Special Social Security benefits provided on the basis of retirement or disability benefits that assist minor or disabled children. … [Read more...] about DEPDENTS BENEFITS
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DEOR HEDGE
In old English law. The hedge inclosing a deer park. … [Read more...] about DEOR HEDGE
DEPECULATION
A robbing of the prince or commonwealth; an embezzling of the public treasure. … [Read more...] about DEPECULATION
DEPART
In pleading. To forsake or abandon the ground assumed in a former pleading, and assume a new one. See DEPARTURE. In maritime law. To leave a port; to be out of a port. To depart imports more than to sail, or set sail. A warranty in a policy that a vessel shall depart on or before a particular day is a warranty not only that she shall sail, but that she shall be out of the port … [Read more...] about DEPART
DEPENDENCY
A territory distinct from the country in which the supreme sovereign power resides, but belonging rightfully to It, and subject to the laws and regulations which the sovereign may think proper to prescribe U. S. v. The Nancy, 3 Wash. C. C. 286, Fed. Cas. No. 15,854. It differs from a colony, because it is not settled by the citizens of the sovereign or mother state; and from … [Read more...] about DEPENDENCY