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DotThis French word is adopted in Louisiana. It signifies the fortune, portion, or dowry, which a woman brings to her hushand by the marriage.
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Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Louisiana
The name of one of the new states of the United States of America. This state was admitted into the Union by the act of congress, entitled "An act for the admission of the state of Louisiana into the Union, and to extend the laws of the United States to the said state," approved April 8, 1812.
Portion
That part of a parent's estate, or the estate of one standing in loco parentis, which is given to a child.
Dowry
Formerly applied to mean that which a woman brings to her hushand in marriage; this is now called a portion.
Marriage
A contract made in due form of law, by which a free man and a free woman reciprocally engage to live with each other during their joint lives, in the union which ought io exist between husband and wife. By the terms freeman and freewoman in this definition are meant, not only that they are free and not slaves, but also that they are clear of all bars to a lawful marriage.
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Donor
He who makes a gift.
Doom
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.
Door
The place of usual entrance in a house, or into a room in the house.
Dormant partner
One who is a participant in the profits of a firm, but his name being concealed, his interest is not apparent.
Dot
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.
Dote unde nihil habet
The name of a writ of dower which a widow sues against the tenant, who bought land of her hushand in his lifetime, and in which her dower remains, of which he was seised solely in fee simple or fee tail.
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Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Louisiana
The name of one of the new states of the United States of America. This state was admitted into the Union by the act of congress, entitled "An act for the admission of the state of Louisiana into the Union, and to extend the laws of the United States to the said state," approved April 8, 1812.
Portion
That part of a parent's estate, or the estate of one standing in loco parentis, which is given to a child.
Dowry
Formerly applied to mean that which a woman brings to her hushand in marriage; this is now called a portion.
Marriage
A contract made in due form of law, by which a free man and a free woman reciprocally engage to live with each other during their joint lives, in the union which ought io exist between husband and wife. By the terms freeman and freewoman in this definition are meant, not only that they are free and not slaves, but also that they are clear of all bars to a lawful marriage.
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Donor
He who makes a gift.
Doom
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.
Door
The place of usual entrance in a house, or into a room in the house.
Dormant partner
One who is a participant in the profits of a firm, but his name being concealed, his interest is not apparent.
Dot
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.
Dote unde nihil habet
The name of a writ of dower which a widow sues against the tenant, who bought land of her hushand in his lifetime, and in which her dower remains, of which he was seised solely in fee simple or fee tail.
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