DERIVATIVE POWER. An authority by which one person enables another to do an act for him. See Powers.DEROGATION, civil law. The partial abrogation of a...
DEPUTY OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. An officer appointed by the attorney general, who is to hold his office during the pleasure of the latter, and whose d...
DEPOSITION, eccl. law. The act of depriving a clergyman, by a competent tribunal, of his clerical orders, to punish him for some offence, and to preve...
DEPOSITARY, contracts. He with whom a deposit is confided or made.2. It is, the essence of the contract of deposits that it should be gratuitous on th...
DEPARTURE, maritime law. A deviation from the course of the voyage insured. 2. A departure is justifiable or not justifiable it is justifiable ill con...
DEPARTMENT OF WAR, government. The act of August 7, 1789, 1 Story's Laws, 31, creates an executive department, to be denominated the department of...
DENUNCIATION, crim. law. This term is used by the civilians to signify the act by which au individual informs a public officer, whose duty it is to pr...
DEMURRER BOOK Eng. law. When an issue in law is formed, a transcript is made upon paper of all the pleadings that have been filed or delivered between...
DEMISE, contracts. In its most extended signification, it is a conveyance either in fee, for life, or for years. In its more technical meaning, it is ...
DEMAND IN RECONVENTION. In Louisiana, this term is used to signify the demand which the defendant institutes in consequence of that which the plaintif...