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DECOUPLE

When market prices for shares and bonds go in opposite trends. If low confidence happens than shares are dumped and bonds are better. It is the same for deflation to save income.

DEFORMATION

Chaninging the body caused by stress. The stress in the limits of a material can offset this.

DEFEASIBLE

Subject .to be defeated, annulled, revoked, or undone upon the happeningof a future event or the performance of a condition subsequent, or by a conditionallimitation. Usually spoken of estates and interests in

DEFICIENCY BILL

In parliamentary practice, an appropriation bill covering items of expenseomitted from the general appropriation bill or bills, or for which insufficientappropriations were made. If intended to cover a variety of such items,

DEFRAUD

To practice fraud; to cheat or trick; to deprive a person of property orany interest, estate, or right by fraud, deceit, or artifice. People v. Wiman, 148 N. Y. 29,42 N. E.

DELATE

In Scotch law. To accuse. Delated, accused. Dclatit off arte and parte, accused of being accessary to. 3 How. St Tr. 425, 440.

DEM

An abbreviation for “demise;” e. g

DEMURRANT

One who demurs; the party who, in pleading, interposes a demurrer.

DENMAN’S (MR) ACT

An English statute, for the amendment of procedure incriminal trials, (28 & 29 Vict. c. 18,) allowing counsel to sum up the evidence in criminalas in civil trials, provided the prisoner be

DEPESAS

In Spanish-American law. Spaces of ground In towns reserved for commonsor public pasturage. 12 Pet 443, note, 9 L. Ed. 1150.

DEPOSITUM

Lat. In the civil law. One of the forms of the contract of bailment,being a naked bailment of goods to be kept for the use of the bailor without reward.Foster v. Essex

DESAMORTIZACION

In Mexican law. The dcsamortizacion of property is to take itout of mortmain, (dead hands;) that is, to unloose It from the grasp, as it were, ofecclesiastical or civil corporations. The term

DESPACHEURS

In maritime law. Persons appointed to settle cases of average.

DESTITUTE

A “destitute person” is one who has no money or other property availablefor Ills maintenance or support. Nor- ridgewock v. Solon, 49 Me. 385; Woods v.Perkins, 43 La. Ann. 347, 9 South.

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