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“dispute resolution proceeding” means any process in which an alternative means of dispute resolution is used to resolve an issue in controversy in which a neutral is appointed and

The term “Dispute Settlement Body” means the Dispute Settlement Body administering the rules and procedures set forth in the Dispute Settlement Understanding.

the terms “dispute settlement panel” and “Appellate Body” have the meanings given those terms in section 3531 of this title . / The terms “dispute settlement panel” and “panel” mea

The term “Dispute Settlement Understanding” means the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes referred to in section 3511(d)(16) of this title. /

For purposes of this subsection, the term “disqualification rate” means the percentage which— (A) the total number of nationals of the program country who were— (i) denied admissio

The term “disqualification year” means, with respect to any bank, the 1st taxable year beginning after December 31, 1986, for which such bank was a large bank if such bank maintain

The term “disqualified asset” means any property or right to property transferred to an individual making the election under this subsection with respect to a joint return by the o

The term “disqualified benefit” means— (A) any post-retirement medical benefit or life insurance benefit provided with respect to a key employee if a separate account is required t

For purposes of this paragraph the term “disqualified corporation” means, with respect to any taxable year, any foreign corporation which is a controlled foreign corporation for an

For purposes of this subsection, the term “disqualified debt instrument” means any indebtedness of a corporation which is payable in equity of the issuer or a related party or equi

For purposes of this subsection, the term “disqualified distribution” means any distribution to which this section (or so much of section 356 as relates to this section) applies if

For purposes of this subparagraph, the term “disqualified holder” means any shareholder (or beneficiary) which is not described in clause (i) or (ii) of subparagraph (C).

For purposes of paragraph (1), the term “disqualified income” means— (A) interest or dividends to the extent includible in gross income for the taxable year, (B) interest received

For purposes of this section, the term "disqualified individual" means any individual who is— / The term “disqualified individual” means, with respect to any private foun

The term "disqualified investment corporation" means any distributing or controlled corporation if the fair market value of the investment assets of the corporation is— (

For purposes of this subparagraph, the term “disqualified lease” means any lease of the property to a tax-exempt entity, but only if— (I) part or all of the property was financed (

For purposes of this subsection, the term “disqualified leaseback or long-term agreement” means any section 467 rental agreement if— (A) such agreement is part of a leaseback trans

For purposes of this section, the term “disqualified organization” means— (A) the United States, any State or political subdivision thereof, any foreign government, any internation

The term “disqualified person” means any person if— (i) the aggregate number of deemed-owned shares of such person and the members of such person's family is at least 20 percent of

The term “disqualified portion” means, with respect to any covered asset acquisition, for any taxable year, the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of— (i) the aggregate basis differ

For purposes of this subsection, the term "disqualified preferred stock" means any stock which is preferred as to dividends if— (A) when issued, such stock has a dividend

For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term “disqualified property” means any property which is acquired by the liquidating corporation in a transaction to which section 351 applied

The term “disqualified related party amount” means any interest or royalty paid or accrued to a related party to the extent that— (A) such amount is not included in the income of s

The term “disqualified separately computed income” means the portion of the separately computed taxable income of the subsidiary which does not exceed the dividends distributed by

For purposes of this subsection, the term “disqualified stock” means— (A) any stock in the distributing corporation acquired by purchase during the 5-year period ending on the date

The term “disqualified supporting organization” means, with respect to any distribution— (i) any type III supporting organization (as defined in section 4943(f)(5)(A)) which is not

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “disqualified taxable year” means, with respect to any employer, any taxable year for which such employer is a covered health insurance pro

For purposes of clause (i), the term “disqualified yield” means the excess of the yield to maturity on the obligation over the sum referred to in subsection (i)(1)(B) plus 1 percen

To incapacitate, to disable, to divest or deprive of qualifications. Matter of Maguire, 57 Cal. 606, 40 Am. Rep. 125. DISRATI0NARE. To clear oneself from

The term “disqualifying information” means a conviction for a relevant crime or a finding of patient or resident abuse.

In maritime law. To deprive a seaman or petty officer of his "rating" or rank; to reduce to a lower rate or rank.

To exonerate one’s self.

