REASONABLE DILIGENCE
A fair, proper, and due degree of care and activity, measured with reference to the particular circumstances; such diligence, care, or attention as might be expected from a man of ordinary prudence
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A fair, proper, and due degree of care and activity, measured with reference to the particular circumstances; such diligence, care, or attention as might be expected from a man of ordinary prudence
The measure of diligence and skill exercised by a good business manin his particular specialty, which must be commensurate with the duty to be performedand the individual circumstances of the case; not
(Fr. De lege efectus, Lat.) Outlawed.
In old English law. Pottage formerly made for the king’s table on thecoronation day. There was a tenure in serjeantry, by which lands were held of the kingby the service of finding
Half; a half; the half.
The moiety or half of a thing
In the civil law. Diminution; a taking away; loss or deprivation.Diminutio capitis, loss of status or condition. See CAPITIS DIMINUTIO.
Incompleteness. A word signifying that the record sent up from anInferior to a superior court for review is incomplete, or not fully certified. In such casethe party may suggest a “diminution of
In old conveyancing. [He] has demised. See DIMISI.
In the civil law. Letters dimissory or dismissory. commonlycalled “apostles,” (qua; viilgo apovtoli dicuntur.) Dig. 50, 10, 100. See ArosTOLi, APOSTI.ES.
Where a candidate for holy orders has a title of ordination inone diocese in England, and is to be ordained in another, the bishop of the formerdiocese gives letters dimissory to the
A government of two persons.
In Spanish law. Money. Dincro contado, money counted. White, NewRecop. b. 2. tit. 13, c. 1,
Belonging to a diocese; a bishop, as he stands related to his own clergy or flock.
In English law. The consistorial courts of each diocese, exercisinggeneral jurisdiction of all matters arising locally within their respective limits, withthe exception of places subject to peculiar Jurisdiction; deciding all matters of
Diptychs; tablets of wood, metal, or other substance, used among theRomans for the purpose of writing, and folded like a book of two leaves. The diptychsof antiquity were especially employed for public
The territorial extent of a bishop’s jurisdiction. The circuit of everybishop’s jurisdiction. Co. Litt 94; 1 Bl. Comm. 111.
The district over which a bishop exercised his spiritual functions.
In mining law. The line of declination of strata; the angle which measures thedeviation of a mineralized vein or lode from the vertical plane; the slope or slant of avein, away from
In the civil law. A royal charter; letters patent granted by a prince orsovereign. Calvin.An instrument given by colleges and societies on the conferring of any degrees.State v. Gregory, 83 Mo. 130,