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Dation






Dation

Civil law, contracts. The act of giving something.

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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.

Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.



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Dative
That which may be given or disposed of at will and pleasure. It sometimes means that which is not cast upon the party by the law, or by a testator, but which is given by the magistrate; in this sense it is that tutorship is dative, when the tutor is appointed by the malistrate.



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Dare
Latin. To give; to transfer.

Darrein
corruption of the French word "dernier," the last.

Darrein seisin
The name of a plea to a writ of entry or a writ of right.

Data protection
Under the Data Protection Act 1984, those holding personal data on computer (where the data relates to identifiable individuals) must observe certain principles in how the data is held and in respect of the collection, holding, disclosure, use and granting of access to that data. In particular they must register with the Data Protection Agency.

Date
Latin datum, a thing given. The primary signification is time "given" or specified, - in some way ascertained and fixed. In the ancient form the clause ran: datum apud, etc., specifying the place and time; thence called the datum clause, afterward shortened to "date".

Dation

Dative
That which may be given or disposed of at will and pleasure. It sometimes means that which is not cast upon the party by the law, or by a testator, but which is given by the magistrate; in this sense it is that tutorship is dative, when the tutor is appointed by the malistrate.

Daughter
An immediate female descendant.

Daughter-in-law
In Latin, nurus, is the wife of one's son.

Day book
Merchant law. An account book, in which merchants and others make entries of their daily transactions. This is generally a book of original entries, and as such may be given in evidence to prove the sale and delivery, of merchandise or of work done.

Day rule
Day rule or Day writ. English practice. A rule or order of the court, by which a prisoner on civil process, and not committed, is enabled, in term time, to go out of the prison, and its rule or bounds.

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