To Justify; to clear one's self of a fault; to traverse an indictment; to disprove, Eng. Lond.

I I. In old English law. making good of a claim or charge. of which the other is taken livings granted to the crown; court; to dispose of finally. to law. Disorderly house: a badly

The term "disruptive event" means an event in which operations of the electric grid are disrupted, preventively shut off, or cannot operate safely due to extreme weather,

Dissaisire, L. Lat. In old English law. To disseise, or put out of seisin. Spelman, The more usual forms are disseysire and disseisire. See Disseise.

In old Scotch law. Disseisin; dispossession, Skene de Verb. Sign.

The act of cutting into pieces an animal or vegetable for the purpose of ascertaining the structure and use of its parts; anatomy; the act of separating into constituent parts for

To dispossess; to deprive.

One who is wrongfully put out of possession of his lands; one who is disseised.

Lat. To disseise. Magna Charta, c. 27.

A privation of seisin; a usurpation of the right of seisin and possession, and an exercise of such powers and privileges of ownership as to keep out or displace him to whom these r

QUI UTI non permlttit possessorem, vel minus commode, licet omnino non expellat. He makes disseisin enough who does not permit the possessor to enjoy, or makes his enjoyment less c

One commits a disseisin who does not permit the possessor to enjoy his property or who renders his enjoyment less comfortable, although he does not expel him altogether.

A legal fiction whereby the owner admitted disseisin that he might sue an adverse claimant. See 2 Wend. (N. Y.) 166, 19 Am. Dec. 571.

That wherein the owner elects to consider himself disseised for the sake of the remedy by novel disseisin. See 2 Wend. (N. Y.) 166, 19 Am. Dec. 571.

Exists only when there is a wrongful entry by one claiming an actual ouster of the true owner, or some act tantamount thereto. See 2 Wend. (N. Y.) 166, 19 Am. Dec. 571.

the doing of such overt acts of ownership as are possible on wild land, under a recorded deed which shows that the actor claims title, coupled with payment of the taxes, the owner

disseysii-e, i!. I. In old English law. To disseisa

disseysitor, 1.1. A disseisor. Disseisitus, disseysitns: a disseisee.

A female disseisor; a disseisoress. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 12, § 4.

One who has been disseised.

One who puts another out of the possession of his lands wrongfully. DISSEISORESS (Law Lat. disseisitrix). A woman that disseises another person. Litt. § 678; Co. Litt. 357b.

A female disseisor.

The term “dissemination” means the communication and transfer, through the provision of technical assistance and other means, of the results of research and proven practice in form

Lat In the civil law. The mutual agreement of the parties to a simple contract obligation that it shall be dissolved or annulled; technically, an undoing of the consensus which cre

A disagreement to something which has been done. It is express or implied.

One who refuses to conform to the rites and ceremonies of the established church; a non-conformist. 2 Burn, Eccl. Law 165. DISSENTIENTE (Lat dissenting). Used with the name or name

Protestant seceders from the established church of England. They are of many denominations, principally Presbyterians, Independents, Methodists, and Baptists ; but, as to church go

As used in this paragraph, the term “dissenting limited partner” means a person who, on the date on which soliciting material is mailed to investors, is a holder of a beneficial in

A separate opinion in which a particular judge announces his dissent from the conclusion held by a majority of the court, and expounds his own views. —Per curiam opinion. One concu

One whois wrongfully put out of possession of hislands; one who is disseised.

In old law. To break open a seal. Whishaw.

Of dissimilars the rule is dissimilar. Co. Litt. 191.

I A passing over. Dissimulatione tollitur injuria: an injury is extinguished by the forgiveness or reconcilement of the party injured.

Wrong is wiped out by reconciliation. Ersk. Inst. bk. 4, tit. 4, § 108.

I To dissolve, as a contract or connection; to unloose a legal bond or tie; to set free from obligation, v. Eodem, etc.

an antitrust judgment which dissolves or terminates an illegal combination or association—putting it out of business, so to speak.

