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Depredation
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DepredationFrench law. The pillage which is made of the goods of a decedent.
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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.
Pillage
The taking by violence of private property by a victorious army from the citizens or subjects of the enenly. This, in modern times, is seldom allowed, and then, only when authorized by the commander or chief officer, at the place where the pillage is committed. The property thus violently taken in general belongs to the common soldiers
Decedent
In the acts of descent and distribution in Pennsylvania, this word is frequently used for a deceased person, testate or intestate.
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Depreciation
In appraising, a loss in property value from any cause. in regard to improvements, deterioration and obsolescence. in accounting, an allowance made against the loss in value of an asset for a defined purpose and computed using a specified method.
Deprivation
Ecclesiastical punishment. A censure by which a clergyman is deprived of his parsonage, vicarage, or other ecclesiastical promotion or dignity.
Deprive
Referring to property taken under the power of eminent domain, means the same as "take". While the Fourteenth Amendment ordains that no state shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law", no definition of the word "deprive" is found in the Constitution.
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Deportable alien
An alien in and admitted to the United States subject to any grounds of removal specified in the Immigration and Nationality Act. This includes any alien illegally in the United States, regardless of whether the alien entered the country by fraud or misrepresentation or entered legally but subsequently violated the terms of his or her nonimmigrant classification or status.
Deportation
Civil law. Among the Romans a perpetual banishment, depriving the banished of his rights as a citizen; it differed from relegation and exile.
Deposition
Ecclesiastical. law. The act of depriving a clergyman, by a competent tribunal, of his clerical orders, to punish him for some offence, and to prevent his acting in future in his clerical character.
Depositor
Contracts. He who makes a deposit.
Depreciation
In appraising, a loss in property value from any cause. in regard to improvements, deterioration and obsolescence. in accounting, an allowance made against the loss in value of an asset for a defined purpose and computed using a specified method.
Depredation
Deprivation
Ecclesiastical punishment. A censure by which a clergyman is deprived of his parsonage, vicarage, or other ecclesiastical promotion or dignity.
Deprive
Referring to property taken under the power of eminent domain, means the same as "take". While the Fourteenth Amendment ordains that no state shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law", no definition of the word "deprive" is found in the Constitution.
Deputy district attorneys
The Act of Congress of March 3, 1815 authorizes and directs the district attorneys of the United States to appoint by warrant, an attorney as their substitute or deputy in all cases when necessary to sue or prosecute for the United States, in any of the state or county courts, by that act invested with certain jurisdiction, within the sphere of whose jurisdiction the said district attorneys do not themselves reside or practice.
Deputy of the attorney general
An officer appointed by the attorney general, who is to hold his office during the pleasure of the latter, and whose duty it is to perform, within a specified district, the duties of the attorney general.
Derelict
Common law. This term is applied in the common law in a different sense from what it bears in the civil law. In the former it is applied to lands left by the sea.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
Pillage
The taking by violence of private property by a victorious army from the citizens or subjects of the enenly. This, in modern times, is seldom allowed, and then, only when authorized by the commander or chief officer, at the place where the pillage is committed. The property thus violently taken in general belongs to the common soldiers
Decedent
In the acts of descent and distribution in Pennsylvania, this word is frequently used for a deceased person, testate or intestate.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Depreciation
In appraising, a loss in property value from any cause. in regard to improvements, deterioration and obsolescence. in accounting, an allowance made against the loss in value of an asset for a defined purpose and computed using a specified method.
Deprivation
Ecclesiastical punishment. A censure by which a clergyman is deprived of his parsonage, vicarage, or other ecclesiastical promotion or dignity.
Deprive
Referring to property taken under the power of eminent domain, means the same as "take". While the Fourteenth Amendment ordains that no state shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law", no definition of the word "deprive" is found in the Constitution.
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Deportable alien
An alien in and admitted to the United States subject to any grounds of removal specified in the Immigration and Nationality Act. This includes any alien illegally in the United States, regardless of whether the alien entered the country by fraud or misrepresentation or entered legally but subsequently violated the terms of his or her nonimmigrant classification or status.
Deportation
Civil law. Among the Romans a perpetual banishment, depriving the banished of his rights as a citizen; it differed from relegation and exile.
Deposition
Ecclesiastical. law. The act of depriving a clergyman, by a competent tribunal, of his clerical orders, to punish him for some offence, and to prevent his acting in future in his clerical character.
Depositor
Contracts. He who makes a deposit.
Depreciation
In appraising, a loss in property value from any cause. in regard to improvements, deterioration and obsolescence. in accounting, an allowance made against the loss in value of an asset for a defined purpose and computed using a specified method.
Depredation
Deprivation
Ecclesiastical punishment. A censure by which a clergyman is deprived of his parsonage, vicarage, or other ecclesiastical promotion or dignity.
Deprive
Referring to property taken under the power of eminent domain, means the same as "take". While the Fourteenth Amendment ordains that no state shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law", no definition of the word "deprive" is found in the Constitution.
Deputy district attorneys
The Act of Congress of March 3, 1815 authorizes and directs the district attorneys of the United States to appoint by warrant, an attorney as their substitute or deputy in all cases when necessary to sue or prosecute for the United States, in any of the state or county courts, by that act invested with certain jurisdiction, within the sphere of whose jurisdiction the said district attorneys do not themselves reside or practice.
Deputy of the attorney general
An officer appointed by the attorney general, who is to hold his office during the pleasure of the latter, and whose duty it is to perform, within a specified district, the duties of the attorney general.
Derelict
Common law. This term is applied in the common law in a different sense from what it bears in the civil law. In the former it is applied to lands left by the sea.
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