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Diploma
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DiplomaAn instrument of writing, executed by, a corporation or society, certifying that a certain person therein named is entitled to a certain distinction therein mentioned.
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Instrument
Contracts. The writing which contains some agreement, and is so called because it has been prepared as a memorial of what has taken place or been agreed upon.
Writing
The act of forming by the hand letters or characters of a particular kind on paper or other suitable substance, and artfully putting them together so as to co nvey ideas. It differs from printing, which is the formation of words on paper or other proper substance by means of a stamp. Sometimes by writing ii understood printing, and sometimes printing and writing mixed.
Corporation
A legal entity, allowed by legislation, which permits a group of people, as shareholders (for-profit companies) or members (non-profit companies), to create an organization, which can then focus on pursuing set objectives, and empowered with legal rights which are usually only reserved for individuals, such as to sue and be sued, own property, hire employees or loan and borrow money. Also known as a "company." The primary advantage of for profit corporations is that it provides its shareholders with a right to participate in the profits (by dividends) without any personal liability because the company absorbs the entire liability of the organization.
Society
A society is a number of persons united together by mutual consent, in order to deliberate, determine, and act jointly for some common purpose.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
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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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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
Ecclesiastical law. The district over which a bishop exercises his spiritual functions.
Diploma
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.
Direct
Straight forward; not collateral.
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Instrument
Contracts. The writing which contains some agreement, and is so called because it has been prepared as a memorial of what has taken place or been agreed upon.
Writing
The act of forming by the hand letters or characters of a particular kind on paper or other suitable substance, and artfully putting them together so as to co nvey ideas. It differs from printing, which is the formation of words on paper or other proper substance by means of a stamp. Sometimes by writing ii understood printing, and sometimes printing and writing mixed.
Corporation
A legal entity, allowed by legislation, which permits a group of people, as shareholders (for-profit companies) or members (non-profit companies), to create an organization, which can then focus on pursuing set objectives, and empowered with legal rights which are usually only reserved for individuals, such as to sue and be sued, own property, hire employees or loan and borrow money. Also known as a "company." The primary advantage of for profit corporations is that it provides its shareholders with a right to participate in the profits (by dividends) without any personal liability because the company absorbs the entire liability of the organization.
Society
A society is a number of persons united together by mutual consent, in order to deliberate, determine, and act jointly for some common purpose.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
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
Ecclesiastical law. The district over which a bishop exercises his spiritual functions.
Diploma
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.
Direct
Straight forward; not collateral.
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