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Degradation
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DegradationPunishment, ecclesiastical law. A censure by which a clergy man is deprived of his holy orders, which he had as a priest or deacon.
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Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
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.
Censure
An official reprimand or condemnation of an attorney.
Clergy
All who are attached to the ecclesiastical ministry are called the clergy; a clergyman is therefore an ecclesiastical minister.
Orders
1) Rules made by a court or other competent jurisdiction. The formula is generally in those words: It is ordered, &c. 2) Orders also signify the instructions given by the owner to the captain or commander of a ship which he is to follow in the course of the vovage.
Deacon
Ecclesiastical law. A minister or servant in the church whose office, in some churches, is to assist the priest in divine service, and the distribution of the sacrament.
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Degree
1) Descents. This word is derived from the French degre, which is itself taken from the Latin gradus, and signifies literally, a step in a stairway, or the round of a ladder. 2) measures. In angular measures, a degree is equal to sixty minutes, or the thirtieth part of a sine. 3) persons. By degree, is understood the state or condition of a person.
Degrees
Academical. Marks of distinction conferred on students, in testimony of their proficiency in arts and sciences.
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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.
Degradation
Degree
1) Descents. This word is derived from the French degre, which is itself taken from the Latin gradus, and signifies literally, a step in a stairway, or the round of a ladder. 2) measures. In angular measures, a degree is equal to sixty minutes, or the thirtieth part of a sine. 3) persons. By degree, is understood the state or condition of a person.
Degrees
Academical. Marks of distinction conferred on students, in testimony of their proficiency in arts and sciences.
Dehors
Out of; without. By this word is understood something out of the record, agreement, will, or other thing spoken of; something foreign to the matter in question.
Dei judicium
The judgment of God.
Del credere
Contracts. A del credere commission is one under which the agent, in consideration of an additional premium, engages to insure to his principal not only the solvency of the debtor, but the punctual discharge of the debt; and he is liable, in the first instance, without any demand from the debtor.
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Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
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.
Censure
An official reprimand or condemnation of an attorney.
Clergy
All who are attached to the ecclesiastical ministry are called the clergy; a clergyman is therefore an ecclesiastical minister.
Orders
1) Rules made by a court or other competent jurisdiction. The formula is generally in those words: It is ordered, &c. 2) Orders also signify the instructions given by the owner to the captain or commander of a ship which he is to follow in the course of the vovage.
Deacon
Ecclesiastical law. A minister or servant in the church whose office, in some churches, is to assist the priest in divine service, and the distribution of the sacrament.
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Degree
1) Descents. This word is derived from the French degre, which is itself taken from the Latin gradus, and signifies literally, a step in a stairway, or the round of a ladder. 2) measures. In angular measures, a degree is equal to sixty minutes, or the thirtieth part of a sine. 3) persons. By degree, is understood the state or condition of a person.
Degrees
Academical. Marks of distinction conferred on students, in testimony of their proficiency in arts and sciences.
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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.
Degradation
Degree
1) Descents. This word is derived from the French degre, which is itself taken from the Latin gradus, and signifies literally, a step in a stairway, or the round of a ladder. 2) measures. In angular measures, a degree is equal to sixty minutes, or the thirtieth part of a sine. 3) persons. By degree, is understood the state or condition of a person.
Degrees
Academical. Marks of distinction conferred on students, in testimony of their proficiency in arts and sciences.
Dehors
Out of; without. By this word is understood something out of the record, agreement, will, or other thing spoken of; something foreign to the matter in question.
Dei judicium
The judgment of God.
Del credere
Contracts. A del credere commission is one under which the agent, in consideration of an additional premium, engages to insure to his principal not only the solvency of the debtor, but the punctual discharge of the debt; and he is liable, in the first instance, without any demand from the debtor.
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