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domestic,adj.1. Of or relating to one’s own country <domestic affairs>.2. Of or relating to one’s own jurisdiction <in Alaska, a domestic corporation is an Alaskan one>.3. Of or relating to the family or the household <a domestic dispute>. domestic . See DOMESTIC SERVANT. [Blacks Law 8th]

Domesday Book (doomz-day). The census or survey, ordered by William the Conqueror and substantially  completed  in  1086,  of  England’s  landholdings, buildings,  people,  and  livestock.  — Abbr. D.B. — Also spelled Doomsday Book. “Domesday  Book  had  several  variant  names  —  Liber  de  Wintonia,  Rotulus  Wintoniae, Scriptura  Thesauri  Regis,  Liber  Regis,  Liber  Judiciarius,  Censualis  Angliae,  Angliae  Notitia …

domebook. See DOOMBOOK.[Blacks Law 8th]

Dombrowski  doctrine.  A  short-lived  rule  that  entitled  a  person  to  seek  a  federal-court injunction to prevent prosecution under a broad or vague state statute that affects rights guaranteed by  the  First  Amendment.  Dombrowski  v.  Pfister,  380  U.S.  479,  85  S.Ct.  1116  (1965).  •  The doctrine was greatly cut back six years after it was announced,…

domboc. See DOOMBOOK. [Blacks Law 8th]

domain-name infringement.See INFRINGEMENT. [Blacks Law 8th]

domain (doh-mayn), n.1. The territory over which sovereignty is exercised <the 19th-century domains  of  the  British  Empire>.2.  An  estate  in  land  <the  family  domain  is  more  than  6,000 acres>.3. The complete and absolute ownership of land <his domain over this land has now been settled>. See EMINENT DOMAIN; PUBLIC DOMAIN. DOMAIN NAME domain  name.The  words …

DOMA.abbr.DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT. [Blacks Law 8th]

dolus (doh-l<<schwa>>s). [Latin “device; artifice”] Roman & civil law. 1.  Fraud or  deceit; conduct  intended  to  deceive  someone;  bad  faith.  •  Although  there  may  be  dolus  without  fraud, fraud always includes  dolus. Cf. CASUS(1); CULPA(1).2. Intentional aggression; willful injury, esp. to another’s property. — Also termed dolus malus; fraus. “In the twelfth century the resuscitated…

dolose (d<<schwa>>-lohsordoh-lohs). [Latin] Hist. Fraudulently; in a deceitful manner. [Blacks Law 8th]