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Category: D

DUE COMPENSATION

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

DECREE CONSENT

The term that states that a decision has been agreed to by both of the parties involved and has been made and sanctioned by a court.

DETECTIVE

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

DISFIGUREMENT

This term is given to the result of an accident or an injury that impairs the beauty, symmetry and appearance.

DEMEANOR

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

DEDUCTIBLE EXPENSES

These are the expenditures of a business that are allowed to be deducted from income taxes.

DISORDER POSTTRAUMATIC

the term given to disorder that has arisen from an accident where the symptoms will last for a long period of time.

DISENCUMBRANCE

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

DISTORT

This means to give a false meaning to something and to misrepresent.

DECREE OF DIVORCE

the term that is given to the judgement that is issued by a court and grants a divorce.

DAMAGES UNLIQUIDATED

the compensation that has not been determined by the court as yet even though the plaintiff was successful.

DECREE OF NULLITY

the term used when a decision has been made to annul a marriage. The marriage has been deemed to have not taken place.

DESIGN TO KILL

the phrase that means to premeditate or to think out a plan for a murder.

DEPENDENT BILL

the action of a court of equity that relates to a matter that has already been decided. Also known as bill not original.

DEALING

the term that applies to the buying and selling of something.

DUE REGARD

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

DISCOUNTING COMMERCIAL PAPER

This term applies to deducting interest on the loan before it is given. The loan document is called a commercial paper.

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