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DIGITAL ACTOR

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DIGITAL MICROWAVE

A digital radio transmission whose bandwidth is 33-38 GHz and can go up to 7 miles.

DIRTY PRICE

The price of a BOND inclusive of ACCRUED INTEREST. Most SECONDARY MARKET bond transactions are based on dirty prices. See also CLEAN PRICE, INVOICE PRICE.

DOUBLE BOTTOM

A TECHNICAL ANALYSIS charting formation that depicts two SUPPORT LEVELS followed by a BREAKOUT. The multiple rebounds are indicative of support and possible strength on the upside. Also known as a W

DUAL BOARD SYSTEM

A corporate system where two separate BOARDS OF DIRECTORS are used to monitor and guide a company. Under a typical dual structure the SUPERVISORY BOARD is responsible for strategy and oversight/supervision of

DEFAMATION

The taking from one’s reputation. The offense of injuring a person’s character, fame, or reputation by false and malicious statements. The term seems to be comprehensive of both libel and slander. Printing

DEFEND

To prohibit or forbid. To deny. To contest and endeavor to defeat a claimor demand made against one in a court of justice. Boehmer v. Irrigation I)ist., 117 Cal.19, 48 Pac. 908.

DEFENSOR CIVITATIS

Defender or protector of a city or municipality. An oflicer under theRoman empire, whose duty it was to protect the people against the injustice of themagistrates. the insolence of the subaltern officers,

DEFORCEMENT

Deforcement Is where a man wrongfully holds lands to whichanother person is entitled. It therefore includes disseisin, abatement, discontinuance,and intrusion. Co. Litt. 2776, 3316; Foxworth v. White, 5 Strob. (S. C.) 115;

DEI GRATIA

Lat. By the grace of God. A phrase used in the formal title of a king orqueen, importing a claim of sovereignty by the favor or commission of God. In ancienttimes it

DELETE

In Scotch law. To erase; to strike out.

DEMESNE AS OF FEE

A man is said to be seised in his demesne as of fee of a corporeal inheritance, because he has a property,dominicum or demesne, in the thing itself. But when he has

DEMONSTRATIO

Lat. Description; addition; denomination. Occurring often in the phrase, “Falsa demonstratio non nocct,” (a false description does not harm.)

DENIER A DIEU

In French law. Earnest money; a sum of money given in token ofthe completion of a bargain. The phrase is a translation of the Latin Denarius Dei, (q. v.)

DEPARTURE

In maritime law. A deviation from the course prescribed in the policy of insurance.In pleading. The statement of matter in a replication, rejoinder, or subsequentpleading, as a cause of action or defense,

DEPOSITATION

In Scotch law. Deposit or depositum, the species of bailment so called. Bell.

DERELICTION

The gaining of land from the water, in consequence of the seashrinking back below the usual water mark; the opposite of alluvion, (q. v.) Dyer, 3206;2 Bl. Comm. 262; 1 Steph. Comm.

DESIGN

In the law of evidence. Purpose or intention, combined with plan, or implyinga plan in the mind. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 331; State v. Grant, 80 Iowa, 210, 53 N. W.120; Ernest v.

DESPOTISM

That abuse of government where the sovereign power is not divided, hutunited in the hands of a single man, whatever may be his official title. It is not,properly, a form of government.

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