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A design professional’s lien is a legal right, or a claim that gives a security interest in property to a person who provides design services related to that property.

Under a destination contract, the seller promises to deliver specified goods to the buyer’s destination. The seller must confirm that the purchased goods get to the buyer’s destination. 

• contract law

Detinue is an action to recover the wrongful detention of goods or possessions.

[Last reviewed in August of 2022 by the Wex Definitions Team]

• tort law

Dilatory tactics are when a party to a lawsuit abuses the rules of procedure in order to delay the progress of legal proceedings.

Diplomatic immunity is a status granted to a diplomat that exempts them from the laws of a foreign jurisdiction. It must be noted that immunity is a privilege of the state that a diplomatic agent represents. As such, a person cannot allege breach of immunity if the sending state does not contest a violation. 

Diplomatic law is a field of international law concerning the practice of diplomacy, and the rights and obligations of state representatives on the territory of other states. The broad corpus of diplomatic law derives from one of the oldest principles of customary international law, diplomatic immunity, and 

• international law

Direct infringement is the unauthorized exercise of one of the exclusive rights granted to the owner of a patent, copyright or trademark. 

• Intellectual Property Law

Discretionary acts are not governed by regulations, but rather by persons in roles of authority who judge each specific case, which means an act (such as review by the court of a particular matter) is at the free choice or judgment of the court.

Disentail refers to the process of converting a fee tail into a fee simple. The majority of states have passed some form of disentailing statutes. 

• property

Disgorgement is a remedy requiring a party who profits from illegal or wrongful acts to give up any profits they made as a result of that illegal or wrongful conduct. The purpose of this remedy is to prevent unjust enrichment and make illegal conduct unprofitable.

• remedy