Law Dictionary

For purposes of this section, the term “depreciable property” means any property of a character subject to the allowance for depreciation, but only if a basis reduction under subse

the expense occasioned by the using up of physical property employed as fixed capital; current maintenance, as the expense occasioned in keeping the physical property in the condit

The term “depreciation adjustments” means, in respect of any property, all adjustments attributable to periods after December 31, 1963, reflected in the adjusted basis of such prop

The term “depreciation allowances” means the depreciation deductions allowable under section 167 to the possession corporation.

The term “depreciation deductions” means any deductions for depreciation or amortization or any other deduction allowable under any provision of this chapter which treats an otherw

the act of plundering; a robbing; a pillaging

The term “depressant or stimulant substance” means— (A) a drug which contains any quantity of barbituric acid or any of the salts of barbituric acid; or (B) a drug which contains a

In this section, the term “depressed communities” means rural and urban communities that are relatively depressed, in terms of age of housing, extent of poverty, growth of per capi

In ecclesiastical law. A censure by which a clergyman is deprived of his parsonage, vicarage, or other ecclesiastical promotion or dignity. See Ayliffe, Par. 206; 1 Bl. Comm. 393.

Referring to property taken Mayor of Philadelphia, 21 Pa. 167, 59 Am. Dec. 759. The constitution contains no definition of this word "deprive" as used in the Fourteenth Amendment.

A writ proceeding out of chancery and ordering the judges of any court to proceed to judgment 3 Bla. Com. 109. DE PROPRIETATE PROBANDA (Lat for proving property). A writ which issu

Breve. L. Lat. Writ for proceeding in an assise. A writ by which the justices of assise were commanded to proceed in an assise, where the proceedings had been stayed. Reg. Orig. 22

A writ to compel the sheriff to inquire into the title of distrained goods.

Lat. Of or concerning protections. The title of a statute passed in the d3d year of Edward I., to prevent some of the evil consequences attending the privileges given by writs of p

Breve. Lat. Writ of protection. Reg, Orig. 25, 26. See Protection.

The statute 17 Edw. I., St. 1, c. 9, defining the prerogatives of the crown on certain subjects, but especially directing that the king shall have ward of the lands of idiots, taki

Of the present; in the present tense. See Per Verba de Præsenti.

Since.

Lat. In old English law. To appoint, ^x^ or designate. Si lociu fuerit qui deputatus sit ad aliquem usum; if it be a place which is designated for any use. Bract, fol. 210 b. Id. f

To appoint or designate for a particular purpose. Now applied to persons only, but anciently to places, v. Deputare; Deputy.

To appoint a deputy; to appoint or commission one to act as deputy to an officer. In a general sense, the term is descriptive of empowering one person to act for another in any cap

One authorized by an officer to exercise the office or right which the officer possesses, for and in place of the latter. A deputy differs from an assignee in that an assignee has

The terms “Commissioner” and “Deputy Commissioner” mean the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization and a Deputy Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, respectively

The deputy of a lord lieutenant of a county in England.

The term “deputy program manager” means the person who has authority to act on behalf of the program manager in the absence of the program manager.

the term “Deputy Secretary” means the Deputy Secretary of Education;

See Deputy. -High sheriff. One holding the office of sheriff, as distinguished from his deputies or assistants or under sheriffs.

A steward of a manor may depute or authorize another to hold a court; and the acts done in a court so holden will be as legal as if the court had been holden by the chief steward i

De kes en sea. L. Fr. From which time until now. Kelham.

A writ to secure for a widow her quarantine. See 12 Or. 203, 6 Pac. 682.

From which time until now.

Of which.

An ancient writ of entry.

In equity. De jure stricto, nihil possum vendicare, de œquitate tamen, nullo modo hoc obtinet; In strict law, I can claim nothing, but in equity this by no means obtains. Fleta, 11

or DE QUIBUS. Of which. Formal words in the simple writ of entry, from which it was called a writ of entry "in the quo," or "in the quibus." 3 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 33. DE QUOTA L

Of which. Formal words in the simple writ of entry, from which it was called a writ of entry "in the quo," or "in the quibus." 3 Reeve, Eng. Law, 33.

From a certain person unknown.

An agreement for a contingent fee.

Of which.

I. I. In old English law. To be discharged from giving gage or pledge.

DEREYN, or DEREINE (Law Lat. dera Uonare, dirationare, or disrationare; Law Fr. dereiner, derener, disreigner, disrener, contra for deraisner or deraisoner). In old English law. To

A writ for a guardian for the abduction of his ward.

Of the ravishment of maids. The name of an appeal formerly in use in England in cases of rape. Bracton, fol. 147; 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 38. DE RATIONABl Ll PARTE BONORUM (Lat. o

Of the ravishment of maids. The name of an appeal formerly in use in England in cases of rape. Bract fol. 147; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 38.

Writ for fixing reasonable boundaries. A writ which lay to settle the boundaries between the lands of persons in different towns, where one complained of encroachment. Reg. Orig. 1

A writ of right for one against his cotenant who had assumed exclusive possession.

A writ for the recovery of that part of a decedent’s goods which he had alienated against the rights of his wife and children.

A writ for the establishment of boundaries.

I. I. To deraign. v. Deraign; Dirationare.

derechief, dericliefs, I, fr. Moreover; again.

