defendant
The party that is sued in either civil lawsuite, or has violated criminal statute and now charged with a crime.

deportation
-an administrative procedure of permanent exclusion of a person from the USA against that person's will. If you have been deported, you can not re-enter the United States for at least five years. The country reserves the right to deport a person that ...

Derivative Citizenship
Citizenship conveyed to children through the naturalization of parents or, under certain circumstances, to foreign-born children adopted by U.S. citizen parents, provided certain conditions are met

discharge in bankruptcy
Generally it is an order given by the bankruptcy judge, at the conclusion of all legal steps in processing a bankrupt person's assets and debts, which forgives those remaining debts which cannot be paid, with certain exceptions.

Distributee
A distributee is a person entitled to take or share in the property of a decedent under the statutes governing descent and distribution.

dominant estate
dominant estate is the parcel of real property that has an easement over another piece of property. It is also called a dominant tenement.

donation
A gift made by either a person or a legal entity to benefit a third party. Usually it is for the benefit of a church, schools, educational institutions, theaters, hospitals. Donation may be given as money, or household items, or in the form of serv ...