Law Dictionary

The term "direct-to-consumer television advertisement" means an advertisement for a prescription drug product (as defined in section 379g(3) of this title) intended to be

Have exclusive jurisdiction to regulate the provision of direct-to-home satellite services. As used in this subsection, the term “direct-to-home satellite services” means the distr

A direct trust is an express trust, as distinguished from a constructive or implied trust. Carrence v. Ward, 43 W. Va. 307, 27 S. E. 329.

I. In the civil law. That which is founded on strict law, as distinguished from equity.

Derictum, Drietum. L. Lat. [O. Fr. droict.] In old European law. Right. Spelman, voc. Derittum. That which is straight, as opposed to crooked, (tortum, tort, or wrong.) Id. See Tor

“direct use” means utilization of geothermal resources for commercial, residential, agricultural, public facilities, or other energy needs other than the commercial production of e

The term "direct use of geothermal energy" means geothermal systems that use water directly or through a heat exchanger to provide— (A) heating and cooling to buildings,

Distributors of ballots at a Roman election.

Those bars which annul a consummated marriage.

In canon law. Absolute bars to marriage, which would make it null ab initio.

In Roman law. Officers who distributed ballots to the people, to be used in voting. Tayl. Civ. Law, 192.

The term “dirty egg” means an egg that has a shell that is unbroken and has adhering dirt or foreign material.

inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment.

The term “disability advisory committee” means a body of stakeholders (including airport staff, airline representatives, and individuals with disabilities) that provide to airports

For purposes of this section, the term "disability annuity overpayment" means the amount of the reduction under section 8452(a)(2) of title 5 applicable to a monthly annu

The term “disability certification” means, with respect to an individual, a certification to the satisfaction of the Secretary by the individual or the parent or guardian of the in

For purposes of this subparagraph, the term “disability income” means the aggregate amount includable in the gross income of the individual for the taxable year under section 72 or

The term “disability rated as total” means— (A) a disability that is rated as total under the standard schedule of rating disabilities in use by the Department of Veterans Affairs;

In its ordinary sense, to disable is to cause a disability, (q. v.) In the old language of pleading, to disable is to take advantage of one's own or another's disability. Thus, it

both mental or physical illness, mental or physical injury, and, to the extent specified in Section 2626.2, pregnancy.

The term “disabled beneficiary” means a title II disability beneficiary or a title XVI disability beneficiary. / The term “disabled beneficiary” means an individual— (A) who is a d

The terms “elderly family”, “disabled family”, and “near-elderly family” have the meanings given the terms under section 3(b)(3) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 [ 42 U.S.C

The term “disabled veteran” means (A) a veteran who is entitled to compensation under laws administered by the Secretary for a disability rated at 30 percent or more, or (B) a vete

The acts of 1 Eliz. c. 19, 13 Eliz. c. 10, 14 Eliz. co. 11, 14, 18 Eliz. c. 11, and 43 Eliz. c. 29, by which stricted. 2 Bl. Comm. 319, 321; Co. Litt. 44a; 3 Steph. Comm. 140. Also

Subject to subclause (V), the term "disadvantaged adult" means an adult who received an income, or is a member of a family that received a total family income, that, in r

The term “disadvantaged area” means a community with an annual median household income that is less than 80 percent of the statewide annual median household income, as determined b

In accrediting qualified third parties to carry out the certification process under this subsection, a selected entity shall ensure, to the extent practicable, that the third parti

The term “disadvantaged business concerns” means small businesses that are owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals as defined in section 1 124,

The term "disadvantaged community" means a community (including a city, town, county, or reasonably isolated and divisible segment of a larger municipality) with an annua

The term “disadvantaged entrepreneur” means a microentrepreneur that is— (A) a low-income person; (B) a very low-income person; or (C) an entrepreneur that lacks adequate access to

The term “disadvantaged small business concern” means a firm that is not more than the size standard corresponding to its primary North American Industry Classification System code

Subject to paragraph (3), the term “disadvantaged youth” means an individual who is age 16 through 21 who received an income, or is a member of a family that received a total famil

To disavow.

To restore to their formoer condition lands which have been turned into forests. To remove from the operation of the forest laws. 2 Bl. Comm. 416.

To repudiate; to revoke a consent once given; to recall an affirmance. To refuse one's subsequent sanction to a former act; to disclaim the intention of being bound by an anteceden

The act by which a person who has entered into a voidable contract, as, for example, an infant, disagrees to such contract, and declares he will not abide by it. Disaf Srmance is e

To restore to their former condition lands which have been turned into forest. To remove from the operation of the forest laws. 2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 416.

To disfranchise.

The term “claim” as used in this section means any writing which uses words showing an intention to claim insurance benefits; and the term “disagreement” means a denial of the clai

To overrule; to reject; to deny.

For purposes of this subsection, the term “disallowance of an applicable energy credit” means the disallowance of a credit under section 45X, 45Y, or 48E by reason of overstating t

A bankruptcy court in which an estate is being administered has full power to inquire into the validity of any alleged debt or obligation of the bankrupt upon which a demand or cla

The term “disallowed cost” means a questioned cost that management, in a management decision, has sustained or agreed should not be charged to the Government.

For purposes of this subsection, the term “disallowed interest expense” means the aggregate amount disallowed under subsection (a) with respect to the market discount bond.

To disable a person.

This is where the appropriation of a benefice is severed, either by the patron presenting a clerk, or by the corporation which has the appropriation being dissolved. 1 Bl. Comm. 38

For purposes of this subsection, the term “disapproval resolution” means only a joint resolution of either House of Congress the matter after the resolving clause of which is as fo

See Estoppel; Protest, 1.

