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“developer” means any person who, directly or indirectly, sells or leases, or offers to sell or lease, or advertises for sale or lease any lots in a subdivision; / “developer” mean

The term "developing arts organization" means a local arts organization of high artistic promise which—

The term “developing country” means a country that has a shortage of foreign exchange earnings and has difficulty meeting all of its food needs through commercial channels. / The t

The term "developing country with a tropical forest or coral reef" means— (A) (i) a country that has a per capita income of $725 or less in 1994 United States dollars (co

The term “developing new underground coal mine” includes expansion of any existing underground coal mine in a manner designed to increase the rate of production of such mine, and t

The term “developing or transitional country” means a country eligible to receive development assistance under this part.

The term “development” means— (A) research leading to the identification of products or technologies intended for use as agricultural countermeasures to protect animal health; (B)

“development activities” means any activity, including the discharge of dredged or fill material, which results directly in a more than de minimus 1 change in the hydrologic regime

The term "developmental capital" means capital in the form of equity capital investments in rural business investment companies with an objective of fostering economic de

The term “developmental disability” means a severe, chronic disability of an individual that— (i) is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of mental and ph

The term “developmentally appropriate curriculum” means a curriculum that is appropriate for the child's age and all areas of the individual child's development, including educatio

The term “developmental test and evaluation” means— (A) the testing of a capability or asset and the subsystems of the capability or asset to determine whether they meet all contra

The term “developmental venture capital” means capital in the form of equity capital investments in businesses made with a primary objective of fostering economic development in lo

In this subchapter, the term “development area” means the area to be developed, maintained, and used in accordance with this subchapter and the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corp

The term “development center” means— (A) the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development; (B) the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development or its designee; (C) the S

the term “development companies” means enterprises incorporated under State law with the authority to promote and assist the growth and development of small-business concerns in th

the term “development cost” means the total of all costs, including construction of facilities and civil servant costs, from the period beginning with the approval to proceed to im

In this paragraph, the term "development costs" means costs of— (i) construction, including labor and materials; (ii) project applications; and (iii) other development ac

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “development right” means any right to use the land subject to the qualified conservation easement in which such right is retained for any

The term “development services” means activities that promote community development and are integral to lending or investment activities, including— (A) business planning; (B) fina

The term “development unit” shall mean a part of a project which, for purposes of orderly engineering or reclamation development, is designated as a development unit by order of th

devenir, deveigner, I fr. To come; to become; to fall to. Devenus: come.

A writ directing the escheator to ascertain whether land held by a tenant in capite should escheat upon his death.

I. I. I become. De Tenlo Tester homo: I become your man, — words in the old form of doing homaga

I become your man.

He comes; he comes into.

A writ to examine into a woman’s pregnancy.

Word for word. Bracton, fol. 138b. Literally, from word to

Of the signification of words. An important title of the Digests or Pandects (Dig. 50. 16), consisting entirely of definitions of words and phrases used in the Roman law, compiled

Fr. Against. Devers le chiefe seigniour. Britt. c. 74. Towards. Devers lefyn; towards the end. Kelham.

To deprive.

I. I In feudal law. To take away an investiture; to depriveof possession of a fee or f eu4

a voluntary departure, without necessity or reasonable cause, from the regular and usual course of a voyage, in reference to the terms of a policy of marine insurance; but it is no

The basis of the privilege of deviation to avoid perils of the sea is humanitarian. To hold that the master whose ship is in a perilous position must choose between the hazard of c

A device need not be necessarily fraudulent; the term includes anything which is a plan or contrivance. Webster defines it to be 'that which is devised or formed by design; a contr

the term “device-making equipment” means any equipment, mechanism, or impression designed or primarily used for making an access device or a counterfeit access device;

The term “device user facility” means a hospital, ambulatory surgical facility, nursing home, or outpatient treatment facility which is not a physician's office. The Secretary may

From the neighborhood.

To die.

Fr. To die. Devie,devia, devy; dies, Litt. sect. 2, 4. Deviont; they die. Id. sect. 4.

Writ of (or for) removing lay force. A writ which lay where two parsons contended for a church, and one of them entered into it with a great number of laymen, and held out the othe

A I n of a barrister recently admitted i a junior barrister In his pi work, without compensation and without appearing in any way in the matter.

An instrument of torture, formerly used to extort confessions, etc. It was made of several icons, wlftch were fastened to the neck and legs, and wrenched together se as to break th

Lat. Of vert and venison. Of, or relating to the CTeensward of the king's forests, and the king's deer. Cart, de Forest. 9 JHen. III. 4 ^t. 289. 3 Bl. Com, 71, 72. A term of the ol

A boundary.

To separate, divide, distribute: to dispose of property by will; to devise. Devisavit vel non. Did he make a devise or not; did he make a will. An issue, directed by a court of pro

Capable of being devised. 1 Pow. Dev. 165; 2 Bl. Comm. 373.

