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DUE PROCESS OF LAW

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Law in its regular course of administration through courts of justice. … [Read more...]

DULY

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In due or proper form or manner; according to legal requirements. Regularly. Upon a proper foundation as distinguished from mere form. … [Read more...]

DUCES TECUM LICET LANGUIDUS

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(Bring with you, although sick.) In practice. An ancient writ now obsolete, directed to the sheriff, upon a return that he could not bring his prisoner without danger of death, he being adeo languid us, (so sick;) whereupon the court granted a habeas corpus in the nature of a duces tecum licet languidus. Cowell; Blount … [Read more...]

DUE-BILL

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A brief written acknowledgment of a debt. It is not made payable to order, like a promissory note. … [Read more...]

DRUNKARD

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He is a drunkard whose habit it is to get drunk; whose ebriety has become habitual. The terms "drunkard" and "habitual drunkard" mean the same thing. Com. v. Whitney, 5 Gray (Mass.) 85; Gourlay y. Gourlay, 16 R. I. 705, 10 Atl. 142. A "common" drunkard is defined by statute In some states as a person who has been convicted of drunkenness (or proved to have been drunk) a certain … [Read more...]

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