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Category: D

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.

DULY SWORN

This means to have sworn under oath by a person who administers oaths.

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.

DISENCUMBRANCE

the term that applies to releasing from a burden like a mortgage.

DESPOIL

the term that means to take property away illegally from its rightful owner.

DEADLOCKED JURY

the term that is given to a jury that is unabke to come to a decision.

DELECTUS PERSONAE

a Latin phrase where the right of one partner is to approve or disapprove of a new partner.

DEDICATION BY DEED

This term applies to land that has been put aside for a public use by a deed which states exactly what the property will be used for.

DISORDER MENTAL

This term applies to any mental disease caused by an emotional illness or is organic in origin.

DELETION

This word means to cross out or remove words from a document.

DISINTERMENT

the term used when a body is removed from a grave by order from a court.

DESECRATE

a term used to mean to treat sacrilegiously or to violate the sanctity of a sacred thing.

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