Law Dictionary

Authority given to another.

“delegated State” means a State which, pursuant to an agreement or agreements under section 1735 of this title, performs authorities, duties, responsibilities, or activities of the

THE HIGI COURT OF. In English law. Formerly the court of appeal from the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts. Abolished, upon the judicial commnittes of the privy council being con

Court of. v. Court, 87.

any procedure by which delegates to the Convention are bound to vote for the nomination of particular candidates.

In English law. Formerly the court of appeal from the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts. Abolished upon the judicial committee of the privy council being constiinted the court of

A substitution of debtors.

In Civil Law. A kind of novation by which the original debtor, in order to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the credito

In the nature of things it was impracticable for Congress to provide general regulations for these various and varying details of management. Each reservation had its peculiar and

The true distinction is between the delegation of power to make the law, which necessarily involves a discretion as to what it shall be, and conferring authority or discretion as t

While administration and legislation are quite distinct powers, the line which separates exactly their exercise is not easy to define in words. It is best recognized in illustratio

It was competent for the legislature to lay down a general rule, and then establish an administrative tribunal with authority to fix the precise width or thickness of pillar that w

Of legacies and trusts. Dig. 30.

delegata, I. Delegated, deputed, to act for another; transferred or assigned. potest delegari: a delegated power cannot be debitor est odiosus in lege: a delegated Delegatus non po

A substituted debtor is obnoxious to the law.

A person chosen or commissioned: a deputy, agent, representative, trustee. Delegata. Deputed, empowered, intrusted. Delegata potestas non potest delegari. Delegated authority canno

A delegate or deputy cannot appoint another. 2 Bouv. Inst, note 1936; Story, Ag. § 13; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 756-758; 9 Coke, 77; 2 Scott, N. R. 509; 12 Mees. & W. 712;

Lat. Of the Rhodian law of jettison. A title of the Pandects, in which the Rhodian law of jettison is adopted. Dig. 14. 2. 1. 3 Kent's Com. 233.

Writ for removing a leper. A writ to remove a leper who thrust himself into the company of his neighbors in any parish, in public or private places, to their annoyance. Reg. Orig 2

In French Marine Law. A discharging of ballast from a vessel.

In Scotch law. To erase; to strike out. 1 How. St. Tr. 1381. DELIBERANDUIVll EST DIU QUOD STATuendum est semel. That which is to be resolved once for all should be long deliberated

A quarry or mine. SI Eliz. C. T.

Writ of free fold. A species of quod permittat. Reg. Orig. 155.

An ancient writ, that lay for the delivery to his ordinary of a clerk convicted of felony, where the ordinary did not challenge him according to the privilege of clerks. Reg. Orig.

12 Coke, 74. That which is to be resolved once for all should be long deliberated upon.

That which is to be settled once for all should be deliberated at length.

Writ of free fishery. A species of quod permittat. Reg. ^ Orig. 155.

Z. In old English law. To deliver. Deliberabitur: shall be delivered. Deliberatum, liberata: delivered. Deliberari facias: you livered. In the civil law. To deliberate; to consult;

Lat. In old English law. To deliver. Deliberatur; is delivered. Deliberabitur; shall be delivered. Bract. fol. 89 b. Deliberatum, deliberatus, deliberata; delivered. Id. fol. 76, 1

To examine, to consult, in order to form an opinion. Thus, a jury deliberates as to their verdict.

after consultation with competent counsel or otherwise, understandingly and knowingly forewent the privilege of seeking to vindicate his federal claims in the state courts, whether

If a habeas applicant, after consultation with competent counsel or otherwise, understandingly and knowingly forewent the privilege of seeking to vindicate his federal claims in th

defendants who are aware of a substantial risk that their statements are false, but intentionally avoid taking steps to confirm the statement's truth or falsity.

the committee—by failing to meet these minimal procedural standards... did not adequately apprise petitioner that an answer was required notwithstanding his objections. And without

IL In old English law. Delivery well being; of form. Del temps dount memrunneth not an agreement by additional commission, enhe sells; a species of additional commission delatit: a

The act of the understanding by which a party examines whether a thing proposed ought to be done or not ' to be done, or whether it ought to be done in one manner or another. The d

Balancing, weighing: consideration; reflection; meditation, premeditation. 1. When a man passes a thing by deed, there is a determination of the mind to do it, the writing, the sig

Writ of free passage. A species of quod permittat. Reg. Orig. 155.

Writ for proving liberty. A writ which lay for such as, being demanded for villeins or niefs, offered to prove themselves free. Reg. Orig. 87b; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 77 (F). DE LIBERTA

A writ to enforce certain liberties of burgesses.

A delicate debtor is obnoxious to the law.

Writ of permission to cross the sea. An old writ directed to the wardens of the port of Dover, or other seaport in England, commanding them to permit the persons named in the writ

In civil law. The act by which one person, by fraud or malignity, causes some damage or tort to some other. In its most enlarged sense, this term includes all kinds of crimes and m

See Delictum, Ex delicto,

A tort; an injury; a crime.

To mark or lay out the limits or boundary line of a territory or country. DELINQUENS PER IRAM PROVOCAtus puhiri debet mitius. A delinquent provoked by anger ought to be punished mo

The act of fixing, marking off or describing the limits or boundary line of a territory or country.

L To omit a duty; to fail to perform transgress, v. Debet quis, etc.

Delinquency' is not such a classification, and a registrant is 'declared' a delinquent, not 'classified' as a delinquent.

