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In English ecclesiastical law. The taking away from a clergyman his benefice or other spiritual promotion or dignity, either by sentence declaratory in the proper court for fit and sufficient causes or in pursuance of divers penal statutes which declare the benefice void for some nonfeasance or neglect, or some malfeasance or crime. 3 Steph. Comm. 87, 88; Burn, Ecc Law, tit … [Read more...] about DEPRIVATION

Coming from another; taken from something preceding, secondary; as derivative title, which is that acquired from another person. There is considerable difference between an original and a derivative title. When the acquisition is original, the right thus acquired to the thing becomes property, which must be unqualified and unlimited, and since no one but the occupant has any … [Read more...] about DERIVATIVE

To take a right or property away from a person without the Constitutional right to having a hearing in court and due process of the law. … [Read more...] about DEPRIVATION WITHOUT DUE PROCESS

A class action lawsuit that is brought for a wrongful act against a corporation. … [Read more...] about DERIVATIVE ACTION

In a constitutional provision that no person shall be "deprived of his property" without due process of law, this word is equivalent to the term "take," and denotes a taking altogether, a seizure, a direct appropriation, dispossession of the owner. Sharpless v. Philadelphia, 21 Pa. 167, 59 Am. Dec. 759; Wynehamer v. People, 13 N. Y. 467; Munn v. People, 69 111. 88; Grant v. … [Read more...] about DEPRIVE