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  • DEFRAUDACION
    In Spanish law. The crime committed by a person who fraudulently avoids the payment of some public tax.
  • DEFRAUDATION
    Privation by fraud.
  • DEFUNCT
    Deceased; a deceased person. A common term in Scotch law.
  • DEFUNCTUS
    Lat Dead. "Defunctus sine prole," dead without (leaving) issue.
  • DEGASTER
    L. Fr. To waste.
  • DEGRADATION
    A deprivation of dignity; dismission from office. An ecclesiastical censure, whereby a clergyman is divested of his holy orders. There are two sorts by the canon law,-one summary, by word only; the other solemn, by stripping the party degraded of those ornaments and rights which are the ensigns of his More...
  • DEGRADATIONS
    A term for waste in the French law.
  • DEGRADING
    Reviling; holding one np to public obloquy; lowering a person in the estimation of the public
  • DEGREE
    In the law of descent and family relations. A step or grade, i. e., the distance, or number of removes, which separates two persons who are related by consanguinity. Thus we speak of cousins in the "second degree." In criminal law. The term "degree" denotes a division or classification of More...
  • DEHORS
    L. Fr. Out of; without; beyond ; foreign to; unconnected with. Dehors the record; foreign to the record. 3 BL Comm. 887.
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