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Death
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DeathCessation of life; extinction of political existence.
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Life
The aggregate of the animal functions which resist death. Bichat.
Political
Pertaining to policy, or the administration of the government. Political rights are those which may be exercised in the formation or administration of the government they are distinguished from civil, rights, which are the rights which a man enjoys, as regards other individuals, and not in relation to the government. A political corporation is one which has principally for its object the administration of the government, or to which the powers of government, or a part of such powers, have been delegated.
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Death and gore
An adult entertainment concept not related to the legal concept of murder.
Death bed
Scotch law. The incapacity to exercise the power of disposing of one's property after being attacked with a mortal disease.
Death penalty
The judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offense or a capital crime.
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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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
A man born deaf, dumb, and blind, is considered an idiot.
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
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
Debenture
A certificate given, in pursuance of law, by the collector of a port of entry, for a certain sum, due by the United States, payable at a time therein mentioned, to an importer for drawhack of duties on merchandise imported and exported by him, provided the duties arising on the importation of the said merchandise shall have been discharged prior to the time aforesaid.
Debet
Latin. He owes; from debere: de habere, to have a thing of some one. Debet et detinet - He owes and with holds.
Debet et detinet
Pleading. He owes and detains. In an action of.debt, the form of the writ is either in the debet and detinet, that is, it states that the defendant owes and unjustly detains the debt or thing in question, it is so brought between the original contracting parties; or, it is in the detinet only; that is, that the defendant unjustly detains from the plaintiff the debt or thing for which the action is brought; this is the form in in action by an executor, because the debt or duty is not due to him, but it is unjustly detained from him.
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Life
The aggregate of the animal functions which resist death. Bichat.
Political
Pertaining to policy, or the administration of the government. Political rights are those which may be exercised in the formation or administration of the government they are distinguished from civil, rights, which are the rights which a man enjoys, as regards other individuals, and not in relation to the government. A political corporation is one which has principally for its object the administration of the government, or to which the powers of government, or a part of such powers, have been delegated.
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Death and gore
An adult entertainment concept not related to the legal concept of murder.
Death bed
Scotch law. The incapacity to exercise the power of disposing of one's property after being attacked with a mortal disease.
Death penalty
The judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offense or a capital crime.
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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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
A man born deaf, dumb, and blind, is considered an idiot.
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
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
Debenture
A certificate given, in pursuance of law, by the collector of a port of entry, for a certain sum, due by the United States, payable at a time therein mentioned, to an importer for drawhack of duties on merchandise imported and exported by him, provided the duties arising on the importation of the said merchandise shall have been discharged prior to the time aforesaid.
Debet
Latin. He owes; from debere: de habere, to have a thing of some one. Debet et detinet - He owes and with holds.
Debet et detinet
Pleading. He owes and detains. In an action of.debt, the form of the writ is either in the debet and detinet, that is, it states that the defendant owes and unjustly detains the debt or thing in question, it is so brought between the original contracting parties; or, it is in the detinet only; that is, that the defendant unjustly detains from the plaintiff the debt or thing for which the action is brought; this is the form in in action by an executor, because the debt or duty is not due to him, but it is unjustly detained from him.
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