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  • DEPENDENT
    Deriving existence, support, or direction from another; conditioned, in respect to force or obligation, upon an extraneous act or fact. -Dependent contract. One which depends or is conditional upon another. One which it is not the duty of the contractor to perform until some obligation contained in the same agreement More...
  • DEPENDING
    In practice. Pending or undetermined; in progress. See 5 Coke, 47.
  • DEPESAS
    In Spanish-American law. Spaces of ground in towns reserved for commons or public pasturage. 12 Pet. 443, note, 9 L. Ed. 115a
  • DEPONE
    In Scotch practice. To depose ; to make oath in writing.
  • DEPONENT
    In practice. One who deposes (that is, testifies or makes oath in writing) to the. truth of certain facts; one who gives under oath testimony which is reduced to writing; one who makes oath to a written statement. The party making an affidavit is generally so called. The word "depone," More...
  • DEPONER
    In old Scotch practice* A deponent. 3 How. State Tr. 695.
  • DEPOPULATIO AGRORUM
    In old English law. The crime of destroying, ravaging, or laying waste a country. 2 Hale P. C. 333 ; 4 Bl. Comm. 373.
  • DEPOPULATION
    In old English law. A species of waste by which the population of the kingdom was diminished. Depopulation of houses was a public offense. 12 Coke, 80, ML
  • DEPORTATIO
    Lat. In the civil law. A kind of banishment, where a condemned person was sent or carried away to some foreign country, usually to an island, (in insu-lam deportatur,) and thus taken out of the number of Roman citizens.
  • DEPORTATION
    Banishment to a foreign country, attended with confiscation of property and deprivation of civil rights. A punishment derived from the deportatio (q. v.) of the Roman law, and still In use in France. In Roman law. A perpetual banishment, depriving the banished of his rights as a citizen; It differed More...
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