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Category: D

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.

DESPOIL

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

DOSSIER

This term is given to the bundle of papers and information on a person or subject that has been collected by an agency such as the CIA or FBI.

DIRECT VERDICT

the situation where a judge directs a jury to what the verdict should be.

DELIBERATE SPEED

This term means that the law or a regulation needs to be maintained or instituted without delay.

DESEGREGATION

the term that removes the barriers that are based on concepts of racism.

DESECRATE

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

DELINQUENT CHILD

This term applies to a child who has committed an unlawful offense that is punishable if it was an adult.

DUAL CITIZENSHIP

the status a person can have when he is claimed by 2 countries to be a citizen and can travel on 2 passports.

DEMEANOR

This term is used to characterise the appearance and the look and the attitude of a witness.

DOMINANT ESTATE

This land that has control over and restricts the construction of buildings within a set distance from the boundaries.

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