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Of or pertaining to the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.

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detention

Law; General law

The act of retaining a person or property in temporary custody while awaiting trial.

deterrence

Law; General law

Any law or legislation enacted has to be coupled with a penalty or punishment for non conformity thereto, which will act as a deterrent for breach thereof.

detinue

Law; General law

It is a form of action which lies in conversion for loss or destruction of goods, which a bailee (not the owner) has allowed to happen in breach of his duty.

devastavit

Law; General law

When a personal representative in accepting the office accepts the duties of the office, and becomes a trustee in the sense that he is personally liable for all the breaches of ...

dicta

Law; General law

A statement of law made by a judge in the course of a decision of the case, but not necessary to the decision of the case itself, is called dictum, and often as obiter dictum. ...

dictum

Law; General law

A statement of law made by a judge in the course of a decision of the case, but not necessary to the decision of the case itself, is called dictum, and often as obiter dictum. ...