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stones on which inscriptions are cut or en graved; to photographs and pictures; to maps and plans. The inscription may be on stone or gems, or on wood, as well as on pa per or parchment. 1 Whart. Ev. § 614. DOCUMENTS. The deeds, agreements, title-papers, letters, receipts, and other writ ten instruments used to prove a fact. In the civil law. Evidence delivered in the forms established by law, of whatever nature such evidence may be. The term is, however, applied principally to the testimony of witnesses. Sav. Dr. Kom. § 165. DODBANS. Lat. In Eoman law. A subdivision of the as, containing nine un cice; the proportion of nine-twelfths, or three fourths. 2 Bl. Comra. 462, note. DOE, JOHN. The name of the fictitious plaintiff in the action of ejectment. 3 Steph. Comm. 618. DCED-BANA. In Saxon law. The act ual perpetrator of a homicide. DOER. In Scotch law. An agent or at torney. 1 Kames, Eq. 325. DOG-DBAW. In old forest law. The manifest deprehension of an offender against venison in a forest, when he was found draw ing after a deer by the scent of a hound led in his hand; or where a peisou had wounded a deer or wild beast, by shooting at him, or Otherwise, and was caught with a dog draw ing after him to receive the same. Man wood, Forest Law, 2, c. 8. DOG-LATIN. The Latin of illiterate persons; Latin words put together on the English grammatical system. DOGGER. In maritime law. A light ship or vessel; dogger-ft>>h, fishbrought in ships. Cowell. DOGGER-MEN. Fishermen that be long to dogger-ships. DOGMA. In the civil law. A word occasionally used as descriptive of an ordi nance of the senate. See Nov. 2, 1, 1; Dig. 27, 1, 6. DOING. The formal word by which services were reserved and expressed in old conveyances; as "rendering" (reddendo) was expressive of rent. Perk. c. 10, §§ 625, 635, 688. DOITKIN, or DOIT. A base coin of unall value, prohibited by St. 3 Hen. V. o. 1. We still retain the phrase, in the com

mon saying, when we would undervalue a man, that he is not worth a doit. Jacob. DOLE. A part or portion of a meadow is so called; and the word has the general signification of share, portion, or the like; as "to dole out" anything among so many poor persons, meaning to deal or distribute in por tions to them. Holthouse. In Scotch law. Criminal intent; evil de sign. Bell, Diet. voc. "Crime." DOLES, or DOOLS. Slips of pasture left between the furrows of plowed land. DOLG. Sax. A wound. Spelman. DOLG-BOTE. A recompense for a scar or wound. Cowell. DOLI CAFAX. Lat. Capable of malice or criminal intention; having sufficient dis cretion and intelligence to distinguish be tween right and wrong, and so to become amenable to the criminal laws. DOLI INCAPAX. Incapable of crimi nal intention or malice; not of the age of discretion; not possessed of sufficient discre tion and intelligence to distinguish between right and wrong to the extent of being criminally responsible for his actions. DOLLAR. The unit employed in the United States in calculating money values. It is coined both in gold and silver, and is of the value of one hundred cents. DOLO. In Spanish law. Bad or mis chievous design. White, New Recop. b. 1* tit. 1, c. 1, § 3. Dolo facit qui petit quod redditurus est. He acts with guile who demands that which he will have to return. Broom, Max. 346. Dolo malo paeturn se non servatu rum. Dig. 2, 14,7, § 9. An agreement in duced by fraud cannot stand. Dolosus versatur in generalibus. A person intending to deceive deals in genera] terms. Wing. Max. 636; 2 Coke, 34a/ 6 Clark & F. 699; Broom. Max. 289. Dolum ex indiciis perspicuis probari convenit. Fraud should be proved by clear tokens. Code, 2, 21,6; 1 Story, Cont. § 625. DOLUS. In the civil law. Guile; de ceitfulness; malicious fraud. A fraudulent address or trick used to deceive some one; a fraud. Dig. 4, 3, 1. Any subtle contriv ance by words or acts with a design to cir cumvent. 2 Kent, Comm. 560* Code, 2, 2L

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