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DIVERSIFICATION

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To spread out assets in different places to minimize risk, e.g. not to put all one's eggs in one basket. … [Read more...]

DIVIDENDA

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In old records. An indenture ; one counterpart of an Indenture. … [Read more...]

DIVERSION

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A turning aside or altering the natural course of a thing. The term is chiefly applied to the unauthorized changing the course of a water-course to the prejudice of a lower proprietor. Merritt v. Parker, 1 N. J. Law, 460; Parker v. Griswold, 17 COnn. 299, 42 Am. Dec. 739. … [Read more...]

DIVERSITE DES COURTS

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A treatise on courts and their jurisdiction, written in French in the reign of Edward III. as is supposed, and by some attributed to Fitzherbert It was first printed in 1525, and again in 1534. Crabb, Eng. Law, 330, 483. … [Read more...]

DIVERSITY

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Comprised of many different types of things, such as races of people. In criminal pleading. A plea by the prisoner In bar of execution, alleging that he is not the same who was attainted, upon which a jury is Immediately impaneled to try the collateral issue thus raised, viz., the identity of the person, and not whether he is guilty or Innocent for that has been already … [Read more...]

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