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  • DEI GRATIA
    Lat. By the grace of God. A phrase used in the formal title of a king or queen, importing a claim of sovereignty by the favor or commission of God. In ancient times it was incorporated in the titles of inferior officers, (especially ecclesiastical,) but in later use was reserved More...
  • DEI JUDICIUM
    The Judgment of God. The old Saxon trial by ordeal, so called because it was thought to be an appeal to God for the justice of a cause, and it was believed that the decision was according to the will and pleasure of Divine Providence. Wharton.
  • DEJACION
    In Spanish law. Surrender; release; abandonment; e.g., the act of an insolvent in surrendering his property for the benefit of his creditors, of an heir in renouncing the succession, the abandonment of insured property to the underwriters.
  • DEJERATION
    A taking of a solemn oath.
  • DEL BIEN ESTRE
    L. Fr. In old English practice. Of well being; of form. The same as de bene esse. Britt. c. 89.
  • DEL CREDERE
    In mercantile law. A phrase borrowed from the Italians, equivalent to our word "guaranty" or "warranty," or the Scotch term "warrandice;" an agreement by which a factor, when he sells goods on credit, for an additional commission, (called a "del credere commission,") guaranties the solvency of the purchaser and his More...
  • DELAISSEMENT
    In French marine law. Abandonment. Emerig. Tr. dee Ass. ch. 17.
  • DELATE
    In Scotch law. To accuse. Delated, accused. Delatit off arte and parte, accused of being accessary to. 3 How. St. Tr. 425, 440.
  • DELATIO
    In the civil law. An accusation or information.
  • DELATOR
    An accuser; an informer; a sycophant
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