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DOCK, DOCKING, in Law, a Means, or Expediei.. for cutting off an EftateTail in Lands, or Tenements; that the Owner may be enabled to fell, give, or bequeath them. See Til l.
To effect this, a feigned Writ of Entry fir Dijfeifin in le Toft is brought of the Lands whereof he intends to dock the Entail ; and in a feigned Declaration made thereon 'tis pretended he was difleis'd by a Perfon, who by a feigned Fine, or Deed of Bargain, and Sale, is named, and fuppofed to be Tenant of the Lands.
The feigned Tenant, if it be a fingle Recovery, is made to appear, and vouch the Bag-bearer of Writs for the Cujlos Bre- mum in the Court of Common Pleas ; who malting Default, a Judgment is by fuch Fiflion of Law enter'd, that the De- mandant fliall recover, and have a Writ of Seifin for thePof- fvffion of the Lands demanded ; and that the Tenant ftiall recover the Value of the Lands, againft the Lands of the Vouchee Bag-bearer, a poor, unlanded, illiterate Perfon; which is feigned to be a Satisfaction to the Heir in Law; tho' he never be to expect it. See Recovery. Dock, in the Sea Language, a Pit, great Pond, by the Side of an Harbour, made convenient to in order to build, or repair Ships.
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This is of two Sorts ^ 1. A*Z)ry Z)ock, where the Wa- ter is kept out by great Flood-gates, till the Ship is built, or repaired, but afterwards can be eafily let into it again to floa-t, and launch her.
2. AWetDock, is any Place in the Ouze, out of the Tide's Way, where a Ship may be haled in, and fo dock herfc-Jf, or fink iierfelf a Place to lie in.
DOCKET, a little Bill tied to Wares, or Goods, and di- rected to the Perfon, and Place they are to be fent to.
DOCTOR, a Perfon who has pafs'd all the Degrees of a Faculty, and is impower'd to teach, or praotife the fame. See Degree.
The Title dt'Doblor was firft created towards the Middle of the Xllth Century 5 to fucceed to that of Mafter, which was become too common, and familiar. See Master.
The Eflabliftiment of 2)oBoraees, fuch as now in Ufe among us, is ordinarily attributed to Irnerius, who himfelf drew up the Formulary. The firft Ceremony of this Kind was perforin'd at "Bottlcgne, in the Perfon of Sulgarus t who began to profefs the Roman Law, and -on that Occa- £on was folemnly promoted to the Doilorate, i. e. inftall'd Juris utrwfque ODoclor.
But the Cuftom was foon borrow'd from the Faculty of Law to that of Theology : The firft Inflance whereof was given in the Univerfity of 'Paris, where 'Peter Lom- bard, and Gilbert de la Porree, the two top Divines of thofe Days, were created tDoclor's in Theology, Sa&'ce fheologid? tDotlores.
Sfelmau gives another Turn to the Thing : He takes the Title 2)o£for not to have commenced till after the Publica- tion of Lombard's Sentences, about the Year 1 140, and af- firms, that fuch as explain'd that Work to their Scholars, were the firft that had the Appellation of ' 1)o£iors.
Others go much higher, and hold Sede to have been the firft fLo&or at Cambridge, and John de 'Beverley at Oxford, which latter died in the Year 721. But SpefmOn will not allow DoBor to have been the Name of any Title, or Degree mBngland, till theReign otYSngJobn, about the Year 1207.
To pais 'BoEtor ofUimnity at Oxford, 'tis neceflary the Candidate have been 4 Years Batchelor of Divinity. For fBoBor of Laws, he mult have been 7 Years in the Univerfity to commence Batchelor of Law 5 5 Years after which he may be admitted 1)oEior of Laws. Otherwife, in three Years al- ter taking the Degree of Mafter of Arts, he may take the Degree of Batchelor in Law j and in_four Years more, that
lators call 'em Lawyers. Bnt the French Verfion ofDotleurs de la Lot, feems the mofl adequate. I n effeft the Word L" gtspemus is only found in St. Luke, and St. 'Paul Titus 111. 13. and Kipiius in St. Matthew, XXII. , s . ; s ren der'd by the Vulgate, Legis Doctor; tho' the Bnglijh Verfion Mill retains, Lawyer.
Thefe Jewifi Doctors are the fame whom they otherwife fed! Rabbins. See Rabbin.
Boctor a f the Church, a Title given to certain of the Fathers who have publifh'd Books, and whofe Doctrines and Opinions have been the moll generally followed, and autho- rized by the Church.
We ufually reckon four Doctors of the Greek Church,
i n r , o of ,he Latin - The firft are St - Athanafius, St. Bajil, St. Gregory hlazianzen, and St. Chryfoflom. The latter are St. Ambrofe, St. Jerom, St. Auguflin, mi Gre- gory the Great.
In the Romifi Breviary there is a particular Office for the
Doctors. It only differs ftom that of the Confeffors by the
or Cteek Al i!, em of the Ma V"ficat, and the I.effons.
work in r T1 L e A PP dlatl0n Doctor has fince been adjoyn'd to
' fpecific Epithets, expreffing wherein the Merit of i
fever a 1 »' fuch as the Schools ownd for their Mailers, confifted.
