The declaration of someone's death in absence of their physical dead body, corpse or skeletal remains. One who is presumed dead. "In absentia" is Latin for the term "in absence". Such a declaration may be made when a person is missing for an extended period of time and the evidence overwhelmingly supports the belief that the person has perished. For example, ticketed and … [Read more...] about DEATH IN ABSENTIA
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DYSPESIA
A state of the stomach in which its functions are disturbed, without the presence of other diseases, or when, if other diseases are present, they are of minor importance. Dungl. Med. Diet … [Read more...] about DYSPESIA
DYVOUR
Scotch law. A bankrupt. … [Read more...] about DYVOUR
DYVOURS HABIT
(Dyvour's Habit) Scotch law. A habit which debtors, who are set free on a cessio bonorum, are obliged to wear, unless in the summons and process of cessio, it be libeled, sustained, and proved that the bankruptcy proceeds from misfortune. And bankrupts are condemned to submit to the habit, even where no suspicion of fraud lies against them, if they have been dealers in an … [Read more...] about DYVOURS HABIT
DUTY OF LOYALTY
The legal requirement that a fiduciary (such as the board of directors of a corporation) must act in good faith to and in the best interests of the party that has placed trust in them, e.g. the shareholders. A show of loyalty. … [Read more...] about DUTY OF LOYALTY