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Derivative power






Derivative power

An authority by which one person enables another to do an act for him.

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Authority
Government. The right and power which an officer has in the exercise of a public function to compel obedience to his lawful commands.

Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.



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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.



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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.

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

Derogation
Civil law. The partial abrogation of a law; to derogate from a law is to enact something which is contrary to it.

Descendant
Those person who are born of, or from children of, another are called that person's descendants. Grandchildren are descendants of their grandfather as children are descendants of their natural parents. The law also distinguishes between collateral descendants and lineal descendants.

Descendants
Those who have issued from an individual, and include his children, grandchildren, and their children to the remotest degree.

Descender
In the descent; as formedon in the descender.

Descriptio personae
Description of the person. In wills, it frequently happens, that the word heir is used as a descriptio personae; it is then a sufficient designation of the person.

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