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DRAWING. A representation on paper, card, or other substance.2. The Act of Congress of July 4, 1836, section 6, requires all persons who apply for let...

DRAIN. Conveying the water from one place to another, for the purpose of drying the former2. The right of draining water through another map's lan...

DOWER UNDE NIHIL HABET. This is a writ of right in its nature. It lies only against the tenant of the freehold. 12 Mass. 415 2 Saund. 43, note 1; Hen....

DOVE. The name of a well known bird.2. Doves are animals ferae naturae, and not the subject of larceny, unless they are in the owner's custody; as...

DOUBLE INSURANCE, contracts. Where the insured makes, two insurances on the same risk, and the same interest. 12 Mass. 214. It differs from re-insuran...

DOTE, Span. law. The property which the wife gives to the hushand on account of marriage.2. It is divided into adventitia and profectitia; the former ...

DONATION INTER Vivos, contracts. A contract which takes place by the mutual consent, of the giver, who divests himself of the thing given in order to ...

DONATIO MORTIS CAUSA, contracts, legacies. A gift in prospect of death. When a person in sickness, apprehend ing his dissolution near, delivers, or ca...

DOMINANT. estates. In the civil law, this term is used to signify the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate; for example,...

DOME-BOOK, DOOM-BOOK or DOM-BEC A book in which Alfred the Great, of England, after uniting the Saxon heptarchy, collected the various customs dispers...