KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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and the petition of the creditor, and their ob ject was to obtain from the lord chancellor his fiat, authorizing the petitioner to prosecute his complaint against the bankrupt in the bank ruptcy courts. Brown. DOCTOR. A learned man; one qualified to give instruction of the higher order in a science or art; particularly, one who has re ceived the highest academical degree in his art or faculty, as, a doctor of laws, medicine, or theology. In colloquial language, how ever, the term is practically restricted to practitioners of medicine. Harrison v. State, 102 Ala. 170, 15 South. 563; State v. Mc Knight, 131 N. O. 717, 42 S. E. 580, 59 L. R, A. 187. This term means, simply, practitioner of phy sic, without respect to system pursued. A cer tificate of a homoepathic physician is a "doctor's certificate." Corsi v. Maretzek, 4 E. D. Smith (N. Y.) 1. DOCTOR AND STUDENT. The title of a work written by St. Germain in the reign of Henry VIII. in which many principles of the common law are discussed in a popular manner. It is in the form of a dialogue between a doctor of divinity and a student in law, and has always been considered a book of merit and authority. 1 Kent, Comm. An institution near St. Paul's Churchyard, in London, where, for a long time previous to 1857, the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts used to be held. DOCTRINE. A rule, principle, theory, or tenet of the law; as, the doctrine of mer ger, the doctrine of relation, etc. Doctrinal interpretation. See INTER PRETATION. DOCUMENT. An instrument on which is recorded, by means of letters, figures, or marks, matter which may be evidentially used. In this sense the term "document" ap plies to writings; to words printed, litho graphed, or photographed; to seals, plates, or 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 paper or parchment. 1 Whart. Ev. f 614; Johnson Steel Street-Rail Co. v. North Branch Steel Co. (C. C.) 48 Fed. 194; Arnold v. Water Co., 18 R. I. 189, 26 Atl. 55, 19 L. R. A. 602; Hayden v. Van Cortlandt, 84 Hun, 150, 32 N. Y. Supp. 507. In the plural, the deeds, agreements, title papers, letters, receipts, and other written 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. Rom. § 165. —Ancient documents. Deeds, wills, and other writings more than thirty years old are 504; Orabb, Eng. Law, 482. DOCTORS' COMMONS.

so called; they are presumed to be genuine without express proof, when coming from the proper custody.— Foreign document. One which was prepared or executed in, or which comes from, a foreign state or country.— Judi cial documents. Proceedings relating to liti gation. They are divided into (1) judgments, decrees, and verdicts; (2) depositions, exam inations, and inquisitions taken in the course of a legal process; (3) writs, warrants, plead ings, etc., which are incident to any judicial proceedings. See 1 Starkie, Ev. 252.— Public document. A state paper, or other instru ment of public importance or interest, issued or published by authority of congress or a state legislature. Also any document or record, evi dencing or connected with the public business or the administration of public affairs, preserv ed in or issued by any department of the gov ernment. See Hammatt v. Emerson, 27 Me. 335, 46 Am. Dec. 598.— Documentary evi dence. Such evidence as is furnished by writ ten instruments, inscriptions, documents of all kinds, and also any inanimate objects admis sible for the purpose, as distinguished from "oral" evidence, or that delivered by human beings viva voce. A subdivision of the as, containing nine un cice; the proportion of nine-twelfths, or three-fourths. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note. DOE, JOHN. The name of the fictitious plaintiff in the action of ejectment. 3 Steph. Comm. 618. DODRANS. Lat. In Roman law. DOG-DRAW. In old forest law. The manifest deprehension of an offender against venison in a forest, when he was found drawing after a deer by the scent of a hound led in his hand; or where a person had wounded a deer or wild beast, by shooting at him, or otherwise, and was caught with a dog drawing after him to receive the same. Manwood, Forest Law, 2, c. 8. The Latin of illiterate persons; Latin words put together on the English grammatical system. In maritime law. A light ship or vessel; dogger-fish, fish brought in ships. Cowell. DOG-LATIN. DOGGER. DOGMA. In the civil law. A word oc casionally used as descriptive of an ordi nance of the senate. See Nov. 2, L. 1; Dig. 27, 1, 6. The formal word by which serv ices were reserved and expressed in old con veyances; as "rendering" (reddendo) was expressive of rent. Perk, c 10, §§ 625, 635, 638. DOING. DOED-BANA. In Saxon law. The act ual perpetrator of a homicide. DOER. In Scotch law. An agent or at torney. 1 Kames, Eq. 325. DOGGER-MEN. Fishermen that belong to dogger-ships.