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Definition of Docked
1. dock [v] - See also: dock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Docked
Literary usage of Docked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Commentaries, Or Reports of Edmund Plowden: ... Containing Divers Cases by Edmund Plowden (1816)
"... now the Fee is cut off from it, and the Estate thereby is docked, Estate is
docked, or cut off, (for before it was a Fee-simple, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"We hoped to be docked at Callao, but owing to the prolonged occupation of the
dock by a disabled steamer and the uncertainty of its becoming free within ..."
3. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"A curial is a docked horse, but not necessarily a small one, as some have asserted.
I'd give bay curta!, and his furniture, My mouth no more were broken ..."
4. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"A reversion on an estate tail is of but little value, as \*s~Y~^J it is distant,
and may be docked and defeated. 4 Com. D. § 15. A remainder always means ..."
5. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1824)
"But a reversion in fee, expectant upon an estate tail, shall not be assets, till
it comes into possession ; for it may be docked by the tenant in tail at ..."
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