In English criminal law. Theact of drawinga eondemned criminal on « hurdle trom the place of prison to the place of execution. 4 Bi. Comin. 377. Where a man was hanged on an appeal

Of things. The title of the third part of the Digests or Pandects, comprising the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth bdo

Of doubtful things or matters. Dig. 34. 6. DE RECORDO ET PROCESSU MITTENdis. Writ to send the record and process

Lat. Of harbouring. Bract, fol. 152 b. A term of old criminal law. See Receptamentum. DE RECORDO ET PROCESSU MIT-

derchef,/r. Determine. To end, tingency; to expire limitation.

In Spanish law. Law or right. White, New Recop. bk. 4, tit. 4. Derecho comun, common law. The civil law is so called. Id. bk. 2, tit. 13, c. 1, § 5. A right. Dereehos, rights.

A writ to send the record and process to a higher court.

Writ of right. Reg. Orig. 1, 2; Bracton, fol. 327b. DE RECTO DE ADVOCATIONE (Lat. of right of advowson; called, also, de droit de advocatione). A writ which lay to restore the righ

A writ of right of advowson.

A writ of right of dower.

To fail of right.

Writ of right, of reasonable part. A writ which lay between privies in blood, as between brothers in gavelkind or between sisters or other coparceners for lands in fee-simple, wher

Writ of right patent. Reg. Orig. 1.

Writ of redlsseisin. A writ which lay where a man recovered, by assize of novel disseisin, land, rent, or common, and the like, and was put in possession thereof by verdict, and af

Writ of redisseisin. A writ which lay where a man recovered by assise of novel disseisin land, rent or common, and the like, and was put in possession thereof by verdict, and after

Same as Deraign.

To constitute a case of derelict, the abandonment must have been final, without hope of recovery, or intention to return. If the crew have left the ship temporarily, with intention

Neglect; abandonment.

2. Derelict; wilfully abandoned or thrown away.

dereigner, dereyner, deraigner, dereiuer, derainer, I fr. To prove; to clear one's self; to deraign.

A writ to compel a cotenant to contribute toward repairs.

A writ of replevin.

Writ of rescue. A writ which lay where cattle distrained, or persons arrested, were rescued from those taking them. Reg. Orig! 117, 118; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 101 (C), (G). DE RETORNO

To have the goods returned.

For having a return ; to have a return. A term applied to the judgment for the defendant in an action of replevin, awarding him a return of the goods replevied; and to the writ or

Same as Deraign.

De ea re ita consuere, concerning this matter have decreed. A phrase used in the record of decrees of the Roman senate.

Not guilty.

By strict law.

derictum, directum, drictnm, I. I. Right Derivativa potestas non potest esse major primitiva, I. A derivative power cannot be greater than the primitive or original.

Berisium, Directum, Drictum, L. Lat. [Fr. droit, droict.] Right. Spelman. See Droit, Directum, Right. Derivativa potestas non potest esse major primitiva. A derivative power cannot

Delegated authority cannot exceed the original.

The term “derivative” means any contract (including any option, forward contract, futures contract, short position, swap, or similar contract) the value of which, or any payment or

A derivative action is a suit by a shareholder to enforce a corporate cause of action. The corporation is a necessary party to the suit. And the relief which is granted is a judgme

The children of persons who have been duly naturalized under any law of the United States ... being under the age of twenty-one years at the time of the naturalization of their par

One which only serves to enlarge, confirm, alter, restrain, restore or transfer the interest granted by a precedent conveyance. See 2 Bl. Comm. 324.

Conveyances which presuppose some other conveyance precedent, and only serve to enlarge, confirm, alter, restiain. restore, or transfer the interest granted by such original convey

jurisdiction of the federal court on removal is, in a limited sense, a derivative jurisdiction. Where the state court lacks jurisdiction of the subject matter or of the parties, th

A conveyance which presupposes some conveyance precedent, and serves only to enlarge, confirm, alter, restrain, restore or transfer the interest thereby granted.

The kind of possession of one who is in the lawful occupation or custody of the property, but not under a claim of title of his own, but under a right derived from another, as, tor

The term “derivatives clearing organization” means a clearinghouse, clearing association, clearing corporation, or similar entity, facility, system, or organization that, with resp

the term “derivative transaction” includes any transaction that is a contract, agreement, swap, warrant, note, or option that is based, in whole or in part, on the value of, any in

Law Lat. (from Fr. desrob-

(Lat. from de, from, and rogare, to pass a law). In the civil and old English law. To derogate or diminish; to take from or impair the authority, validity or effect of a law or con

The partial abrogation of a law. To derogate from a law is to enact something which impairs its utility and force; to abrogate a law is to abolish it entirely. See "Abrogation,"

In a will, this is a sentence or secret character inserted by the testator, of which he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition that no will he may make thereafter shou

CUM PARS DETRAhltur; abrogatur legi, cum prorsus tollltur. To derogate from a law is to take away part of it; to abrogate a law is to abolish it entirely. Dig. 50. 16. 102. See 1 B

A law is derogated when part of it is taken away, a law is abrogated when it is wholly abolished.

Lat In the civil law. A house, dwelling, place of habitation, whether In the city or ceuntry. Dig. 30, 41, 5. In the country everything upon the surface of the sell passed under th

In Spanish law. An irregular action committed with violence against law, custom, or reason.