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Dormant partner






Dormant partner

One who is a participant in the profits of a firm, but his name being concealed, his interest is not apparent.

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Profits
In general, by this term is understood the benefit which a man derives from a thing. It is more particularly applied to such benefit as arises from his labor and skill.

Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.

Interest
1) Estates. The right which a man has in a chattel real, and more particularly in a future term. It is a word of less efficacy and extent than estates, though, in legal understanding, an interest extends to estates, rights and titles which a man has in or out of lands, so that by a grant of his whole interest in land, a reversion as well as the fee simple shall pass. 2) Contracts. The right of property which a man has in a thing, commonly called insurable interest. 3) Evidence. The benefit which a person has in the matter about to be decided and which is in issue between the parties.

Apparent
That which is manifest what is proved. It is required that all things upon which a court must pass, should be made to appear, if matter in pays, under oath if matter of record, by the record. It is a rule that those things which do not appear, are to be considered as not existing de non apparentibus et non existentibus eadem est ratio.



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He who makes a gift.

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This word formerly signified a judgment.

Doom-book
Doom-book, Dome-book or Dom-bec. A book in which Alfred the Great, of England, after uniting the Saxon heptarchy, collected the various customs dispersed through the kingdom, and digested them into one uniform code.

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Dormant partner

Dot
This French word is adopted in Louisiana. It signifies the fortune, portion, or dowry, which a woman brings to her hushand by the marriage.

Dotal property
By the civil law, and in Louisiana, by this term is understood that property, which the wife brings to the hushand to assist him in bearing the expenses of the marriage establishment.

Dotation
French law. The act by which the founder of a hospital, or other charity, endows it with property to fulfil its destination.

Dote
Spanish law. The property which the wife gives to the hushand on account of marriage.

Dote assignando
English law. The name of a writ which lay in favor of a widow, when it was found by office that the king's tenant was seised of tenements in fee or fee tail at the time of his death, and that he held of the king in chief.

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