A building or structure which has no walls in common with another building or structure. … [Read more...] about DETACHED
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DESERTION OF SEAMEN
contracts. The abandonment, by a sailor, of a ship or vessel, in which he engaged to perform a voyage, before the expiration of his time, and without leave. 2. Desertion, without just cause, renders the sailor liable, on his shipping articles, for damages, and will, besides, work a forfeiture of his wages previously earned. 3 Kent, Com. 155. It has been decided, in England, … [Read more...] about DESERTION OF SEAMEN
DESHONORA
In Spanish law. Dishonor ; injury; slander. Las Partidas. pt 7, tit. 9, L 1, 6. … [Read more...] about DESHONORA
DESIGN
In the law of evidence. Purpose or intention, combined with plan, or implying a plan in the mind. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 331; State v. Grant, 86 Iowa, 216, 53 N. W. 120; Ernest v. State, 20 Fla. 388; Hogan v. State, 36 Wis. 226. As a term of art,'the giving of a visible form to the conceptions of the mind, or invention. Binns v. Woodruff, 4 Wash. C. C. 48, Fed. Cas. No. 1,424. In … [Read more...] about DESIGN
DESAMORTIZACION
In Mexican law. The desamortizacion of property is to take it out of mortmain, (dead hands;) that is, to unloose it from the grasp, as it were, of ecclesiastical or civil corporations. The term has no equivalent in English. Hall, Mex. Law, … [Read more...] about DESAMORTIZACION