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Deputy of the attorney general
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Deputy of the attorney generalAn 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.
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Attorney
A graduate of an accredited law school and member in good standing of the Bar Association. Only attorneys can give legal advice.
General
1) A principal officer, particularly in the army. 2) Something opposed to special; as, a general verdict, the general issue, which expressions are used in contradistinction to special verdict, special issue. 3) Principal, as the general post office. 4) Not select, as a general ship. 5) Not particular, as a general custom. 5) Not limited, as general jurisdiction. 7) This word is sometimes annexed or prefixed to other words to express or limit the extent of their signification; as Attorney General, Solicitor General, the General Assembly.
Hold
To decide, adjudge, decree. Whence also freehold and leasehold. "Holding", relating to ownership in property, embraces two idea: actual possession of some subject of property, and being invested with the legal title. It may be applied to anything the subject of property, in law or in equity.
Office
An office is a right to exercise a public function or employment, and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it
District
A certain portion of the country, separated from the rest for some special purposes.
Duties
In its most enlarged sense, this word is nearly equivalent to taxes, embracing all impositions or charges levied on persons or things; in its more restrained sense, it is often used as equivalent to customs or imposts.
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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.
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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.
Depredation
French law. The pillage which is made of the goods of a decedent.
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
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.
Derelicto
Civil law. Goods voluntarily abandoned by their owner; he must, however, leave them, not only sine spe revertendi, but also sine animzo revertendi.
Derivative
Coming from another; taken from something preceding, secondary; as derivative title, which is that acquired from another person.
Derivative citizenship
Citizenship conveyed to children through the naturalization of parents or, under certain circumstances, to foreign-born children adopted by U.S. citizen parents, provided certain conditions are met.
Derivative power
An authority by which one person enables another to do an act for him.
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Attorney
A graduate of an accredited law school and member in good standing of the Bar Association. Only attorneys can give legal advice.
General
1) A principal officer, particularly in the army. 2) Something opposed to special; as, a general verdict, the general issue, which expressions are used in contradistinction to special verdict, special issue. 3) Principal, as the general post office. 4) Not select, as a general ship. 5) Not particular, as a general custom. 5) Not limited, as general jurisdiction. 7) This word is sometimes annexed or prefixed to other words to express or limit the extent of their signification; as Attorney General, Solicitor General, the General Assembly.
Hold
To decide, adjudge, decree. Whence also freehold and leasehold. "Holding", relating to ownership in property, embraces two idea: actual possession of some subject of property, and being invested with the legal title. It may be applied to anything the subject of property, in law or in equity.
Office
An office is a right to exercise a public function or employment, and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it
District
A certain portion of the country, separated from the rest for some special purposes.
Duties
In its most enlarged sense, this word is nearly equivalent to taxes, embracing all impositions or charges levied on persons or things; in its more restrained sense, it is often used as equivalent to customs or imposts.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
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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.
Depredation
French law. The pillage which is made of the goods of a decedent.
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
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.
Derelicto
Civil law. Goods voluntarily abandoned by their owner; he must, however, leave them, not only sine spe revertendi, but also sine animzo revertendi.
Derivative
Coming from another; taken from something preceding, secondary; as derivative title, which is that acquired from another person.
Derivative citizenship
Citizenship conveyed to children through the naturalization of parents or, under certain circumstances, to foreign-born children adopted by U.S. citizen parents, provided certain conditions are met.
Derivative power
An authority by which one person enables another to do an act for him.
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