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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

robe

robe : the legal profession ;esp : the position of a judge usually used with the [[his]…decision to decline the "H. B. Zobel"]

Declinatory

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

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margin call

broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement caused by the decline in market prices of a security or commodity purchased on margin5

Declinometer

An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle

Degenerate

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

Degeneration

The act or state of growing worse or the state of having become worse decline degradation debasement degeneracy deterioration

Detrect

To refuse to decline

Evening

The latter part and close of the day and the beginning of darkness or night properly the decline of the day or of the sun

Gradual

descent or from one state to another regularly progressive slow as a gradual increase of knowledge a gradual decline

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