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Dotation
DotationFrench law. The act by which the founder of a hospital, or other charity, endows it with property to fulfil its destination. RELATED TERMS-------------------------------------- Law A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system. Property Property is commonly thought of as a thing which belongs to someone and over which a person has total control. But, legally, it is more properly defined as a collection of legal rights over a thing. These rights are usually total and fully enforceable by the state or the owner against others. It has been said that "property and law were born and die together. Before laws were made there was no property. Take away laws and property ceases." before laws were written and enforced, property had no relevance. Possession was all that mattered. There are many classifications of property, the most common being between real property or immoveable property (real estate such as land or buildings) and "chattel", or "moveable" (things which are not attached to the land such as a bicycle, a car or a hammer) and between public (property belonging to everybody or to the state) and private property. Destination Common law. The port at which a ship is to end her voyage is called her port of destination. SIMILAR TERMS-------------------------------------- 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. PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS-------------------------------------- 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 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 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. Double Twofold. Double actionability The former English common law rule of conflict of laws in tort, whereby a suit could only be maintained in England for an alleged wrong committed abroad (1) if the wrong would have been actionable had it been committed in England and (2) if it was also civilly actionable in the place where it was committed. We thank you for using the Juridical Dictionary to search for Dotation. If you have a better definition for Dotation than the one presented here, please let us know by making use of the suggest a term option. This definition of Dotation may be disputed by other professionals. Our attempt is to provide easy definitions on Dotation and any other medical topic for the public at large.
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