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Deaf, dumb, and blind
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Deaf, dumb, and blindA man born deaf, dumb, and blind, is considered an idiot.
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Dumb
One who cannot speak; a person who is mute.
Blind
One who is deprived of the faculty of seeing.
Idiot
Persons. A person who has been without understanding from his nativity, and whom the law, therefore, presumes never likely to attain any.
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Dead man's part
English law. By the custom of London, when a deceased freeman of the city left a widow and children, after deducting what was calledthe widow's chamber, (q.v.) his personal property was divided into three parts; one of which belonged to the widow, another tot he children, and the third to the administrator.
Dead-born
Descent, persons. Children dead-born are considered, in law, as if they had never been conceived, so that no one can claim a title, by descent, through such dead-born child.
Deadfreight
A sum of damages payable by the charterer to the shipowner or intermediate charterer where the charterer loads less cargo than promised in the charterparty.
Deadlock
By splitting voting rights of shareholders and directors equally between two interests in a joint venture company, each party can prevent those activities of which it does not approve. If a dispute blows up, the deadlock is difficult to break without one of the parties being bought out.
Dead-pledge
A mortgage of lands or goods - mortuum vadium.
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Dealings
Traffic, trade; the transaction of business between two or more persons.
Dean
Ecclesiastical law. An ecelesiastictl officer, who derives his name from the fact that he presides over ten canons, or, prebondaries, at least.
Death
Cessation of life; extinction of political existence.
Death bed
Scotch law. The incapacity to exercise the power of disposing of one's property after being attacked with a mortal disease.
Death's part
English law. That portion of the personal estate of a deceased man which remained after his wife and children had received their reasonable parts from his estate
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Dumb
One who cannot speak; a person who is mute.
Blind
One who is deprived of the faculty of seeing.
Idiot
Persons. A person who has been without understanding from his nativity, and whom the law, therefore, presumes never likely to attain any.
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Dead man's part
English law. By the custom of London, when a deceased freeman of the city left a widow and children, after deducting what was calledthe widow's chamber, (q.v.) his personal property was divided into three parts; one of which belonged to the widow, another tot he children, and the third to the administrator.
Dead-born
Descent, persons. Children dead-born are considered, in law, as if they had never been conceived, so that no one can claim a title, by descent, through such dead-born child.
Deadfreight
A sum of damages payable by the charterer to the shipowner or intermediate charterer where the charterer loads less cargo than promised in the charterparty.
Deadlock
By splitting voting rights of shareholders and directors equally between two interests in a joint venture company, each party can prevent those activities of which it does not approve. If a dispute blows up, the deadlock is difficult to break without one of the parties being bought out.
Dead-pledge
A mortgage of lands or goods - mortuum vadium.
Deaf, dumb, and blind
Dealings
Traffic, trade; the transaction of business between two or more persons.
Dean
Ecclesiastical law. An ecelesiastictl officer, who derives his name from the fact that he presides over ten canons, or, prebondaries, at least.
Death
Cessation of life; extinction of political existence.
Death bed
Scotch law. The incapacity to exercise the power of disposing of one's property after being attacked with a mortal disease.
Death's part
English law. That portion of the personal estate of a deceased man which remained after his wife and children had received their reasonable parts from his estate
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