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dimidium (di-mid-ee-<<schwa>>m),  n.[Latin “half”] Hist. 1.Half; a half — as in  dimidium unius libratae (“half a pound”).2. An undivided half of something. [Blacks Law 8th]

dimidietas  (dim-<<schwa>>-dI-<<schwa>>-tas),  n.[Law  Latin]  Hist.  Half  of  something;  a moiety. [Blacks Law 8th]

dilution doctrine.Trademarks. The rule protecting a trademark from a deterioration in strength, as when a person seeks to use the mark for an unrelated product. [Blacks Law 8th]

Dilution Act.See FEDERAL TRADEMARK DILUTION ACT. [Blacks Law 8th]  

dilution.  1.  The  act  or  an  instance  of  diminishing  a  thing’s  strength  or  lessening  its  value. 2.Corporations. The reduction in the  monetary  value or  voting  power  of stock by increasing the total  number of  outstanding shares. 3.Constitutional law. The limitation  of  the effectiveness of a particular group’s vote by legislative reapportionment or political gerrymandering. •…

Dillon’s  rule.The  doctrine  that  a  unit  of  local  government  may  exercise  only  those  powers that the state expressly grants to it, the powers necessarily and fairly implied from that grant, and the powers that are indispensable to the existence of the unit of local government. • For the origins of this rule, see 1 John…

diligiatus (d<<schwa>>-lij-ee-ay-t<<schwa>>s), n.[fr. Latin dis- “apart” + ligius “under legal protection”] A person cast out of the law’s protection; an outlaw. [Blacks Law 8th]

diligent inquiry.A careful and good-faith probing to ascertain the truth of something. [Blacks Law 8th]

diligentia    (dil-<<schwa>>-jen-shee-<<schwa>>),    n.[Latin]    Roman    law.    Carefulness; diligence. • The failure to exercise diligentia might make a person liable if contractually obliged to look   after   another’s   interests,   or   it   might   result   in   tort   liability.   See   DILIGENCE.   Cf. “The  texts  distinguish  two  standards  of  diligence,  a  higher  and  a  lower.  The  higher  is  the diligence which the…

diligent,adj. Careful; attentive; persistent in doing something. [Blacks Law 8th]