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DefinitionAn enumeration of the particular acts included by or under a name: as, the definition of a crime.
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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Definition
An enumeration of the particular acts included by or under a name: as, the definition of a crime.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
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Deficient
Incomplete; defective; not sufficient in quantity or force.
Deficit
This Latin term signifies that something is wanting. It is used to express the deficiency which is discovered in the accounts of an accountant, or in the money in which he has received.
Define
To set bounds to, mark the limits of.
Definite
Bounded, fixed, certain. Opposed, indefinite.
Definite number
An ascertained number; the term is usually applied in opposition to an indefinite number.
Definitio
Latin. A bounding, limiting; defining, definition.
Definitive
That which terminates a suit a definitive sentence or judgment is put in opposition to an interlocutory judgment; final.
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Deficit
This Latin term signifies that something is wanting. It is used to express the deficiency which is discovered in the accounts of an accountant, or in the money in which he has received.
Define
To set bounds to, mark the limits of.
Definite
Bounded, fixed, certain. Opposed, indefinite.
Definite number
An ascertained number; the term is usually applied in opposition to an indefinite number.
Definitio
Latin. A bounding, limiting; defining, definition.
Definition
Definitive
That which terminates a suit a definitive sentence or judgment is put in opposition to an interlocutory judgment; final.
Defloration
The act by which a woman is deprived of her virginity.
Deforcement
1) Scotch law. The opposition given, or resistance made, to messengers or other officers, while they are employed in executing the law. 2) Tort. In its most extensive sense it signifies the holding of any lands or tenements to which another person has a right, so that this includes, as well, an abatement, an intrusion, a disseisin, or a discontinuance, as any other species of wrong whatsoever, by which the owner of the freehold is kept out of possession.
Deforciare
To withhold lands or tenements from the right owner.
Defunct
A term used for one that is deceased or dead. In some acts of assembly in Pennsylvania, such deceased person is called a decedent.
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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Definition
An enumeration of the particular acts included by or under a name: as, the definition of a crime.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
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Deficient
Incomplete; defective; not sufficient in quantity or force.
Deficit
This Latin term signifies that something is wanting. It is used to express the deficiency which is discovered in the accounts of an accountant, or in the money in which he has received.
Define
To set bounds to, mark the limits of.
Definite
Bounded, fixed, certain. Opposed, indefinite.
Definite number
An ascertained number; the term is usually applied in opposition to an indefinite number.
Definitio
Latin. A bounding, limiting; defining, definition.
Definitive
That which terminates a suit a definitive sentence or judgment is put in opposition to an interlocutory judgment; final.
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Deficit
This Latin term signifies that something is wanting. It is used to express the deficiency which is discovered in the accounts of an accountant, or in the money in which he has received.
Define
To set bounds to, mark the limits of.
Definite
Bounded, fixed, certain. Opposed, indefinite.
Definite number
An ascertained number; the term is usually applied in opposition to an indefinite number.
Definitio
Latin. A bounding, limiting; defining, definition.
Definition
Definitive
That which terminates a suit a definitive sentence or judgment is put in opposition to an interlocutory judgment; final.
Defloration
The act by which a woman is deprived of her virginity.
Deforcement
1) Scotch law. The opposition given, or resistance made, to messengers or other officers, while they are employed in executing the law. 2) Tort. In its most extensive sense it signifies the holding of any lands or tenements to which another person has a right, so that this includes, as well, an abatement, an intrusion, a disseisin, or a discontinuance, as any other species of wrong whatsoever, by which the owner of the freehold is kept out of possession.
Deforciare
To withhold lands or tenements from the right owner.
Defunct
A term used for one that is deceased or dead. In some acts of assembly in Pennsylvania, such deceased person is called a decedent.
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