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Home Dictionary Name: demDem
Dem. E.g., Doe dem. Smith, Doe, on the demise of Smith. See EJECTMENT....
Fraus est cel are frau dem
Fraus est cel are frau dem. It is fraud to conceal fraud....
condemn
condemn 1 : to impose a penalty on ;esp : to sentence to death 2 : to adjudge unfit for use or consumption 3 : to declare convertible to public use under the right of eminent domain : take con·dem·nable [kən-dem-nə-bəl, -de-mə-] adj con·dem·na·tion [kÄ n-dem-nā-shən] n con·demn·er or con·dem·nor [kən-de-mər, -dem-nȯr] n ...
democracy
democracy pl: -cies 1 a : government by the people ;esp : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections 2 : a political unit that has a democratic government dem·o·crat·ic [de-mə-kra-tik] adj dem·o·crat·i·cal·ly adv ...
indemnify
indemnify -fied -fy·ing [Latin indemnis unharmed, from in- not + damnum damage] 1 : to secure against hurt, loss, or damage 2 : to compensate or reimburse for incurred hurt, loss, or damage in·dem·ni·fi·er n ...
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...
Other tenure
Other tenure, the expression 'other tenure' in the explanation should ordinarily be construed 'ejus-dem generis' with a service tenure owing to the reason that these service tenures usually are resumable and in case of resumable tenures the reversionary rights in the land remains in the grantee and therefore even if such resumable tenures are excluded from the grant, in substance the grant can be deemed to be of the whole village, District Board, Tanjore v. N.K. Noor Mohd., AIR 1953 SC 446. [T.N. Estates Land Act (1 of 1968), s. 3(d), Exp. I]...
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