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Diplomatics






Diplomatics

The art of judging of ancient charters, public documents or diplomas, and discriminating the true from the false.

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Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.

Documents
Evidence. The deeds, agreements, title papers, letters, receipts, and other written instruments used to prove a fact.

False
Not true; as, false pretences; unjust, unlawful, as, false imprisonment. This his word, is frequently used in composition.



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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.



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Diocese
Ecclesiastical law. The district over which a bishop exercises his spiritual functions.

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

Direct
Straight forward; not collateral.

Direct action
The right of a third party who has a claim in responsibility against an insured to proceed directly by suit against the insurer, usually because the insured has been declared bankrupt or has become insolvent. In most jurisdictions, direct action is permitted only by statute.

Direct capitalization
The capitalization method used to convert an estimate of a single year's income expectancy or any annual average of several years' income expectancies into an indication of value in one step, either by dividing the income estimated by an appropriate rate or by multiplying the income estimate by an appropriate factor.

Direct evidence
That which applies immediately to the fadum probandum, without any intervening process.

Direct examination
The initial questioning of a witness called to the stand by an attorney.

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