Category: D

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 a permanent residencein some settlement and marrying a native woman, and by attaching oneself to the soil,purchasing or acquiring real property and possessions. Yates v. lams, 10 Tex. 108.

Fraud (or deceit) giving rise to the contract; that is, a fraudulent misrepresentation made by one of the parties to thecontract, and relied upon by the other, and which was actually instrumental in inducingthe latter to enter into the contract.

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 by the legislature of a state, ofcontrolling private property for public uses, Is termed the “right of eminent domain.”2 Kent, Comm. 339. See EMINENT DOMAIN.A distinction has been made between “property” and “domain.” The former is said tobe that quality which is conceived to be in the thing itself, considered as belonging tosuch or such person, exclusively of all others. By the latter is understood that rightwhich the owner has of disposing of the thing, llence “domain” and “property” are saidto be correlative terms, ‘lite one is the active right to dispose of; the other a passivequality which follows the thing aud places it at the disposition of the owner. 3 Toullier, no. S3.

(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 one was that attributed to Alfred.Crabb, Com. Law, 7. This is sometimes confounded with the celebrated Domesday-Book. See DOME-BOOK, DOMES- DAY.

(Sax.) Doom; sentence; judgment. An oath. The homager’s oath in the black book of Hereford. Blount.

A book or code said to have been compiled under the direction ofAlfred, for the general use of the whole kingdom of England; containing, as is supposed,the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, andthe forms of judicial proceedings. It is said to have been extant so late as the reign ofEdward IV., but is now lost. 1 Bl. Comm. 04, 65.

(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 in England. 2 Bl. Comm. 49, 50. The work was begunby five justices in each county in 1081, and finished in 10S0.