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

The district over which a bishop exercised his spiritual functions. … [Read more...] about DIOICHIA

The questioning of a witness by the party calling the witness in order to establish a foundation for a position or fact. During direct examination, the attorney who called the witness will ask specific questions which allow the witness to testify, in his or her own words, about something in order to establish the existence or non-existence of something. Leading questions may … [Read more...] about DIRECT EXAMINATION

(A) Employment: A physical, sensory or mental impairment that significantly affects the life of the person. Special anti-discrimination laws are in effect to protect employees with a disability. (B) Contract Law: The want of legal capacity to do a thing. 2. Persons may be under disability, 1. To make contracts. 2. To bring actions. 3. 1. Those who want understanding; as idiots, … [Read more...] about DISABILITY

In mining law. The line of declination of strata; the angle which measures the deviation of a mineralized vein or lode from the vertical plane; the slope or slant of a vein, away from the perpendicular, as It goes downward into the earth; distinguished from the "strike" of the vein, which is its extension in the horizontal plane, or its lengthwise trend or course with reference … [Read more...] about DIP