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when the execution of an oil and gas lease is followed by production of oil, the bonus and royalties paid to the lessor both involve at least some return of his capital investment

The purpose of the depletion deduction is to permit the owner of a capital interest in mineral in place to make a tax-free recovery of that depleting capital asset.

In this section, the term "deployment" means the movement or mobilization of a servicemember to a location for a period of longer than 60 days and not longer than 540 day

The term "Deployment Locations Map" means the mapping tool required to be established under subsection (b).

2. 2. In old English law. To appoint, fix, or designate.

In Scotch practice. To depose; to make oath in writing.

A writ to remove a cause to a superior court.

A writ to place the court seal on an exception taken to a ruling.

One who gives information, on oath or affirmation, respecting some facts known to him, before a magistrate; strictly, he who makes a deposition; but sometimes used for "affiant."

In old Scotch practice. A deponent. 3 How. St. Tr. 695.

I. In old English law. To put down or away; to pull down; to remove; to depose; to state under oath. In the civil law. To put or lay down; to deposit; to entrust to another to keep

In old English law. The crime of destroying, ravaging, or laying waste a country. 2 Hale, P. C. 333; 4 Bl. Comm. 373.

In old English law. A species of waste, by which the population of the kingdom was diminished. Depopulation of houses was a public offense. 12 Coke, 30, 31. DEPORTATIO (Lat.) In th

a person who has been found to be deportable by an immigration judge, or who admits his deportability upon questioning by official agents.

Lat In the civil law. A kind of banishment, where a condemned person was sent or carried away to some foreign country, usually to an island, (in insula m deportatur,) and thus toke

the moving of someone away from the United States, after his exclusion or expulsion.

It is admitted that sovereign states have inherent power to deport aliens, and seemingly that Congress is not deprived of this power by the Constitution of the United States.

To deprive an individual of a public employment or office against his will. Wolfflus, Inst. § 1063. The term is usually applied to the deprivation of all authority of a sovereign.

the unpaid balance of money or its equivalent received by a bank in the usual course of business and for which it has given or is obligated to give credit to a commercial, checking

An account of sums lodged with a bank not to be drawn upon by checks, and usually not to be withdrawn except after a fixed notice.

One with whom anything is deposited (see "Deposit") or lodged In trust; as "depository" is the place where it is put. The obligation on the part of the depositary is that he keep t

The term “depositary bank” means— (i) the first bank to which a check is transferred, even if such bank is also the paying bank or the payee; or (ii) a bank to which a check is tra

In Scotch law. Deposit or depositum, the species of bailment so called. Bell.

The term “deposit broker” means— (A) any person engaged in the business of placing deposits, or facilitating the placement of deposits, of third parties with insured depository ins

A company whose business is the safe-keeping of securities or other valuables deposited in boxes or safes in its building which are leased to the depositors.

The term “deposit insurance” refers to the expenses of the Federal deposit insurance agencies, and other Federal agencies supervising insured depository institutions, resulting fro

The term “Deposit Insurance Fund” means the Deposit Insurance Fund established under section 1821(a)(4) of this title .

I. In old English law. A deposition; the written testimony of a witness. In the civil law. The testimony of a witness.

The testimony of a witness reduced to writing, in due form of law, by virtue of a commission or other authority of a competent tribunal, or according to the provisions of some stat

we direct, on our own authority, a rule to be entered for taking the depositions of infirm witnesses de bene esse; to be read in evidence upon the trial, in case of death, or inabi

In Spanish law. A real contract by which one person confides to the custody of another an object on the condition that it shall be returned to him whenever he shall require it.

A method of pledging real property as security

A pledge of land as security by giving the muniments

He who makes a deposit. DEPOSITUM (Lat. from deponere, to deposit). In the civil and common law. A naked bailment of goods, to be kept for the bailor without reward, and to be retu

The place where a deposit (q. v.) is placed and kept United States depositories. Banks selected and designated to receive deposits of the public funds of the United States are so c

The term “depository check” means any cashier's check, certified check, teller's check, and any other functionally equivalent instrument as determined by the Board.

the term "depository holding company" means a bank holding company as defined in section 1841(a) of this title, a company which would be a bank holding company as defined

The provisions of the constitution or law of any State expressly limiting the rate or amount of interest which may be charged, taken, received, or reserved shall not apply to any d

The term “depository institution holding company” means a bank holding company or a savings and loan holding company. / the term “depository institution holding company” includes a

The term “depository tax” means any tax if the Secretary is authorized to require deposits of such tax.

The term “deposit placement network” means a network in which an insured depository institution participates, together with other insured depository institutions, for the processin

at the time a customer delivers a sum of money either to the armored truck or the stationary receptacle, the bank has, for all purposes contemplated by Congress in § 36(f), receive

All the moneys received by the bank, whether for safe-keeping or for investment, are deposits within the meaning of their by-laws, and within the very words of their charter.

The term “deposit-taking activity” means— (A) the acceptance of deposits, maintenance of deposit accounts, or the provision of services related to the acceptance of deposits or the

A gratuitous bailment terminable at the will of the bailor.

Writ of post disseisin. A writ which lay for him who, having recovered lands or tenements by praecipe quod reddat, on default, or reddition, was again disseised by the former disse

Writ of post disseisin. A writ which lay for him who, having recovered lands or tenements by præ-cipe quod reddat, on default or reddition, was again disseised by the former dissei

The term “depot” means a centralized commodity management system through which covered drugs procured by an agency of the Federal Government are— (A) received, stored, and delivere

In this chapter, the term “depot-level maintenance and repair” means (except as provided in subsection (b)) material maintenance or repair requiring the overhaul, upgrading, or reb

Of the king’s prerogative, a statute of Edward II.

