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Contracts that are based upon the financial markets and dealing with the fluctuating value of assets, e.g. stocks, bonds. … [Read more...] about DERIVATIVES

An officer appointed by the attorney general, who is to hold his office during the pleasure of the latter, and whose duty it is to perform, within a specified district, the duties of the attorney general. He must be a member of the bar. In Pennsylvania, by an act of assembly, passed May 3, 1850, district attorneys are elected by the people, who are required to perform the … [Read more...] about DEPUTY OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

civil law. The partial abrogation of a law; to derogate from a law is to enact something which is contrary to it; to abrogate a law is' to abolish it entirely. Dig. lib. 50, t. 17, 1. 102. See Abrogation. The partial repeal or abolishing of a law, as by a subsequent act which limits its scope or impairs its utility and force. Distinguished from abrogation, which means the … [Read more...] about DEROGATION

Seems to mean, literally, to confound and disorder, or to turn out of course, or displace; as deraignment or departure out of religion, in St. 31 Hen. VIII. c. 6. In the common law, the word is used generally In the sense of to prove; viz., to deraign a right deraign the warranty, etc. Glanv. lib. 2, c. 6; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 146. Perhaps this word "deraign," and the word … [Read more...] about DERAIGN

Denigrating. Disparaging words. Statements speaking ill of another. … [Read more...] about DEROGATORY