  In this paper, we transfer Davey`s characterization for $\kappa $--Stone
bounded distributive lattices to lattices with certain kinds of quotients, in
particular to commutator lattices with certain properties, and obtain related
results on prime, radical, complemented and compact elements, annihilators and
congruences of these lattices. We then apply these results to certain
congruence lattices, in particular to those of semiprime members of
semi--degenerate congruence--modular varieties, and use this particular case to
transfer Davey`s Theorem to commutative unitary rings.
