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Diocese
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DioceseEcclesiastical law. The district over which a bishop exercises his spiritual functions.
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Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
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.
District
A certain portion of the country, separated from the rest for some special purposes.
Bishop
An ecclesiastical officer, who is the chief of the clergy of his diocese, and is the archbishop's assistant.
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Dilatory defense
A defense designed to dismiss, suspend, or obstruct the prosecution of a claim, without touching upon the defendant's "meritorious defense".
Dilatory pleas
Those which delay the plaintiff's remedy, by questioning, not the cause of action, but the propriety of the suit, or the mode in which the remedy is sought.
Diligence
1) In Scotland, there are certain forms of law, whereby a creditor endeavors to make good his payment, either by affecting the person of his debtor, or by securing the subjects belonging to him from alienation, or by carrying the property of these subjects to himself. 2) Contracts. The doing things in proper time.
Dime
Money. A silver coin of the United States, of the value of one-tenth part of a dollar or ten cents.
Diminution of the record
Practice. This phrase signifies that the record from an inferior court, sent up to a superior, is incomplete.
Diocese
Diploma
An instrument of writing, executed by, a corporation or society, certifying that a certain person therein named is entitled to a certain distinction therein mentioned.
Diplomacy
The science which treats of the relations and interests of nations with nations.
Diplomat
An official representative of a state, present in another state for the purposes of general representation of the state-of-origin or for the purpose of specific international negotiations on behalf of the diplomat's state-of-origin.
Diplomatic agents
This name has been given to public officers, who have been commissioned, according to law, to superintend and transact the affairs of the government which has employed them, in a foreign country.
Diplomatics
The art of judging of ancient charters, public documents or diplomas, and discriminating the true from the false.
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Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
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.
District
A certain portion of the country, separated from the rest for some special purposes.
Bishop
An ecclesiastical officer, who is the chief of the clergy of his diocese, and is the archbishop's assistant.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Dilatory defense
A defense designed to dismiss, suspend, or obstruct the prosecution of a claim, without touching upon the defendant's "meritorious defense".
Dilatory pleas
Those which delay the plaintiff's remedy, by questioning, not the cause of action, but the propriety of the suit, or the mode in which the remedy is sought.
Diligence
1) In Scotland, there are certain forms of law, whereby a creditor endeavors to make good his payment, either by affecting the person of his debtor, or by securing the subjects belonging to him from alienation, or by carrying the property of these subjects to himself. 2) Contracts. The doing things in proper time.
Dime
Money. A silver coin of the United States, of the value of one-tenth part of a dollar or ten cents.
Diminution of the record
Practice. This phrase signifies that the record from an inferior court, sent up to a superior, is incomplete.
Diocese
Diploma
An instrument of writing, executed by, a corporation or society, certifying that a certain person therein named is entitled to a certain distinction therein mentioned.
Diplomacy
The science which treats of the relations and interests of nations with nations.
Diplomat
An official representative of a state, present in another state for the purposes of general representation of the state-of-origin or for the purpose of specific international negotiations on behalf of the diplomat's state-of-origin.
Diplomatic agents
This name has been given to public officers, who have been commissioned, according to law, to superintend and transact the affairs of the government which has employed them, in a foreign country.
Diplomatics
The art of judging of ancient charters, public documents or diplomas, and discriminating the true from the false.
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