Law Dictionary

During.

See "Administration." DURANTE BENE PLACITO (Lat. during good pleasure). The ancient tenure of English judges was durante bene placito. 1 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 267, 342. DURANTE MINO

During good pleasure.

During insanity.

During a journey.

During minority.

During widowhood.

During virginity, (so long as she remains unmarried.)

During life.

Extent, limit or time. People v. Hill, 7 Cal. 102.

In India, a court, audiei. levee.

2. To subject to duress, A word used by Lord Bacon. “If the party duressed do make any motion,” ete. Bac. Max. 89, rep. 22.

A threat to break a contract does not in itself constitute duress. Before the coercive effect of the threatened action can be inferred, there must be evidence of some probable cons

even if the state is driven to an action, if, at the same time, the citizen is put at a serious disadvantage in the assertion of his legal, in this case of his constitutional, righ

duress of imprisonment, which is where there is an arrest for an improper purpose without just cause, or where there is an arrest for a just cause but without lawful authority, or

The wrongful imprisonment of a person, or the illegal restraint of his liberty, in order to compel him to do some act. 1 Bl. Com. 130, 131, 136, 137. 1 Steph. Com. 187. 2 Kent's Co

One who subjects another to duress; one who compels another to do a thing, as by menace. Bac. Max. 90, reg. 22.

Duress through threats.

See County Palatine.

Means while the marriage lasts. 4 Mo. 159. There is frequently great difficulty in construing the words "during the coverture" when those words occur in an antenuptial marriage set

a provision that an office be held 'during good behavior' is generally deemed indicative of an intention to create a life tenure unless cause for removal arises

the life of the section or the matters mentioned in the section, and 'hereof' should be changed to 'thereof.' The court accepts neither of the interpretations, but gives its author

Bursley. [from Germ. dorr, dry, and Sax. slege, a stroke.] In old European law. Blows without wounding or bloodshed; dry blows or beating. Spelman.

or DURSLEY. In old English law. Blows without wounding or bloodshed; dry blows or beating. Spelman.

If, with respect to the 1962 and 1963 crops of wheat, the Secretary determines that the acreage allotments of farms producing durum wheat are inadequate to provide for the producti

Duzim. L. Fr. Twelfth. Kelham. DU8KES A CHOU QE. L. Fr. Until that. Kelham.

A bushel, according to "dust measure," is composed of a half bushel heaped and a half bushel filled to the level, at the pit where the coal is made, coal dust being used because th

A term used in Hindostan for a passport, permit or order from the English Blast Indian Company. It generally meant a permit under their seal exempting goods from the payment of dut

See "Court of Piepoudre."

An auction at which the auctioneer fixes a price for the articles offered, which is gradually lowered until accepted. See 18 Hun (N. Y.) 475.

the merchant appraisers appraise, estimate, and ascertain, the actual market value or wholesale value thereof, at the period of exportation to the United States, in the principal m

Duties are defined by Tomlin to be things due and recoverable by law. The term, in its widest signification, is hardly less comprehensive than 'taxes.' It is applied, in its most r

As used in this section, the term “duties and other import restrictions” includes (A) rate and form of import duties and classification of articles, and (B) limitations, prohibitio

But it is proper to say, in order that the opinion of the court may not be misunderstood, that when we speak of duties illegally exacted, the court mean to confine the opinion to c

Taxes levied upon the removal from one state to another of property acquired by succession or testamentary disposition. Frederickson v. Louisiana, 23 How. 445 , 16 L. Ed. 577; In r

the duties due upon all goods imported constitute a personal debt due to the United States from the importer, (and the consignee for this purpose is treated as the owner and import

the duty under the Acts is not based on the negligence of the carrier but is an absolute one requiring performance 'on the occasion in question

the very extent of the power and the conclusive character of his decision raised a corresponding duty that that agent's judgment should be exercised not capriciously or fraudulentl

In this section the term “duty call” means a telephone call that a railroad places to an employee to notify the employee of his or her assigned shift time.

only those duties "explicitly" prescribed by a provision of the Williams Act.

The term “duty-free merchandise” means merchandise sold by a duty-free sales enterprise on which neither Federal duty nor Federal tax has been assessed pending exportation from the

The term “duty-free sales enterprise” means a person that sells, for use outside the customs territory, duty-free merchandise that is delivered from a bonded warehouse to an airpor

the owner of a ship in navigable waters owes to all who are on board for purposes not inimical to his legitimate interests the duty of exercising reasonable care under the circumst

[the tug] owed to the owner of the [tow] the duty to exercise such reasonable care and maritime skill as prudent navigators employ for the performance of similar service

Children, wherever they go, must be expected to act upon childish instincts and impulses; and others, who are chargeable with a duty of care and caution towards them, must calculat

When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they be held to the greatest possible care and dilige

The question in this case is, whether the intelligence of extrinsic circumstances, which might influence the price of the commodity, and which was exclusively within the knowledge

a company supplying electricity for lighting purposes, and engaging with individuals to deliver a suitable current at their residences and places of business, over its own system o

