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  • DWELLING-PLACE
    This term is not synonymous with a "place of pauper settlement" Lisbon v. Lyman, 49 N. H. 553. Dwelling-place, or home, means some permanent abode or residence, with Intention to remain; and is not synonymous with "domicile," as used in international law, but has a more limited and restricted meaning. More...
  • DYING DECLARATION
    Sea DECLARATION.
  • DYING WITHOUT ISSUE
    At common law this phrase imports an indefinite failure of issue, and not a dying without issue surviving at the time of the death of the first taker. But this rule has been changed in some of the states, by statute or decisions, and in England by St 7 Wm. More...
  • DYKE-REED, OR DYKE-REEVE
    An officer who has the care and oversight of the dykes and drains in fenny counties.
  • DYSNOMY
    Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.
  • DYSPAREUNIA
    In medical jurisprudence. Incapacity of a woman to sustain tbe act of sexual intercourse except with great difficulty and pain.
  • DYSPESIA
    A state of the stomach in which its functions are disturbed, without the presence of other diseases, or when, if other diseases are present, they are of minor importance. Dungl. Med. Diet
  • DYVOUR
    In Scotch law. A bankrupt.
  • E.
    As an abbreviation, this letter may stand for "Exchequer," "English," "Edward/' "Equity," "East," "Eastern," "Easter," or "Ecclesiastical."
  • E.
    A Latin preposition, meaning from, oat of, after, or according. It occurs in many Latin phrases; but (in this form) only before a consonant. When the initial of the following word is a vowel, ex is used. -E contra From the opposite; on the contrary.-E converso. Conversely. On the other More...
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