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DEMENTIA PRAECOX

This term is applied to a form of mental illness seen in young people that have a split personality.

DETECTIVE

the name given to a police officer who will detect and apprehend those people who have committed a crime.

DUE REGARD

This means to give a fair consideration to and give sufficient attention to all of the facts.

DELIBERATIONS OF A JURY

where the jury sorts through all of the evidence and the facts of a case before they make a decision.

DIVULGE

This means to make known or to reveal something.

DE FACTO GOVERNMENT

This term is applied to a government that has not been elected to the laws of the country.

DURESS OF PROPERTY

the way of getting property that involves pressuring and threatening a person and the property.

DISMISSAL OF APPEAL

the court of appeals refusal to hear and try a case already decided in a lower court.

DAILY WAGES

the term used in compensation cases for the money that is awarded as his daily wages.

DISPENSING POWER

an agency’s authority that excuses a person from doing a duty and asks them to refrain from an act or from certain conduct.

DOUBLE INDEMNITY

This means that twice the money will be awarded from a policy due to certain clauses in the policy.

DISBURSE

a term that means to pay out or to expend.

DUE COMPENSATION

This term applies to the recompense that a person is entitled to receive.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

the term that is given to a second trial for the same offense. See former jeopardy; in jeopardy; legal jeopardy.

DEATH CERTIFICATE

the term that is given to the official document that attests to a personbeing died.

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