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Dna
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DnaAbbreviation for deoxyribonucleic acid. A chromosome molecule which carries genetic coding unique to each person with the only exception of identical twins (that is why it is also called "DNA fingerprinting"). Through laboratory process, DNA can be extracted from body tissue such a strand of hair, semen, blood and matched against DNA discovered at a crime scene or on a victim to scientifically implicate an accused. Can also be used to match DNA between parents in a paternity suit.
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Abbreviation
Practice. The omission of some words or letters in writing
Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Exception
1) English Eq. practice. Re-interrogation. 2) Legislation, construction. Exceptions are rules which limit the extent of other more general rules, and render that just and proper, which would be, on account of its generality, unjust and improper.
Process
1) Practice. So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer. 2) Rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.
Body
A person.
Blood
Kindred. 1) This word, in the law sense, is used to signify relationship, stock, or family; as, of the blood of the ancestor. 2) Brothers and sisters are said to be of the whole blood, if they have the same father and mother of the half blood, if they have only one parent in common.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Accused
One who is charged with a crime or misdemeanor.
Parents
The lawful father and mother of the party spoken of.
Paternity
The state or condition of a father.
Suit
An action. The word suit in the 25th section of the judiciary act of 1789, applies to any proceeding in a court of justice, in which the plaintiff pursues, in such court, the remedy which the law affords him. An application for a prohibition is therefore a suit.
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Divided damages
The former method of apportioning damages from a ship collision under the general maritime law of civil law countries, as well as under English and American admiralty law, was that such damages were equally divided when ships involved in the collision were at fault, regardless of that fault. Divided damages differed from the traditional contributory negligence (supra) rule of apportionment of damages, which precluded a plaintiff from recovering any damages from a negligent defendant if the plaintiff himself was at fault in even the slightest degree.
Dividend
A portion of the principal, or profits, divided among several owners of a thing.
Divine law or revealed law
The law of nature imparted by God Himself.
Divisible
The susceptibility of being divided.
Division
English law. A particular and ascertained part of a county.
Dna
Dock receipt
A receipt issued by the carrier attesting to the delivery of the goods to the dock prior to their loading aboard the ship.
Docket
Practice. A formal record of judicial proceedings.
Docket control
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Servicesmechanism for tracking the case status of potentially removable aliens.
Docket number
The number assigned by a court to a civil or criminal case. it is used to identify all court actions and it appears on all documents filed with the court in a specific case.
Doctors commons
A building in London used for a college of civilians. Here the judge of the court of arches, the judge of the admiralty, and the judge of the court of Canterbury, with other eminent civilians, reside.
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Abbreviation
Practice. The omission of some words or letters in writing
Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Exception
1) English Eq. practice. Re-interrogation. 2) Legislation, construction. Exceptions are rules which limit the extent of other more general rules, and render that just and proper, which would be, on account of its generality, unjust and improper.
Process
1) Practice. So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer. 2) Rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.
Body
A person.
Blood
Kindred. 1) This word, in the law sense, is used to signify relationship, stock, or family; as, of the blood of the ancestor. 2) Brothers and sisters are said to be of the whole blood, if they have the same father and mother of the half blood, if they have only one parent in common.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Accused
One who is charged with a crime or misdemeanor.
Parents
The lawful father and mother of the party spoken of.
Paternity
The state or condition of a father.
Suit
An action. The word suit in the 25th section of the judiciary act of 1789, applies to any proceeding in a court of justice, in which the plaintiff pursues, in such court, the remedy which the law affords him. An application for a prohibition is therefore a suit.
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Divided damages
The former method of apportioning damages from a ship collision under the general maritime law of civil law countries, as well as under English and American admiralty law, was that such damages were equally divided when ships involved in the collision were at fault, regardless of that fault. Divided damages differed from the traditional contributory negligence (supra) rule of apportionment of damages, which precluded a plaintiff from recovering any damages from a negligent defendant if the plaintiff himself was at fault in even the slightest degree.
Dividend
A portion of the principal, or profits, divided among several owners of a thing.
Divine law or revealed law
The law of nature imparted by God Himself.
Divisible
The susceptibility of being divided.
Division
English law. A particular and ascertained part of a county.
Dna
Dock receipt
A receipt issued by the carrier attesting to the delivery of the goods to the dock prior to their loading aboard the ship.
Docket
Practice. A formal record of judicial proceedings.
Docket control
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Servicesmechanism for tracking the case status of potentially removable aliens.
Docket number
The number assigned by a court to a civil or criminal case. it is used to identify all court actions and it appears on all documents filed with the court in a specific case.
Doctors commons
A building in London used for a college of civilians. Here the judge of the court of arches, the judge of the admiralty, and the judge of the court of Canterbury, with other eminent civilians, reside.
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