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  • DEFOSSION
    The punishment of being burled alive.
  • DEFRAUD
    To practice fraud; to cheat or trick; to deprive a person of property or any interest, estate, or right by fraud, deceit, or artifice. People v. Wiman, 148 N. Y. 29, 42 N. E. 408; Alderman v. People, 4 Mich. 424, 69 Am. Dec. 321; U. S. v. Cur-ley (C. More...
  • 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
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