedies. A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to distrain one of his goods and chattels, to enforce his compliance of what is r...
DISTRESS INFINITE, English practice. A process commanding the sheriff to distrain a person from time to time, and continually afterwards, by taking hi...
TO DISTRAIN. To take an keep any personal chattel in custody, as a distress. (q. v.)DISTRAINOR. One who makes a distress of goods and chattels to enfo...
DISSEISOR, torts. One who puts another out of the possession of his lands wrongfully.DISSENT, contracts. A disagreement to something which has been do...
DISPARAGEMENT. An injury by union or comparison with some person or thing of inferior rank or excellence; as, while the infant was in ward, by the Eng...
DISINHERITANCE. The act by which a person deprives his heir of an inheritance, who, without such act, would inherit.2. By the common law, any one may ...
DISCRETIONARY TRUSTS. Those which cannot be duly administered without the application of a certain degree of prudence and judgment; as when a fund is ...