I Z. In old English law. To devise. Devisavit: he devised, Devisavit vel noli: did he devise or not? was there a will or not? an issue directed by a court of equity to a court of l

In practice. The name of an issue sent out of a court of chancery, or one which exercises chancery jurisdiction, to a court of law, to try the validity of a paper asserted and deni

In practice. The name of an issue sent out of a court of chancery or one which exercises chancery jurisdiction, to a court of law, to try the validity of a paper asserted and denie

A gift of real property by a person's last will and testament. The term "devise," properly and technicalproperty. 1 Hill, Abr. c. 36, notes 62-74. But it is also sometimes improper

I. fr. and eng. A gift of lands or other real property, by will. V. Executory devise.

l.fr. In old English law. A boundary; a division line^ or space separating lands; a court

A person to whom a devise has been made.

Fr. & Eng. [L. Lat. devisamentum, devisatio, devisa or divisa; from Fr. deviser; Lat. dividers, to divide.] A gift or disposition of lands or other real property, by a last will an

Fr. To devise. Some make the proper meaning of this word to be, to speak; others, to will. Co, Litt. Ilia. Brands. It is, more correctly, to divide, or distribute, from the Lat. di

The court of appeals of Maryland, in the case of Hale vs. Mullin, decided, that a devise of property real or personal by a master to his slave, entitles the slave to his freedom by

A devise to the trustees and their heirs to the uses mentioned, carries the legal estate to the cestuis que use , unless the will has imposed on the trustees some duty, the perform

It has been an established rule, in the construction of wills, that a devise of lands, without words of limitation, confers on the devisee an estate for life only.

Lat. Of the vicinage. Reg. Orig. 32 b. Reg. Jud. 4. See De vicineto.

A testator; one who devises real estate.

Duty. It is used in the statute of 2 Rich. II. c. 3, in the sense of "duties" or "customs."

In ecclesiastical law. The transfer, by forfeiture, of a right and power which a person has to another, on account of some act or negligence of the person who is vested with such r

In the law of Louisiana, one which does not suspend the execution of -the judgment appealed from. Sinte v. Allen, 51 La. Ann. 1842, 26 South. 434.

"To devolve means to pass from a person dying to a person living." 1 Myline & K. 648. DEVYER (Law Fr.) To die. Deoya, died.

Devors. L. Fr. Divorce; a, or the divorce. Britt. c. 51, 107.

Li. Fr. Dies; deceases. Bend-loe, 5.

To die.

Writ of warranty of charter. A writ which lay for him who was enfcoffed, with clause of warranty, [in the charter of feoffment,] and was afterwards impleaded in an assise or other

A writ of warranty of charter.

A writ which lay for a party in the service of the king who was required to appear in person on a certain day, commanding the justices not to record his default, the king certifyin

A writ to save one from default by reason of absence in the king’s service.

In English law. A person who, being an alien born, has obtained, ex donatione reyis, letters patent to make him an English subject,—a high and incoismn- @nicable branch of the roya

Lat. In Roman law. A division of the as, consisting of ten undoes ten-twelfths or five-sixths. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note m.

One at the right hand of another.

To shake hands in token of friendship; or to giye up oneself to the power of another person.

I. fr. Against; towards. Derers le fyn: towards the end.

deiver, I. fr. To owe; ought Deyvent: ought

dezyner, Z. fr. A deciner; one of a decennary.

A sort of lynch law, ya person was first punished and then tried. Wharton. Iz. To aubsist; to exist; to be susable; to be proper or available. Thus phrase “an action will not Jie”

cleatly directed to the sheriffs of London, commianding them, in cases where a wril of error was brought by a defendant against whom a judgment was reevvered, to see that his goods

A writ for the enforce ment of aright of way. Reg. Orig. 155,

For dividing athing heldincommon. The name of an action given by the civil law. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 499.

From to day day. Bract. fol. 2058, DE DIVERSIS REGULIS JURIS

Inthe civillaw. An accusulion or information.

In English ecclesiastical law. ‘The taking away from a clergyman his benefice or other spiritual proinotion or diguity, either by sentence declaratory in the proper court for fit a

In Mevyican law. The desamoriizacion of property is to take it out of morbmain, (dead hands;) that is, to unlouse it from the grasp, as it were, of ecclesiastical or civil corporat

The term “diabetes outpatient self-management training services” means educational and training services furnished (at such times as the Secretary determines appropriate) to an ind

The term “diabetes screening tests” means testing furnished to an individual at risk for diabetes (as defined in paragraph (2)) for the purpose of early detection of diabetes, incl

The office of a deacon.

A deacon

A medical term, meaning the discovery of the source of a patient's illness or the determination, of the nature of his disease from a study of its symptoms. Said to be little more t

“Diagnostic or treatment center” means a facility for the diagnosis or diagnosis and treatment of ambulatory patients— (1) which is operated in connection with a hospital, or (2) i

The term “diagnostic reading assessment” means an assessment that is— (i) valid, reliable, and based on scientifically based reading research; and (ii) used for the purpose of— (I)

That branch of logic which teaches the rides and modes of reasoning.

The term “dialing parity” means that a person that is not an affiliate of a local exchange carrier is able to provide telecommunications services in such a manner that customers ha

A rhetorical figure in which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point. Enc. Lond.

Dialogue of or about the exchequer. An ancient treatise on the court of exchequer, attributed by some to Gervase of Tilbury, by others to Richard Fitz Nigel, bishop of London in th

A logical reasoning in a progressive manner, proceeding from one subject to another. Enc. Lond.

Daily food, or as much as will suffice for the day. Du Cange. DIATAXiS. In the civil law a constitution or ordinance. The novels of Justinian are all given this name.