Category: D

  • Disclosure

    Definition of Disclosure In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Disclosure : 1. (in contract law) See nondisclosure; uberrimae fidei. 2. (in company law) a. A method of protecting investors that relies on the company disclosing and publishing information, […]

  • Dyvour's Habit

    Scottish Law: Dyvour’s Habit in the Past Scotch law. A habit which debtors, who are set free on a cessio bonorum, are obliged to wear, unless in the summons and process of cessio, it be libelled, sustained and proved that the bankruptcy (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.K. […]

  • Dupex Querela

    English Law and Ecclesiastical Law: Dupex Querela in the Past A complaint in the nature of an appeal from the ordinary to his next immediate superior. 3 Bl. Com 247. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about dupex […]

  • Directive

    Concept of Directive in IP Law [rtbs name=”intellectual-property-law”]Lambert defined directive as follows: EU legislation. An instruction to member states to bring their laws into line  with its provisions by a specified date.

  • Dyvour

    Scottish Law: Dyvour in the Past A bankrupt. [1][rtbs name=”scottish-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about dyvour is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of terms of the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, including dyvour. […]

  • Dyvour

    Scottish Law: Dyvour in the Past A bankrupt. [1][rtbs name=”scottish-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about dyvour is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of terms of the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, including dyvour. […]

  • Drug Dealers

    From Trails and Errors: the Defensive Tactics of Closed-market Drug Dealers Mike Salinas-Edwards, from the The University of Manchester, made a contribution to the 2012 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, in the category “Traditional and New Forms of Crime and Deviance,” […]

  • Drug Dealers

    From Trails and Errors: the Defensive Tactics of Closed-market Drug Dealers Mike Salinas-Edwards, from the The University of Manchester, made a contribution to the 2012 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, in the category “Traditional and New Forms of Crime and Deviance,” […]

  • Death

    Definition of Death The permanent cessation of the vital functions in the bodies of animals and plants, the end of life or act of dying. The word is the English representative of the substantive common to Teutonic languages, as “dead” is of the adjective, and “die” of the verb; the ultimate […]

  • Deforcement

    Scottish Law: Deforcement in the Past The opposition given or resistance made, to messengers or other officers, while they are employed in executing the law. Developments This crime is punished by confiscation of movables, the one half to the king and the other to the creditor at whose suit […]

  • Disclosure In General

    Disclosure in General in relation to the Technology and Construction Court [rtbs name=”technology-and-construction-court”]Civil Procedure Rules 31.5 now provides a menu of different disclosure options, of which standard disclosure is but one. What order is for disclosure is appropriate will […]

  • Disclosure In General

    Disclosure in General in relation to the Technology and Construction Court [rtbs name=”technology-and-construction-court”]Civil Procedure Rules 31.5 now provides a menu of different disclosure options, of which standard disclosure is but one. What order is for disclosure is appropriate will […]

  • Decern

    Concept of Decern Traditional meaning of decern [1] in scots law: To decree. [rtbs name=”scottish-law”] Resources Notes and References Based on A concise law dictionary of words, phrases and maxims, “Decern”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. This term and/or definition […]

  • Declinature

    Concept of Declination, Declinature Traditional meaning of declination, declinature [1] in scots law: A Scotch plea to the jurisdiction. Decline: to object to such plea. [rtbs name=”scottish-law”] Resources Notes and References Based on A concise law dictionary of words, phrases and maxims, […]

  • Day Rule Or Day Writ

    English Law: Day Rule or Day Writ in the Past A rule or order of the court, by which a prisoner on civil process and not committed, is allowd, in term time, to go out of the prison and its rule or bounds; a prisoner is allowd to quit the prison, for more or less…