Thus Alexander Hales is call'd the Irrefragable DoSor, and the Fountain of Life, as mention'd in Poffevinus. Tho- mas Anuinas is call'd the Angelical Dotfor ; St.Bonaven- tnrejhe Seraphic T)oaor ; John Duns Scotus, the Subtile Hotter ; Raimoud Lully the VluminatedDoctor ; Roger 'Bacon the Admirable Doctor ; William Ocham the Sin- gular Doffor : John Gerfon, and Card. Cufa the Mofl Chrifliau Doctors ; Dionyfms the Carthufian, the Extatic Doctor ; and an Infinity ofothets to be met withal in Ec- clefiaftical Writers.
Doctob, S'll'a.'ut.a.M;, in the Greek Church, is a particular Officer, appointed to interpret Part of the Scriptures. He who interprets the Gofpcls, is call'd Doctor of the Gofpels : He who interprets St. 2Vz/AEpiftles, Doctor of the Apoflle: He who interprets the Pfalms, Doctor of the 'Pfalter.
DOCUMENT, in Law, a Proof given of any Fact' af- ferred ; but chiefly with regard to ancient Matters.
Thus we fay, The Antiquity of the Foundation of fuch a Church is proved by a Number of authentic Titles and Documents.
DODEC AEDRON, in Geometry, one of the regular Bo- dies, comprehended under twelve equal Sides each whereof is a Pentagon. See Regular. 'Body.
Or a Dodecaedron mscy be conceiv'd to confift of twelve Quinquangular Pyramids, whofe Vertices, or Tops meet in the Centre of a Sphere conceiv'd to circumfcribe the Solid - confequently they have their Bafes and Altitudes equal. ' To find the Solidity of the Dodecaedron ; find that of one of the Pyramids, and multiply it by the Number of Ba- fes, viz. n, the Product is the Solidity of the whole Body. Or its Solidity is found by multiplying the Bafe into ± of its Diftance from the Centre, 12 times: And to find 'this Diftance, take the Diftance of two parallel Faces : the Half is the Height. See Solid, and Solidity.
The Diameter of the Sphere being given, the- Side of the Dodecaedron is found by this Theorem : The Square of the Diameter of the Sphere is equal to the ReBangle under the Aggregate of the Sides of a Dodecaedron and Hexaeiron mfcribed in the fame, and triple the Side of the Dodecae- dron. ' Thus, if the Diameter of the Sphere be 1, the Side of the Dodecaedron inferibed will be (/* /f)':i; Confe- quently, that, is to this, as 2 to (/f— / j ) and the Square
of that, to the Square of this, as 4 to 5 y'j. Therefore
of LLT): which fame Method and Time are likewife re- the Diameter of the Sphere is incommenfurable to the Side quired to pafs the Degree of Doclor in 'Phyjic. of an inferibed Dodecaedron both in it felf, and its Power
At Cambridge, to take the Degree oiDoSor in Divinity DODECAGON, a regular Polygon, or Fio'ure with -welvo' 'tis required the Candidate have been 7 Years Batchelor of e q ua l Sides and Angles. See Polygon Divinity. Tho' in feveral of the Colleges, the taking of the Dials are fometimes drawn on all the Sides oUDod. Batchelor of Divinity's Degree is difpenfed with, and they - To commence DoEtor in Laws,
may go out per Saltum. the Candidate muft have been five Years Batchelor of Law, or. feven Years Mafter of Arts. To pafs DoSor in r Phyfic, he muft have been Batchelor in Phyfic 5 Years , or 7 Years Mafter of Arts.
Doctor of the Law, was a Title of Honour, or Dignity among the Jews.
The Jews, 'tis certain, had Doctors long before Jefus Chrifl. The Inveftiture, if we may fo fay, of this Order, was perform'd by putting a Key, and a Table-Book in their Hands ; which is what fome Authors imagine our Saviour had in View, Luke XI. 52. where, fpeaking of rhe Doctors of the Law, he fays, Woe unto you Doctors of the Law, for you have taken away the Key of Knowledge ; you enter'd not in yourfelves, and them that were enter'd, you hin- der'd.
The Greek Text of St. Luke calls 'em No/uwi ; and the Vulgate Lcgtsperiti ; agreeably to which our Englifh Tranf-
to the twelve Parts of the to diftinguifti 'em from the
gon. Sec Dial.
In Fortification, a Place furrounded with twelve Baftions is call d a Dodecagon : Such is Palma Nova, mFriuli &c'
DODECATEMORY, in Aftronomy, the 12th Part 'of *' Circle. See Circle, Arch, (Sc
The Term is chiefly applied Zodiac of the 'Primum Mobile, 12 Signs.
Dodecatemory, is alfo a Denomination fome Authors give to each of the twelve Signs of the Zodiac, by reafon they contain a twelfth Part of the Zodiac a-piece. See Sign.
DODONjEUS, DODONIAN, in Antiquity, an Epithet given to Jupiter, as adored, or worffiipp'd in the Temple of Dodona, in Dodoua's Grove, or Foreft.
Dodona, whence the Appellation arifes, is an ancient City o{ Epirus, celebrated on divers Accounts, as the Foretl of Dodona, the Oracle of Dodona, and the Fountain ofDoiona
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