法律英语英释词汇简明手册（D~F）（FOR Preview of F4）

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Damages: the court’s estimated compensation in money for damage or injury sustained by the plaintiff in contract or tort.

Deadlock: a disagreement which cannot be settled.

Decree: a judicial decision or order of a court.

Deed: a written instrument, signed, and delivered, by which one person conveys land, tenements or interest in land to another.

Defamation: damaging the good name of a person or group.

Defamation: the publishing of a statement which tends to lower person in the estimation of right-thinking members of society.

Default: fail to perform. a duty, or to appear in a law court when required to do so, fail to pay a debt.

Delegated legislation: legislation made by some person or body under authority delegated by parliament under statute.

Devolution: transference of property from one person to another.

Discovery: pretrial procedures by which the parties to a lawsuit obtain information from other parties and form. potential witnesses.

Discretion: the reasonable exercise of a power or right to act in an official capacity.

Discrimination: the according of unequal treatment to persons or bodies in the same position.

Divestiture: in anti-trust law, the order of a court to a defendant, e.g. corporation, to rid itself of property, securities or other assets.

Doctrine: a first principle; a thing given.

Domicile: the place where a man has his true, fixed and permanent home and principal establishment.

Dossier: set of papers giving information about a person or event, especially a person’s record.

Draft: to make or write a preliminary version or outline for a bill.

Easement: a right in the owner of one parcel of land, by reason of such ownership, to use the land of another for a special purpose not inconsistent with a general property in the owner.

Elaborate: worked out with much care and in great detail.

Embezzlement: the fraudulent appropriation to own use of property lawfully in his possession.

Enjoin: to command or instruct with authority by a court either to a specific act or to refrain from doing a certain act.

Enrage: to make very angry.

Equitable: in accordance with the rules of equity.

Equity: a system of doctrines and procedures which developed side by side with the common law and statute law, having originated in the doctrines and procedures evolved by the Court of Chancery in its attempts to remedy some of the defects of common law.

Establish: to fix unalterably; to confirm; to create.

Estate: the total property owned by a descendent prior to the distribution of that property according to the terms of a will; one’s whole property.

Exempt: to free from a rule or obligation which applies to other.

Exploitation: taking unjust advantage of another for one’s own advantage or benefit.

Expropriation: a taking, the act of divesting oneself of that which was previously claimed as one’s own.

Fee: charge or payment for professional advice or services.

Felony: major serious crime, e.g. murder, armed robbery, arson, etc.

Fine: a sum of money imposed upon a defendant as a penalty for an act of wrongdoing.

Fine: monetary penalty payable on conviction.

Forum: a judicial tribunal; a place of litigation; a court of justice.