The power under the regulations to declare a registrant 'delinquent' has no statutory standard or even guidelines. The power is exercised entirely at the discretion of the local bo

the term "delinquency prevention program" means a delinquency prevention program that is evidence-based or promising and that may include— (A) alcohol and substance abuse

A delinquent provoked by anger ought to be punished more mildly.

3 Inst. 55. A delinquent provoked by anger ought to be punished more mildly.

In civil law. He who has been guilty of some crime, offense, or failure of duty. cident to febrile diseases, and sometimes to the last stages of chronic diseases. DELIRIUM TREMENS

For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term “delinquent amount” means an amount— (i) in excess of the correct amount of payment under this subchapter; (ii) paid to a person after su

one who has violated a law of the state or an ordinance or regulation of a political subdivision thereof.

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “delinquent tax debt” means an outstanding debt under this title for which a notice of lien has been filed pursuant to section 6323, but th

Lat. [from de, and linquere, to leave.] To omit a duty; to neglect or fail to perform a required act. Calvin Lex. Jurid. Hence the English delinquent. To offend or transgress. Henc

I. fr. Out of; beyond; foreign to. Dehors the record: foreign to the record.

A mental state, produced by bodily disease wherein the mind acts without direction of the power of volition. See 1 Bland’s Ch. (Md.) 370, 17 Am. Dec. 311.

A fever accompanied with delirium.

Delirium brought about by continued and excessive intoxication. See 31 Tex. Cr. Rep. 318, 37 Am. St. Rep. 811, 18 L. R. A. 421, 20 S. W. 744.

In Spanish law. Crime; a crime, offense, or delict. White, New Recop. bk. 2, tit. 19, c. 1, § 4.

8 Transfer of the body or substance; surrender of physical possession or control; tradition. Opposed, non-delivery. To "deliver" is to give or transfer anything to another person.

inter alia, to "disburden (a women) of the foetus"); Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1993) ("[D]elivery" means "the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membran

In practice. A term used by the clerk in court to every prisoner who is arraigned and pleads not guilty, to whom he wishes a good deliverance. In modern practice this is seldom use

received by the purchaser or by any carrier * * * for shipment to the purchaser' during March, 1942

Fr. To deliver. Britt. fol. 2 b.

the line-haul carrier making ultimate delivery.

The delivery contemplated by the contract was a transfer of the property into the power and possession of the consignees. The surrender of possession by the master must be attended

In the contract of sale. The act by which the seller of a thing transfers it to the hands or possession of the buyer or his agent, or places it within his control or power, or suff

A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which, delivery is essential, and delivery is not complete, without acceptance. It may then be rejected by the person to whom it is tendered;

An obligation for the return of goods or the payment of their value, taken into the possession of the law, as in seizures under revenue laws. Douglass v. Douglass, 21 Wall. (U. B.)

A bond given upon the seizure of goods (as under the revenue laws) conditioned for their restoration to the defendant, or the payment of their value, if so adjudged.

The delivery of a deed is essential to the transfer of the title. It is the final act, without which all other formalities are ineffectual. To constitute such delivery the grantor

if a deed be delivered to a stranger, for the use of the grantee, without any condition annexed, making it an escrow, it is a delivery to the grantee.

The execution and registration of a deed, and delivery of it to the register for that purpose, does not vest the title in the grantee.

The questions whether the instrument ever became a deed; whether it was delivered as an escrow, whose completion depended on subsequent events, which never happened, or was a compl

By this proceeding—called in the language of the country the delivery of juridical possession—the land granted was separated from the public domain, and what was previously a grant

An order addressed in England, by the owner of goods to a person holding them on his behalf, requesting him to deliver them to a person named in the order. Delivery orders are chie

The term “delivery order contract” means a contract for property that does not procure or specify a firm quantity of property (other than a minimum or maximum quantity) and that pr

The term “delivery sale” means any sale of cigarettes or smokeless tobacco to a consumer if— (A) the consumer submits the order for the sale by means of a telephone or other method

The term “delivery seller” means a person who makes a delivery sale.

the term “delivery system” means— (A) any apparatus, equipment, device, or means of delivery specifically designed to deliver or disseminate a biological agent, toxin, or vector; o

when these receipts were handed by the plaintiffs to the defendant's agent, who took them and issued a bill of lading to the plaintiffs, the constructive possession and the entire

the agriculture operation does not extend through the bulking plants but ends, as the District Court ruled, with the delivery of the tobacco at the receiving platform of the bulkin

In American law. A court of record of general criminal jurisdiction in and for the city and county of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania. COURT OF PALACE AT WRHST-

A writ to have one’s sanity inquired into.

In medical jurisprudence. A diseased state of the mind, in which persons believe things to exist which exist only, or in the degree they are conceived of only, in their own imagina

An abbreviation for "demise"; Jackson ex dem. Wood v. Wood, Jackson on the demise of Wood, etc. 6 Cow. (N. Y.) 586.

A writ to choose the grand assize.

See "Demesne."

Whether the matter is great or small, the laws do not vary.

Fr. Of bad reputation. Stat. Westm. 1, c. 12.

Of illness. See "De Malo Lecti." DE MALO LECTI (Law Lat.; Law Fr. de mal de lyt). Of infirmity or illness of (in) bed. Closely rendered, in old Scotch law, bed-evil (bedde-evill).

See Essoin de malo lecti .

Lat. [L. Fr. de mal de venue.'] Of infirmity or misfortune in coming. A species of essoin or excuse for non-appearance in court, formerly allowed a defendant in England, and more a

The term “demand” means— (I) the average seasonally adjusted annual rate of domestic mill consumption in the most recent 3 months for which data are available; plus (II) the larger

A legal obligation; a request made the doing of a specified thing.

A demand.