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direct charge-off accounting method.See ACCOUNTING METHOD. [Blacks Law 8th]

direct cause.See proximate cause under CAUSE(1). [Blacks Law 8th]

direct beneficiary.See intended beneficiary under BENEFICIARY. [Blacks Law 8th]

direct attack. 1. An attack on a judgment made in the same proceeding as the one in which the judgment  was  entered; specif.,  the  taking  of  proceedings  in  the  action  in  which  a  judgment  has been rendered to have the judgment vacated or reversed or modified by appropriate proceedings in either the trial court or…

direct appeal.See APPEAL. [Blacks Law 8th]

direct and proximate cause.See proximate cause under CAUSE(1). [Blacks Law 8th]

direct aggression.See AGGRESSION. [Blacks Law 8th]

direct affinity.See AFFINITY. [Blacks Law 8th]

direct adoption.See private adoption under ADOPTION. [Blacks Law 8th]

direct-action  statute.A  statute  that  grants  an  injured  party  direct  standing  to  sue  an  insurer instead  of  the  insured  tortfeasor.  •  Under  Rhode  Island’s  direct-action  statute,  for  example,  an injured party may bring a direct action against an insurer when good-faith efforts to serve process on  the  insured  are  unsuccessful.  These  statutes  exist  in  several  states, …