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DIRECT ATTACK

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A direct attack on a judgment or decree is an attempt for sufficient cause to have it annulled reversed vacated corrected declared void or enjoined in a proceeding instituted for that specific purpose such as an appeal writ of error bill of review or injunction to restrain its execution; distinguished from a collateral attack which is an attempt to impeach the validity or … [Read more...]

DIRIBITORES

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In Roman law. Officers who distributed ballots to the people, to be used in voting. Tayl. Civil Law, 192. … [Read more...]

DIRECT CAUSE

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An action or event that is directly responsible for a series of events occurring without any intervening action which would change or modify the series of events that occurred. … [Read more...]

DIRIMANT IMPEDIMENTS

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canon law. Those bars to a marriage, which, if consummated, render it null. They differ from prohibitive impediments. … [Read more...]

DIOCESE

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

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