KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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DOS DE DOTE PETI NON DEBET

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DOTE, v. "To besot" is to stupefy, to make dull or senseless, to make to dote; and "to dote" is to be delirious, silly, or insane. Gates v. Meredith, 7 Ind. 441. DOTE ASSIGNANDA. A writ which lay for a widow, when it was judicially as certained that a tenant to the king was seis ed of tenements in fee or fee-tail at the day of his death, and that he held of the king in chief. In such case the widow might come into chancery, and then make oath that she would not marry without the king's leave, and then she might have this writ. These widows were called the "king's wid-- ows." Jacob; Holthouse. DOTE UNDE NIHIL HABET. A writ which lies for a widow to whom no dower has been assigned. 3 Bl. Comm. 182. By 23 & 24 Vict. c. 126, an ordinary action commenced by writ of summons has taken its place; but it remains in force in the United States. Dower unde nihil habet (which title see.) Doti lex favet; prsemium pudoris est; ideo parcatur. Co. Litt. 31. The law fa vors dower; it is the reward of chastity; therefore let it be preserved. DOTIS ADMINISTRATIS Admeasure ment of dower, where the widow holds more than her share, etc —Double adultery. Adultery committed by two persons each of whom is married to an other as distinguished from "single" adultery, where one of the participants is unmarried. Hunter v. U. S., 1 Pin. (Wis.) 91, 39 Am. Dec. 277.—Double avail of marriage. In Scotch law. Double the ordinary or single value of a marriage. Bell. See DUPLEX VALOB MABI TAGII.—Double bond. In Scotch law. A bond with a penalty, as distinguished from a single bond. 2 Karnes, Eq. 359—Double complaint, or double quarrel. In eccle siastical law. A grievance made known by a clerk or other person, to the archbishop of the province, against the ordinary, for delaying or refusing to do justice in some cause ecclesias tical, as to give sentence, institute a clerk, etc. It is termed a "double complaint," because it is most commonly made against both the judge and him at whose suit justice is denied or de layed ; the effect whereof is that the archbish op, taking notice of the delay, directs his let ters, under his authentical seal, to all clerks of his province, commanding them to admonish the ordinary, within a certain number of days, to do the justice required, or otherwise to ap pear before him or his official, and there allege the cause of his delay* and t« signify to the ordinary that if he neither perform the thing enjoined, nor appear nor show cause against it, he himself, in his court of audience, will forthwith proceed to do the justice that is due. DOTISSA. A dowager. DOUBLE. Twofold; acting in two ca pacities or having two aspects; multiplied by two. This term has ordinarily the same meaning in law as in popular speech. The principal compound terms into which it en ters are noted below.

estate, to which every widow is entitled, of lands of which her hushand may have endowed her on the day of marriage. Co. Litt. 336. Dower, at common law. 2 Bl. Oomm. 134. Dower ought not to be demanded of dower. Co. Litt. 31; 4 Coke, 122 ft. A widow is notdow able of lands assigned to another woman in dower. 1 Hill. Real Prop. 135. Dos rationabilis vel legitima est cujus libet mulieris de quocunque tenemento tertia pars omnium terramm et tene mentorum, quae vir suus tenuit in do minio suo u t de feodo, etc. Co. Litt. 336. Reasonable or legitimate dower belongs to every woman of a third part of all the lands and tenements of which her husband was seised in his demesne, as of fee, etc. DOT. (A French word, adopted in Louisi ana.) The fortune, portion, or dowry which a woman brings to her husband by the mar riage. DOTAGE. Dotage is that feebleness of the mental faculties which proceeds from old age. It is a diminution or decay of that in tellectual power which was once possessed. It is the slow approach of death; of that irrevocable cessation, without hurt or dis ease, of all the functions which once be longed to the living animal. The external functions gradually cease; the senses waste away by degrees; and the mind is imper ceptibly visited by decay. Owing's Case, 1 Bland (Md.) 389, 17 Am. Dec. 311. DOTAL. Relating to the dos or portion of a woman ; constituting her portion; com prised in her portion. —Dotal property. In the civil law, in Louisi ana, by this term is understood that propertv which the wife brings to the husband to assist him in bearing the expenses of the marriage establishment. Extradotal property, otherwise called "paraphernal property," is that which forms no part of the dowry. Civ. Code La. art. 2335; Fleitas v. Richardson, 147 U. S. 550, 13 Sup. Ct. 495, 37 L. Ed. 276. Dos de dote peti non debet. law. Dower. Spelman, voc. "Doarium;" Calvin. 2 Bl. Comni. 129. Used as early as A. D. 841. DOTATION. The act of giving a dowry or portion; endowment in general, including the endowment of a hospital or other char itable institution. DOTE, ». In Spanish law. The marriage portion of a wife. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 6, c. 1. The property which the wife gives to the husband on account of marriage, or for the purpose of supporting the matri monial expenses. Id. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 1, § 1; Schm. Civil Law, 75; Cutter v. Wadding ham, 22 Mo. 254; Hart Y. Burnett, 15 CaL 560. DOTALITIUM. In canon and feudal