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jury

to be used in felony cases in the early 1200s as the use of the trial by ordeal declined. The questions put to those early juries were usually questions of fact or mixed questions of fact and

mortgage life and disability insurance

or make monthly payments in the case of disability. The amount of coverage decreases as the principal balance declines. There are many different terms of coverage determining amounts of payments and when payments begin and end. Source:

nuisance

nuisance [Anglo-French nusaunce, from Old French nuire to harm, from Latin nocēre] : something (as an act, object, or practice) that invades or interferes with another's rights or interests (as the use or enjoyment of property)...

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order

order : an order to a broker to buy or sell a security when the price advances or declines to a designated level c : goods or items bought or sold [the was received in good condition]

question

of federal law see also federal question jurisdiction at jurisdiction po·lit·i·cal question : a question that the court declines to consider because it involves a political matter that is not justiciable without infringing on the powers of

Declinatory

Containing or involving a declination or refusal as of submission to a charge or sentence

Declinometer

An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle

Purpure

Purple represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon or from sinister chief to dexter base

Degenerate

Having become worse than ones kind or ones former state having declined in worth having lost in goodness deteriorated degraded unworthy base low

Enclitics

The art of declining and conjugating words

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