legal education and practice

A dissenting opinion refers to an opinion written by an appellate judge or Supreme Court Justice who disagrees with the majority opinion in a given case. A party who writes a dissenting opinion is said to dissent. 

Dissolution is the act of bringing an end or termination of a legal relationship between two parties, such as a partnership, contract or marriage.   

• llcs-corporations-partnerships

District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) is a U.S.

Diversity jurisdiction refers to one way a federal court can obtain subject matter jurisdiction over a given case (the other method being federal question jurisdiction). Diversity jurisdiction is codified in Title 28, Section 13

• civil procedure
• Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
• diversity jurisdiction
• subject matter jurisdiction

Diversity of citizenship refers to when there is no common state citizenship between the plaintiffs and defendants in a suit. In other words, all parties on one side of the controversy are citizens of different states from all parties on the opposing side.

Doctor-patient privilege, also known as physician-patient privilege, refers to a confidential communication between the doctor and the patient that receives protection from disclosure.

A doctrine is a single important rule, a set of rules, a theory, or a principle that is widely followed in a field of law. It is formed via the continuous application of legal precedents. Calling something a doctrine usually means at least one of two things: that it is very important to a field of law, or that it provides a comprehensive way to resolve a certain type of legal dispute.

Under Rule 106 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, when an incomplete writing or recorded statement is introduced in a trial by one party, the adverse party may require the introduction of any other parts or any other writing or recorded statement which ought, in fairness, to be considered contemporaneously with the writing or recorded statement originally

• evidence

The doctrine of discovery refers to a principle in public international law under which, when a nation “discovers” land, it directly acquires rights on that land. This doctrine arose when the European nations discovered non-European lands, and therefore acquired special rights, such as property and sovereignty rights, on those lands.

The doctrine of integration of wills is a legal theory that says that since wills are multi-page documents, they do not have to be signed or initialed on every page.  Each page is regarded as part of single integrated document, so long as all pages are all present at the same time and the testator intended all of the separate pages to be part of same will.

• trusts and estates