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A police officer who is given the duty to investigate a crime and apprehend the people responsible for its commission. … [Read more...] about DETECTIVE

government. That abuse of government, where the sovereign power is not divided, but united in the hands of a single man, whatever may be his official title. It is not, properly, a form of government. … [Read more...] about DESPOTISM

In the civil law. That condition of fact under which one can exercise his power over a corporeal thing at his pleasure, to the exclusion of all others. It forms the substance of possession in all Its varieties. Mackeld. Rom. Law, f 238. … [Read more...] about DETENTIO

L. Fr. Unreasonable. … [Read more...] about DESRENABLE

The act of retaining a person or property, and preventing the removal of such person or property. 2. The detention may be occasioned by accidents, as, the detention of a ship by calms, or by ice; or it may, be hostile, as the detention of persons or ships in a foreign country, by order of the government. In general, the detention of a ship does not change the nature of the … [Read more...] about DETENTION