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Dictator
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DictatorCivil law. A Magistrate at Rome invested with absolute power.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
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.
Magistrate
Mun. law. A public civil officer, invested with some part of the legislative, executive, or judicial power given by the constitution. In a narrower sense this term includes only inferior judicial officers, as justices of the peace.
Absolute
Without any condition or encumbrance, as an "absolute bond,"simplex obligatio, in distinction from a conditional bond;
Power
This is either inherent or derivative. The former is the right, ability, or faculty of doing something, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another. The people have the power to establish a form of govemment, or to change one already established. A father has the legal power to chastise his son; a master, his apprentice.
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Dicta or dictum
Latin: an observation by a judge on a matter not specifically before the court or not necessary in determining the issue before the court; a side opinion which does not form part of the judgment for the purposes of stare decisis. May also be called "obiter dictum."
Dictum
Latin. A saying, observation, remark. Plural, dicta. 1. A voluntary statement; a comment. 2. An opinion expressed by a judge on a point not necessarily arising in a case.
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Devisee
A person to whom a devise has been made.
Devoir
Duty.
Devolution
Ecclesiastical law. The transfer, by forfeiture, of a right and power which a person has to another, on account of some act or negligence of the person who is vested with such right or power.
Dicey
Albert Vein Dicey. As Vinerian professor of English law at Oxford (1882-1909), Dicey published his three most influential works: the Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885); Conflict of Laws (1896); and Law and Opinion in the Nineteenth Century (1905). Today, Dicey & Morris, The Conflict of Laws, 13 Ed. (2000) is the classic text on fixed rules solving conflict of law problems in England.
Dicta or dictum
Latin: an observation by a judge on a matter not specifically before the court or not necessary in determining the issue before the court; a side opinion which does not form part of the judgment for the purposes of stare decisis. May also be called "obiter dictum."
Dictator
Dictum
Latin. A saying, observation, remark. Plural, dicta. 1. A voluntary statement; a comment. 2. An opinion expressed by a judge on a point not necessarily arising in a case.
Dies
A day. There are four sorts of days: 1) A natural day; as, the morning and the evening made the first day. 2) An artificial day; that is, from day-break until twilight in the evening. 3) An astrological day, dies astrologicus, from sun to sun. 4) A legal day, which is dies juridicus, and dies non juridicus.
Dies a quo
The day from which.
Dies ad quem
The day to which.
Dies datus
Practice. A day or time given to a defendant in a suit, which is in fact a continuance of the cause.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
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.
Magistrate
Mun. law. A public civil officer, invested with some part of the legislative, executive, or judicial power given by the constitution. In a narrower sense this term includes only inferior judicial officers, as justices of the peace.
Absolute
Without any condition or encumbrance, as an "absolute bond,"simplex obligatio, in distinction from a conditional bond;
Power
This is either inherent or derivative. The former is the right, ability, or faculty of doing something, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another. The people have the power to establish a form of govemment, or to change one already established. A father has the legal power to chastise his son; a master, his apprentice.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Dicta or dictum
Latin: an observation by a judge on a matter not specifically before the court or not necessary in determining the issue before the court; a side opinion which does not form part of the judgment for the purposes of stare decisis. May also be called "obiter dictum."
Dictum
Latin. A saying, observation, remark. Plural, dicta. 1. A voluntary statement; a comment. 2. An opinion expressed by a judge on a point not necessarily arising in a case.
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Devisee
A person to whom a devise has been made.
Devoir
Duty.
Devolution
Ecclesiastical law. The transfer, by forfeiture, of a right and power which a person has to another, on account of some act or negligence of the person who is vested with such right or power.
Dicey
Albert Vein Dicey. As Vinerian professor of English law at Oxford (1882-1909), Dicey published his three most influential works: the Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885); Conflict of Laws (1896); and Law and Opinion in the Nineteenth Century (1905). Today, Dicey & Morris, The Conflict of Laws, 13 Ed. (2000) is the classic text on fixed rules solving conflict of law problems in England.
Dicta or dictum
Latin: an observation by a judge on a matter not specifically before the court or not necessary in determining the issue before the court; a side opinion which does not form part of the judgment for the purposes of stare decisis. May also be called "obiter dictum."
Dictator
Dictum
Latin. A saying, observation, remark. Plural, dicta. 1. A voluntary statement; a comment. 2. An opinion expressed by a judge on a point not necessarily arising in a case.
Dies
A day. There are four sorts of days: 1) A natural day; as, the morning and the evening made the first day. 2) An artificial day; that is, from day-break until twilight in the evening. 3) An astrological day, dies astrologicus, from sun to sun. 4) A legal day, which is dies juridicus, and dies non juridicus.
Dies a quo
The day from which.
Dies ad quem
The day to which.
Dies datus
Practice. A day or time given to a defendant in a suit, which is in fact a continuance of the cause.
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