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on of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii. "from the bond of matrimony."

Your sins will dog you, pursue you. Burroughs. Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly supplicate as hunt the person whom they address to, dogging him from place to place, till they even extort an answer to their rude requests. South.

Jurisdiction or property and jurisdiction, dominion, as in kingdom earldom.

Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne. Shenstone.

ing or bestowing; a grant. After donation there an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given. South.

A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over.

Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium. Clarke. -- n. (Med.)

To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.

e or isolated points of a curve are called double points, since they possess most of the properties of double points (see Conjugate). They are also called acnodes, and those points where the branches of the curve really cross are called crunodes. The extremity of a cusp is also a double point. -- Double quarrel. (Eccl…

r having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease. Blount. Burrill.

two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.

The property with which a woman is endowed; especially:

e in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks.

hips as are taken by noncommissioned captors; also, the proceeds of wrecks, and derelict property at sea. The droits of admiralty are now paid into the Exchequer for the public benefit.

relating to the mere right of property, as distinguished from the right of possession; as, droitural actions. [Obs.] Burrill.

ace of the water, raising a succession of jets; hence: To play at ducks and drakes, with property, to throw it away heedlessly or squander it foolishly and unprofitably. -- Lame duck. See under Lame.

The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.

Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit. Her obedience, which is due to me. Shak. With dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Gray.

opposed to any violence, and unwilling to use the labor of animals. Driven out of Russia proper, many have emigrated to Cyprus and Canada. See Raskolnik, below.

In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly.