In medical jurisprudence . The hydrostatic test used chieflyin cases of alleged infanticide to determine whether the child was born alive or dead,which consists in immersion of the foetal lungs […]

v. To curtail or diminish, as to dock an entail.

In English law . A warrant given by dock-owners to the owner of merchandise imported and warehousedon the dock, upon the faith of the bills of lading, as a recognition […]

An officer invested with powers within the docks, and a certaindistance therefrom, to direct the mooring and removing of ships, so as to preventobstruction to the dock entrances. Mozley & […]

A charge against vessels for the privilege of mooring to the wharves or inthe slips. People v. Roberts, 92 Cal. 659, 2S l’ac. 6S9. A pecuniary compensation for theuse of […]

v. To abstract and enter in a book. 3 Bl. Comm. 397, 398. To make a briefentry of any proceeding in a court of justice in the docket

An attorney’s fee, of a fixed sum. chargeable with oras a part of the costs of the action, for the attorney of the successful party ; so calledbecause chargeable on […]

A learned man ; one qualified to give instruction of the higher order in ascience or art; particularly, one who has received the highest academical degree in hisart or faculty, […]

The title of a work written by St. Germain in the reign ofHenry VIII. in which many principles of the common law are discussed iu a popularmanner. It is in […]

An institution near St. Paul’s Churchyard, iu London, where,for a long time previous to 1857, the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts used to be held.

A rule, principle, theory, or tenet of the law; as, the doctrine of merger, the doctrine of relation, etc. Doctrinal interpretation . See INTERPRETATION.

An instrument on which is recorded, by means of letters, figures, or marks, matter which may be evidentially used. In this sense the term “document” applies to writings; to words […]

A commercial LETTER OF CREDIT committing the BANK to pay a named BENEFICIARY , such as a seller of goods, once a confirming document has been delivered to the buyer; […]

Such evidence as is furnished by written instruments,inscriptions, documents of all kinds, and also any inanimate objects admissible for the purpose, as distinguished from “oral” evidence, or that delivered by […]

the term used to describe papers, instruments, written statements and anything that has been written down.

Lat. In Roman law. A subdivision of the as, containing nine under,; theproportion of nine-twelfths, or three-fourths. 2 Bl. Comm. 402, note.

The name of the fictitious plaintiff in the action of ejectment. 3 Steph. Comm. 018.

In Saxon law. The actual perpetrator of a homicide.

Sax. A wound. Spelman.

A recompense for a scar or wound. Cowell.

Lat. See DOLUS.

In Spanish law. Bad or mischievous design. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 1, c. 1,

In Scotch law. An agent or attorney. 1 Kames, Eq. 325.

In old forest law. The manifest deprehension of an offender againstvenison in a forest, when he was found drawing after a deer by the scent of a houndled in his […]

The Latin of illiterate persons; Latin words put together on the English grammatical system.