Of the present; in the present tense. See "Per Verba de Praesenti." DE PROPRIETATE PROBANDA (Lat. for proving property). A writ which issues in a case of replevin, when the defenda

To defame; vilify; exhibit contempt for. In England, depraving the with fine and imprisonment. Steph. Crim. Dig. 99.

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “depreciable farm property” means property of a character subject to the allowance for depreciation which is to be used in a trade or busin

The term "depreciable period" means, with respect to qualified property of a taxpayer, the period beginning on the date the property was first placed in service by the ta

The term “depreciable personal property” means any personal property if the adjusted basis of such property includes depreciation adjustments.

For purposes of this section, the term “depreciable property” means any property of a character subject to the allowance for depreciation, but only if a basis reduction under subse

the expense occasioned by the using up of physical property employed as fixed capital; current maintenance, as the expense occasioned in keeping the physical property in the condit

The term “depreciation adjustments” means, in respect of any property, all adjustments attributable to periods after December 31, 1963, reflected in the adjusted basis of such prop

The term “depreciation allowances” means the depreciation deductions allowable under section 167 to the possession corporation.

The term “depreciation deductions” means any deductions for depreciation or amortization or any other deduction allowable under any provision of this chapter which treats an otherw

the act of plundering; a robbing; a pillaging

The term “depressant or stimulant substance” means— (A) a drug which contains any quantity of barbituric acid or any of the salts of barbituric acid; or (B) a drug which contains a

In this section, the term “depressed communities” means rural and urban communities that are relatively depressed, in terms of age of housing, extent of poverty, growth of per capi

In ecclesiastical law. A censure by which a clergyman is deprived of his parsonage, vicarage, or other ecclesiastical promotion or dignity. See Ayliffe, Par. 206; 1 Bl. Comm. 393.

Referring to property taken Mayor of Philadelphia, 21 Pa. 167, 59 Am. Dec. 759. The constitution contains no definition of this word "deprive" as used in the Fourteenth Amendment.

A writ proceeding out of chancery and ordering the judges of any court to proceed to judgment 3 Bla. Com. 109. DE PROPRIETATE PROBANDA (Lat for proving property). A writ which issu

Breve. L. Lat. Writ for proceeding in an assise. A writ by which the justices of assise were commanded to proceed in an assise, where the proceedings had been stayed. Reg. Orig. 22

A writ to compel the sheriff to inquire into the title of distrained goods.

Lat. Of or concerning protections. The title of a statute passed in the d3d year of Edward I., to prevent some of the evil consequences attending the privileges given by writs of p

Breve. Lat. Writ of protection. Reg, Orig. 25, 26. See Protection.

The statute 17 Edw. I., St. 1, c. 9, defining the prerogatives of the crown on certain subjects, but especially directing that the king shall have ward of the lands of idiots, taki

Of the present; in the present tense. See Per Verba de Præsenti.

Since.

Lat. In old English law. To appoint, ^x^ or designate. Si lociu fuerit qui deputatus sit ad aliquem usum; if it be a place which is designated for any use. Bract, fol. 210 b. Id. f

To appoint or designate for a particular purpose. Now applied to persons only, but anciently to places, v. Deputare; Deputy.

To appoint a deputy; to appoint or commission one to act as deputy to an officer. In a general sense, the term is descriptive of empowering one person to act for another in any cap

One authorized by an officer to exercise the office or right which the officer possesses, for and in place of the latter. A deputy differs from an assignee in that an assignee has

The terms “Commissioner” and “Deputy Commissioner” mean the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization and a Deputy Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, respectively

The deputy of a lord lieutenant of a county in England.

The term “deputy program manager” means the person who has authority to act on behalf of the program manager in the absence of the program manager.

the term “Deputy Secretary” means the Deputy Secretary of Education;

See Deputy. -High sheriff. One holding the office of sheriff, as distinguished from his deputies or assistants or under sheriffs.

A steward of a manor may depute or authorize another to hold a court; and the acts done in a court so holden will be as legal as if the court had been holden by the chief steward i

De kes en sea. L. Fr. From which time until now. Kelham.

A writ to secure for a widow her quarantine. See 12 Or. 203, 6 Pac. 682.

From which time until now.

Of which.

An ancient writ of entry.

In equity. De jure stricto, nihil possum vendicare, de œquitate tamen, nullo modo hoc obtinet; In strict law, I can claim nothing, but in equity this by no means obtains. Fleta, 11

or DE QUIBUS. Of which. Formal words in the simple writ of entry, from which it was called a writ of entry "in the quo," or "in the quibus." 3 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 33. DE QUOTA L

Of which. Formal words in the simple writ of entry, from which it was called a writ of entry "in the quo," or "in the quibus." 3 Reeve, Eng. Law, 33.

From a certain person unknown.

An agreement for a contingent fee.

Of which.

I. I. In old English law. To be discharged from giving gage or pledge.

DEREYN, or DEREINE (Law Lat. dera Uonare, dirationare, or disrationare; Law Fr. dereiner, derener, disreigner, disrener, contra for deraisner or deraisoner). In old English law. To

A writ for a guardian for the abduction of his ward.

Of the ravishment of maids. The name of an appeal formerly in use in England in cases of rape. Bracton, fol. 147; 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 38. DE RATIONABl Ll PARTE BONORUM (Lat. o

Of the ravishment of maids. The name of an appeal formerly in use in England in cases of rape. Bract fol. 147; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 38.

Writ for fixing reasonable boundaries. A writ which lay to settle the boundaries between the lands of persons in different towns, where one complained of encroachment. Reg. Orig. 1