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  • DI COLONNA
    In maritime law. The contract which takes place between the owner of a ship, the captain, and the mariners, who agree that the voyage shall be for the benefit of all. The term is used in the Italian law. Emerig. Mar. Loans, ? 5.
  • DI. ET FI
    L. Lat In old writs. An abbreviation of dilecto et fideli, (to his beloved and faithful.)
  • DIACONATE
    The office of a deacon.
  • DIACONTUS
    A deacon.
  • DIAGNOSIS
    A medical term, meaning the discovery of the source of a patient's illness or the determination of the nature of his disease from a study of its symptoms. Said to be little more than a guess enlightened b$ experience. Swan v. Railroad Co., 79 Hun, 612, 29 N. Y. Supp. More...
  • DIALECTICS
    That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning.
  • DIALLAGE
    A rhetorical figure in which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point Enc. Lond.
  • DIALOGUS DE SCACCARIO.
    Dialogue of or about the exchequer. An ancient treatise on the court of exchequer, attributed by some to Gervase of Tilbury, by others to Richard Fits Nigel, bishop of London in the reign of Richard I. It is quoted, by Lord Coke under the name of Ockham. Crabb, Eng. Law, More...
  • DIANATIC
    A logical reasoning in a pro* gressive manner, proceeding from one subject to another. Enc. Lond.
  • DIARIUM
    Daily food, or as much as will suffice for the day. Du Cange.
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