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  • DIES
    Lat A day; days. Days for appearance in court. revisions or maintenance for a day. The king's rents were anciently reserved by so many days' provisions. Spelman; Cowell; Blount -Dies a quo. (The day from which.) In the civil law. The day from which a transaction begins; the commencement of More...
  • DIET
    A general legislative assembly is sometimes so called on the continent of Europe. In Scotch practice. The sitting of a court. An appearance day. A day fixed for the trial of a criminal cause. A criminal cause as prepared for trial.
  • DIETA
    A day's journey; a day's work; a day's expenses.
  • DIETS OF COMPEARANCE
    In Scotch law. The days within which parties in civil and criminal prosecutions are cited to appear. Bell.
  • DIETU ET MON DROIT
    Fr. God and my right. The motto of the royal arms of England, first assumed by Richard I.
  • DIETU SON ACTE
    L. Fr. In old law. God his act; God's act An event beyond human foresight or control. Termes de la Ley.
  • DIFFACERE
    To destroy; to disfigure or deface.
  • DIFFERENCE
    In an agreement for submission to arbitration, "difference" means disagreement or dispute Fravert v. Fesler, 11 Colo. App. 387, 53 Pac. 288; Pioneer Mfg. Co. v. Phoenix Assur. Co., 106 N. C. 28, 10 S. E. 1057. Difficile est nt nnns homo vicem duor" am snstineat. 4 Coke, 118. It More...
  • DIFFICULT
    For the meaning of the phrase "difficult and extraordinary case," as used in New York statutes and practice, see Standard Trust Co. v. New York, etc., R. Co., 178 N. Y. 407, 70 N. E. 925; Fox v. Gould. 5 How. Prac. More...
  • DIFFORCIARE
    In old English law. To deny, or keep from one Difforciare rectum, to deny justice to any one, after having been required to do it.
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