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Descendants
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DescendantsThose who have issued from an individual, and include his children, grandchildren, and their children to the remotest degree.
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Grandchildren
Domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim.
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.
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Descanso Detention Facility
A detention center in California.
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.
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.
Description
A written account of the state and condition of personal property, titles, papers, and the like. It is a kind of inventory, but is more particular in ascertaining the exact condition of the property, and is without any appraisement of it.
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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.
Derivative power
An authority by which one person enables another to do an act for him.
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
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.
Description
A written account of the state and condition of personal property, titles, papers, and the like. It is a kind of inventory, but is more particular in ascertaining the exact condition of the property, and is without any appraisement of it.
Deserter
One who abandons his post.
Desertion
"1) Criminal law. An offence which consists in the abandonment of the public service, in the army or navy, without leave. 2) Torts. The act by which a man abandons his wife and children, or either of them.
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Grandchildren
Domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim.
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.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Descanso Detention Facility
A detention center in California.
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.
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.
Description
A written account of the state and condition of personal property, titles, papers, and the like. It is a kind of inventory, but is more particular in ascertaining the exact condition of the property, and is without any appraisement of it.
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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.
Derivative power
An authority by which one person enables another to do an act for him.
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
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.
Description
A written account of the state and condition of personal property, titles, papers, and the like. It is a kind of inventory, but is more particular in ascertaining the exact condition of the property, and is without any appraisement of it.
Deserter
One who abandons his post.
Desertion
"1) Criminal law. An offence which consists in the abandonment of the public service, in the army or navy, without leave. 2) Torts. The act by which a man abandons his wife and children, or either of them.
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