The terms “arms control” and “disarmament” mean the identification, verification, inspection, limitation, control, reduction, or elimination, of armed forces and armaments of all k

For the purposes of this chapter, the term "disaster" means a sudden event which causes severe damage including, but not limited to, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthq

For purposes of this section, the term “disaster area” means an area in which the President, pursuant to section 5170 of title 42 , has determined that a major disaster exists. / t

The term “disaster county” means a county included in the geographic area covered by a qualifying natural disaster declaration. / The term “disaster county” includes— (i) a county

the term “disaster loan program of the Administration” means assistance under section 636(b) of this title , as amended by this Act;

In this subsection, the term “disaster-recovery FMAP adjustment State” means a State that is one of the 50 States or the District of Columbia, for which, at any time during the pre

the term “disaster-related substantial economic injury” means economic harm to a business concern that results in the inability of the business concern to— (I) meet its obligations

For the purposes of this subparagraph, the term “disaster relief” means activities carried out pursuant to a determination under section 5122(2) of title 42 .

The term "disaster response duty" means duty performed by a member of the National Guard in State status pursuant to an emergency declaration by the Governor of the State

the term “disaster update period” means the period beginning on the date on which the President declares a major disaster (including any major disaster relating to which the Admini

To deny the authority by which an agent pretends to have acted, as It is the duty of the principal to fulfill the contracts which have been entered into by his authorized agent; an

Same as Dissolve. See 71 Mich. 87, 38 N. W. 712.

In English Law. To expel a barrister from the bar. In the United States. To debar an attorney from the right to practice.

The power of disbarment is necessary for the protection of the public in order to strip a man of the implied representation by courts that a man who is allowed to hold himself out

Beyond all question, when admission to the Bar of this court is secured, that right may not be taken away except by the action of this court. ... we should recognize the condition

One to disbar an attorney. See 121 Iowa, 292, 100 Am. St. Rep. 354, 63 L. R. A. 614, 96 N. W. 855.

adversary proceedings of a quasi-criminal nature

To strike off the name of a person from the roll of the senior members of the Inns of Court in London.

In old English law. A conversion of wood grounds into arable or pasture; an assarting. Cowell. See "Assart."

The act of disforesting.

Money paid out by an executor, guardian, or trustee, on account of the fund in his hands. The necessary expenditures incurred in an action, and which, under the codes of procedure

Money expended by an executor, guardian, trustee, etc., for the benefit of the estate in his hands or in connection with its administration. The term is also used under the codes o

The term “disbursements from the plan” means all disbursements from the trust, including purchases of annuities, payments of single sums and other benefits, and administrative expe

Disbursing agents are required to settle their receipts and disbursements with the accounting officers of the treasury, and their private books are inadmissible to control that off

For purposes of this title, the term “DISC” means, with respect to any taxable year, a corporation which is incorporated under the laws of any State and satisfies the following con

or DISCARGARE (Law Lat. from dis, priv., and carcare, to load or charge). In old English law. To discharge; to unload; as a vessel. Carcare et disca/rcare, to charge and discharge;

To discharge a cargo.

The term “discarded military munitions” means military munitions that have been abandoned without proper disposal or removed from storage in a military magazine or other storage ar

In old European law. To discharge or unload, as a wagon. Spelman.

The old way of writing descent, after the French. Litt. sect. 385. Co. Litt. 237. 1 Salk. 241.

Same as Dis-ceptio causae.

Argument in a cause by counsel.

In Roman law. The argument of a cause by the counsel on bath sides. Calvim

Discharge normally means termination of the employment relationship or loss of a position. In common parlance and in industrial parlance a person who has been laid off by operation

A setting free; a clearing, release or delivery; an acquittance; the instrument by which a person is discharged from a debt or obligation, or an encumbrance is cancelled; the unlad

"discharged" means released from an appointment as a Reserve officer.

There is no more elemental cause for discharge of an employee than disloyalty to his employer. It is equally elemental that the Taft-Hartley Act seeks to strengthen, rather than to

Section 1 of the bankruptcy act defines a discharge as 'the release of a bankrupt from all of his debts which are provable in bankruptcy, except such as are excepted by this act.

“discharge incidental to the normal operation of a vessel”— (A) means a discharge, including— (i) graywater, bilge water, cooling water, weather deck runoff, ballast water, oil wat

See.TraY.

any addition of any pollutant to navigable waters from any point source." § 1362(12).

A contract may be discharged in the following ways: Performance according to its terms; a breach of such a nature as to justify the innocent party in treating the contract as resci

although the indorser has received due notice of the dishonour of the bill, yet if the holder afterwards enters into any new agreement with the drawer for delay, in any manner chan

In this section, the term “discharge of pollutants” has the meaning given that term in section 502(12) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1362(12) ) (commonly r

It is clear that the mere prolongation of the term of payment of the principal debtor, or of the time for the performance of his duty, will not discharge a surety or guarantor. The

the question whether the contract of the principal has been altered so as to discharge the surety is to be decided according to the essentials, in whatever jurisdiction it may be r

an agreement between a creditor and the principal debtor for delay, or otherwise changing the nature of the contract, in order to discharge the surety, must be an agreement having

The term "discharge or release" includes (A) retirement from the active military, naval, air, or space service, and (B) the satisfactory completion of the period of activ

In such case the rule is, 'that a discharge set up in avoidance, coupled with an admitted liability, if the answer be replied to, (as here it is,) must be proved by the defendant.

as to the certificate under the English bankrupt laws, it had frequently been determined, and was well settled, that a discharge under a foreign law, was no bar to an action on a c

punishment that a union can impose by virtue of its own authority over its members.

To relinquish a claim; to deny having a claim; to deny or disavow another's claim; to decline to accept an estate, interest or office.