DOUBLE

Twofold; acting in two capacities or having two aspects; multiplied by two. This term has ordinarily the same H meaning in law as in popular speech. The principal compound terms into which it enters are noted below. -Double adultery. ·Adultery committed by two persons each of whom is married to an- I other aa distinguished from "single" adultery, where one of the participants is unmarried. Hunter v: U. S., 1 Pin. (Wis.) 91, 39.A.m. Dec. 277.-Double avail of In arriage. In Scotch law. Double the ordinary or single value of a,marriage. Bell. See DUPLEX VAL0R MAi1- TAGII.-Double bond. In Scotch taw. A bond with a penalty, as distinguished from a J single bond. 2 Karnes, Eq. 359.-Double complaint, or double quarrel. In ecclesiastical law. A grievance made known by a clerk_ or othei: person, to.the archbishop of the provmce,,agamst the ordmary, for delaying or refusing to do justice in some cause ecclesias• tical, as to give sentence, Institute a clerk etc. K 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 delayed; the effect whereof is that the archbish• op, taking notice of the delay, directs bis letters, under his authentical seal, to all clerks of his province, commanding them to admonish L 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 te signify to the orqi1;1ary that if he neither perform the thing enJomed, nor appear nor 1,how cause against it, he himself, in his court of audience, will M forthwith proceed to do the justice that is due, [s. 399]