A bill of exchange drawn on a person residing in the same state with the drawer; or dated at a place in the state, and drawn on a person living […]
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DOMESTIC COMMERCE
Commerce carried on wholly within the limits of the United States , as distinguished from foreign commerce . Also, commerce carried on within the limits of a single state, as […]
DOMESTIC CREDITOR
One who resides in the same state or country in which the debtor has his domicile or his property.
DOMESTICUS
In old European law. A scncschal, steward, or ma jur doino; a Judge’s assistant; an assessor, (
DOMICELLA
In old English law . A damsel. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 20,
DOMICELLUS
In old English law . A better sort of servant in monasteries; also an appellation of a king’s bastard.
DOMICILE
That place in which a man has voluntarily fixed the habitation of himself and family, not for a mere special or temporary purpose, but with the present intention of making […]
DOMICILE OF SUCCESSION
This term, as distinguished from a commercial,political, or forensic domicile, means the actual residence of a person within somejurisdiction, of such a character as shall, according to the well-established principles […]
DOMICILED
Established in a given domicile; belonging to a given state or jurisdiction by right of domicile .
DOMICILIARY
Pertaining to domicile; relating to one’s domicile. Existing or created at, or connected with, the domicile of a suitor or of a decedent.
DOMICILIATE
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.
DOMICILIATION
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, […]
DOMICILIUM
Lat. Domicile, (q. v.)
DOMIEILC OF ORIGIN
The home of the parents. Phillim. Doni. 25, 101. Thatwhich arises from a man’s birth and connections . 5 Yes. 750. The domicile of theparents at the time of birth, […]
DOMIGERIUM
In old English law . Power over another; also danger. Bract. 1. 4, t. 1, c. 10.
DOMINA, (DAME)
A title given to honorable women, who anciently, in their own right of inheritance , held a barony. Cowell.
DOMINANT ESTATE
This land that has control over and restricts the construction of buildings within a set distance from the boundaries.
DOMINANT TENEMENT
A term used in the civil and Scotch law, and thence in ours,relating to servitudes, meaning the tenement or subject in favor of which the service isconstituted ; as the […]
DOMINATIO
In old English law . Lordship
DOMINICA FALMARUM
(Dominica in ramis palmarum.) L. Lat. Palm Sunday. Townsh. PI. 131; Cowell; Blount.
DOMINICAL
That which denotes the Lord’s day, or Sunday.
DOMINICIDE
The act of killing one’s lord or master
DOMINICUM
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 […]
DOMINICUM ANTIQUUM
In old English law . Ancient demesne . Bract, fol. 3096.
DOMININM EM- INENS
Eminent domain