The undoubted broad authority of the union as exclusive bargaining agent in the negotiation and administration of a collective bargaining contract is accompanied by a responsibilit

it is the duty of steamboats traversing waters where sailing vessels are often met with, to have a trustworthy and constant look-out, stationed at a part of the vessel best adapted

to represent non-union or minority union members of the craft without hostile discrimination, fairly, impartially, and in good faith. Wherever necessary to that end, the union is r

In the performance of this duty the law requires indefatigable care and sleepless vigilance. The rigor of the requirement rises according to the power and speed of the vessel in qu

It was not only a pro rata tax which was prohibited, but any duty on the ship, whether a fixed sum upon its whole tonnage, or a sum to be ascertained by comparing the amount of ton

an obligation rests upon all vessels found in the avenues of commerce to employ active diligence to avoid collisions, and that no inference can be drawn from the fact, that a vesse

a tax or duty on a bill of lading, although differing in form from a duty on the article shipped, is in substance the same thing; for a bill of lading, or some written instrument o

The term “duty or other import restriction” includes (A) the rate and form of an import duty, and (B) a limitation, prohibition, charge, and exaction other than duty, imposed on im

The duty of a fiduciary to account for property intrusted to his care is fulfilled by delivery of the property, but, if he has put it out of his power to deliver it, he may neverth

performance of the duty to bargain requires more than a willingness to enter upon a sterile discussion of union-management differences. Before the enactment of the National Labor R

The true principle deducible from the authorities on this subject is, that where a party orders insurance, and afterwards receives intelligence material to the risk, or has knowled

It is the duty of one selling securities who attempts to supply a prospective purchaser with facts concerning the issue not only to state truthfully what he actually tells but also

§ 2 First was intended to be more than a mere statement of policy or exhortation to the parties; rather, it was designed to be a legal obligation, enforceable by whatever appropria

The regulation... is satisfied when the registrant, in good faith, provides a chain of forwarding addresses by which mail, sent to the address which is furnished the board, may be

Two Roman municipal magistrates with the same functions.

A chief; a leader.

To have a domicile. 5 Pick. (Mass.) 379. As to one having no domicile, it signifies the place where he temporarily resides. L. R. 1 Exch. 133. A corporation dwells in the place whe

The word 'dwelling' in common parlance means a permanent residence. A person can of course take up permanent residence even in a motel or hotel. But those who come for a night or s

A building inhabited by man; a house usually occupied by the person there residing, and his family; the apartment, building, or cluster of buildings in which a man with his family

A building occupier and his family cluster of buildings in which

See Residence;

The term “dwelling unit” has the meaning given such term by section 280A(f)(1). / the term “dwelling unit” means a house or apartment used to provide living accommodations in a bui

Subject to subparagraph (B), the term “dwell time” means the time a member of the armed forces or a unit spends at the permanent duty station or home port after returning from a de

In genealogical tobies, a common abbreviation for "died without issue."

The term “dyed fuel” means any dyed diesel fuel or kerosene, whether or not the fuel was dyed pursuant to section 4082.

To make out a dying declaration, the declarant must have spoken without hope of recovery and in the shadow of impending death. There must be 'a settled hopeless expectation' that d

Declarations made by one at the point of death, or believing himself to be. They are admissible in evidence only when made by the victim of a homicide (56 N. Y. 103; 35 Ohio St. 78

At common law a person is said to die without issue if his issue fail at any time after or before his death. By statute, and in vrills, the words are construed according to their p

Not having issue living at the death of the decedent. 5 Paige, Ch. (N. Y.) 514. In England this is the signification, by St. 7 Wm. IV., and St. 1 Vict. c. 26, § 29. See 2 Washb. Re

An officer who has the care and oversight of the dykes and drains in fenny counties.

or DYKE-REEVE. An otlicer who has the care and oversight of the dykes and drains in fenny counties.

“dynamic assumptions” means economic assumptions that are used in determining actuarial costs and liabilities of a retirement system and in anticipating the effects of long-term fu

A royal family succession to a throne.

The term “dyslexia” means an unexpected difficulty in reading for an individual who has the intelligence to be a much better reader, most commonly caused by a difficulty in the pho

The term “dyslexia screening program” means a screening program for dyslexia that is— (A) evidence-based (as defined in section 8101(21) of the Elementary and Secondary Education A

Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.

In medical jurisprudence. Incapacity of a woman to sustain the act of sexual intercourse except with great difficnity and pain.

The group of symptoms resulting from alterations in the process of digestion due either to functional or organic diseases of the stomach. Dyspepsia is not, in general, considered a

A state of the stomach in which its functions are disturbed, without the presence of other diseases or when, lf other diseases are present, they are of minor importance, Dungl. Med

In Scotch law. A bankrupt.

In Scotch law. A habit which debtors who are set free on a cessio bonorum ai^e obliged to wear, unless in the summons and process of cessio it be libelled, sustained, and proved th