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To permanent suspension an attorney's license and a prohibition to engage in the practice of law. Usually conducted by the state bar and enforced where attorney conduct rises to the level of moral turpitude and significant acts of dishonesty and violations of ethics. In England, to deprive a barrister permanently of the privileges, of his position; it is analogous to striking … [Read more...] about DISBAR

When a patient is officially released by a hospital. … [Read more...] about DISCHARGE OF PATIENT

The territorial extent of a bishop's jurisdiction. The circuit of every bishop's jurisdiction. Co. Litt. 94; 1 Bl. Comm. 111. … [Read more...] about DIOCESE

Evidence that clearly and directly relates the proof of an existence of a fact in court. This is as opposed to circumstantial evidence, which is the need to use indirect facts to establish what is likely to have occurred. That which applies immediately to the fadum probandum, without any intervening process; as, if A testifies he saw B inflict a mortal wound on C, of which he, … [Read more...] about DIRECT EVIDENCE

In canon law. Absolute bars to marriage, which would make It null ab initio. … [Read more...] about DIRIMENT IMPEDIMENTS