Law lexicon
Disclaim - To refuse a gift made in a will.
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Discovery - The name given pre-trial devices for obtaining facts and information about the case.
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Dismissal - The termination of a lawsuit.
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Disposition - The order of a juvenile court determining what is to be done with a minor already adjudged to be within the court's jurisdiction. In criminal cases, the settlement of a case.
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Dissent - To disagree. An appellate court opinion setting forth the minority view and outlining the disagreement of one or more judges with the decision of the majority.
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Dissolution - The termination; process of dissolving or winding up something.
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Diversity of citizenship - The condition when the party on one side of a lawsuit is a citizen of one state and the other party is a citizen of another state; such cases are under the jurisdiction of federal courts.
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Diversion - The process of removing some minor criminal, traffic, or juvenile cases from the full judicial process, on the condition that the accused undergo some sort of rehabilitation or make restitution for damages.
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Docket - An abstract or listing of all pleadings filed in a case; the book containing such entries; trial docket is a list of or calendar of cases to be tried in a certain term.
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Docket control - A system for keeping track of deadlines and court dates for both litigation and non-litigation matters.
Source: Jurist International.
