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de  plegiis  acquietandis  (dee  plee-jee-is  <<schwa>>-kwI-<<schwa>>-tan-dis),  n.[Law  Latin “for acquitting  or releasing  pledges”] Hist. A writ ordering repayment to a surety by a  principal who had failed to make a required payment that the surety then had to cover. [Blacks Law 8th]

de  plano  (dee  play-noh),  adv.  [Latin  “from  ground  level”]  1.Roman  law.  Informally;  in  a summary  manner.  •  The  praetor  would  administer  justice  de  plano  when  he  stood  on  the  same level with the parties instead of sitting on an elevated bench. 2.Hist. Clearly; manifestly, as in de bigamis. See DE BIGAMIS . 3.Hist. By collusion.…

de  plagis et  mahemio (dee  play-jis et m<<schwa>>-hee-mee-oh),  n.[Law Latin “of wounds and mayhem”] Hist. A type of criminal appeal used in cases of wounding and maiming. [Blacks Law 8th]

de placito (dee plas-<<schwa>>-toh), n.[Law Latin] Of a plea. • These words were used in a declaration  describing  the  particular  action  being  brought,  as  in  de  placito  debit  (“of  a  plea  of debt”). [Blacks Law 8th]

de     perambulatione     facienda     (dee     p<<schwa>>-ram-by<<schwa>>-lay-shee-oh-nee fay-shee-en-d<<schwa>>),  n.[Law  Latin  “for  making  perambulation”]  Hist.  A  writ  ordering  the sheriff  to  go  with  12  knights  of  the  county  to  settle  a  boundary  dispute  by  walking  about  to determine the proper boundary between adjacent towns or lordships. [Blacks Law 8th]

dependent state.See nonsovereign state under STATE. [Blacks Law 8th]

dependent  relative  revocation.A  common-law  doctrine  that  operates  to  undo  an  otherwise sufficient revocation of a will when there is evidence that the testator’s revocation was conditional rather than absolute.  • Typically, the  doctrine applies when a testator  has physically revoked  the will  and  believes that  a  new  will  is  valid,  although  this  belief  is  mistaken. …

dependent promise.See PROMISE. [Blacks Law 8th]

dependent coverage.See COVERAGE. [Blacks Law 8th]

dependent  intervening  cause.A  cause  of  an  accident  or  injury  that  occurs  between  the defendant’s behavior and the injurious result, but that does not change the defendant’s liability. See intervening  cause  under  CAUSE(1).  [Cases:  Criminal  Law    31;  Negligence    431.  C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 15, 46–49, 88, 93–94; Negligence §§ 202, 315.] [Blacks Law 8th]