Category: D

In French law. Guarantor of negotiable paper other than by indorsement

A writ that lay for one against his neighbor, by the anticipatedfall of whose house he feared a damage and injury to his own. Reg. Orig. 153.DOMUS. Lat. In the civil and old English law. A house or dwelling; a habitation. Inst.4, 4, 8; Townsh. PI. 183-185. Bennet v. Bittle, 4 Rawle (Pa.) 342.

In old English law. He by whom lands were given to another; the party making a donatio.In later law. He who gives lands or tenements to another in tail. Litt.

Lat. Tame; domesticated; not wild. Applied to domestic animals, in which a man may have an absolute property. 2 Bl. Comm. 391.

The act of killing one’s lord or master

In French law. Damages.

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 ecclesiastical law. A church, or any other building consecrated to God. Du Gauge.

In old records. A chapter-house; the chapter-house. Dyer, 206.

In old English law. Ancient demesne. Bract, fol. 3096.

An ancient house built or appointed by King Henry III. for suchJews as were converted to the Christian faith; but King Edward III., who expelled theJews from the kingdom, deputed the place for the custody of the rolls and records ofthe chancery. Jacob.