The term “dissolution date” means September 30, 2008, or such earlier date as the Secretary of Education permits the transfer of remaining obligations in accordance with subsection

the dissolution of the corporation, under the acts of Virginia and Maryland... cannot, in any just sense, be considered, within the clause of the constitution of the United States

The effects of a dissolution of a corporation are usually described to be, the reversion of the lands to those who had granted them; the extinguishment of the debts, either to or f

A corporation, by the very terms and nature of its political existence, is subject to dissolution, by a surrender of its corporate franchises, and by a forfeiture of them for wilfu

the Kickapoo reservation was obliterated, the tribal lands were no more, and only individual allotments survived. We think it clear that the term 'reservation' as used in the statu

The crown may dissolve parliament either in person or by proclamation; the dissolution is usually by proclamation, after a prorogation. No parliament may last for a longer period t

To effect a dissolution.

Lat. To dissolve, as a contract or connection. B^dcn mmdm «■• •rl Mr, emdeim nod* din«l Tltnr. By the same means by which a thing originates, by the same means is it dissolved. It

A bond given to obtain the dissolution of a legal writ or process, particularly an attachment or an injunction, and conditioned to indemnify the opposite party or to abide the judg

In criminal law. To Induce a person not to do an act. able offense at common law. Hawk. P. C. bk. 1, c. 21, § 15. The mere attempt to stifle evidence is also criminal, although the

The term “distance” means the minimum great circle distance, measured in statute miles.

the straight line, as the means of ascertaining a locative call, has certainly been rejected as a general rule... when distance is indicated by a road, it shall be held to mean, by

Except as otherwise provided, the term “distance education” means education that uses one or more of the technologies described in subparagraph (B)— (i) to deliver instruction to s

The term “distance learning” means the transmission of educational or instructional programming to geographically dispersed individuals and groups via telecommunications.

Subject to paragraph (8), the term “distant site” means the site at which the physician or practitioner is located at the time the service is provided via a telecommunications syst

Is measured in a straight line, " as the crow flies," or on the horizontal plane.! May refer to the usually traveled road, = See Aloks; Course, 1; Dibrot, 1; Near.

To subject to a process of distillation, i. e., vaporizing the more volatile parte of a substance and then cendensing the vapor so formed. In law, the term is chiefly used in conne

The distillation of spirituous liquors is performed by a double process: by the application of heat to a still containing the material. The product of the first process, after runn

A term which includes nil potable alcoholic liquors Obtained by the process of distillation, (such as whisky, brandy, rum, and gin) but excludes fermented and malt liquors, such as

The terms “distilled spirits”, “alcoholic spirits”, and “spirits” mean that substance known as ethyl alcohol, ethanol, or spirits of wine in any form (including all dilutions and m

The term “distilled spirits operation” means any operation for which qualification is required under subchapter B.

The term “distilled spirits plant” means an establishment which is qualified under subchapter B to perform any distilled spirits operation.

The term “distiller” includes any person who— (A) produces distilled spirits from any source or substance, (B) brews or makes mash, wort, or wash fit for distillation or for the pr

The strict meaning of "distillery" is a place or building where alcoholic liquors are distilled or manufactured; not every building where the process of distillation is used. Atlan

In old English practice. Distinctly and openly. Formal words in writs of error, referring to the return required to be made to them. Reg. • Orig. 17,

there is a broad distinction between tribal property and private property, and between the power to abrogate a statute and the authority to destroy rights acquired under such law.

the term “distinctive counterfeit deterrent” includes any ink, watermark, seal, security thread, optically variable device, or other feature or device;

A 'distinctive name' may also, of course, be purely arbitrary or fanciful, and thus, being the trade description of the particular thing, may satisfy the statute, provided the name

the term “distinctive paper” includes any distinctive medium of which currency is made, whether of wood pulp, rag, plastic substrate, or other natural or artificial fibers or mater

possessing and selling are distinct offenses. One may obviously possess without selling, and one may sell and cause to be delivered a thing of which he has never had possession, or

I. To distinguish. Disting'uenda sunt tempera: times are to be distinguished; — distingne tempera et cencordabis leges: times are to be distinguished; distinguish times and' you wi

Times must be distinguished; it is one thing to do, another to perfect 3 Leon. 243; Branch, Princ.