In its most proper signification, is the destruction of the people of a country or place. This word is, however, taken rather in a passive than an active one; we say depopulation, to designate a diminution of inhabitants, arising either from violent causes, or the want of multiplication. Vide 12 Co. 30. … [Read more...] about DEPOPULATION
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DEPRECIATE
An accounting term: The recognition of the deterioration of an asset as a result of natural wear and tear by reducing the value of an asset annually on the books over the course of its useful life. See depreciation. … [Read more...] about DEPRECIATE
DEPORTATIO
Lat. In the civil law. A kind of banishment, where a condemned person was sent or carried away to some foreign country, usually to an island, (in insulam deportatur,) and thus taken out of the number of Roman citizens. … [Read more...] about DEPORTATIO
DEPRECIATED COST
The amount of depreciation taken for an asset during an accounting period. … [Read more...] about DEPRECIATED COST
DEPORTATION
See also removal. civil law. Among the Romans a perpetual banishment, depriving the banished of his rights as a citizen; it differed from relegation and exile.Banishment to a foreign country, attended with confiscation of property and deprivation of civil rights. A punishment derived from the deportatio (q. v.) of the Roman law, and still In use in France. In Roman law. A … [Read more...] about DEPORTATION