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deliberation,n. The act of carefully considering issues and options before making a decision or  taking  some  action;  esp.,  the  process  by  which  a  jury  reaches  a  verdict,  as  by  analyzing, discussing,  and  weighing  the  evidence.  See  CONSIDERATION(3).  [Cases:  Criminal  Law 857(1);  Federal  Civil  Procedure    1974;  Trial    306.  C.J.S.  Criminal  Law  §  1372;  Trial  §§ 790–796,…

deliberate speed, with all.As quickly as the maintenance of law and order and the welfare of the people will allow, esp. with respect to the desegregation of public schools. Brown v. Board of Educ., 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686 (1954). [Cases: Schools    13(9). C.J.S. Civil Rights § 117.] [Blacks Law 8th]

deliberate-indifference instruction.See JEWELL INSTRUCTION. [Blacks Law 8th]

deliberate indifference.See INDIFFERENCE. [Blacks Law 8th]

deliberate  elicitation.Criminal  procedure.  The  purposeful  yet  covert  drawing  forth  of  an incriminating  response  (usu.  not  during  a  formal  interrogation)  from  a  suspect  whose  Sixth Amendment  right  to  counsel  has  attached  but  who  has  not  waived  that  right.  •  Deliberate elicitation  may  occur,  for  example,  when  a  police  officer  engages  an  arrested  suspect  in conversation   on  …

deliberate  (di-lib-[<<schwa>>]-rit),  adj.1.  Intentional;  premeditated;  fully  considered.  2. Unimpulsive; slow in deciding.  deliberate  (di-lib-<<schwa>>-rate), vb.  (Of  a  court,  jury,  etc.)  to  weigh  and  analyze all  the evidence after closing arguments <the jury deliberated for 12 hours before reaching a verdict>. [Blacks Law 8th]

de  libera  piscaria  (dee  lib-<<schwa>>r-<<schwa>>  pi-skair-ee-<<schwa>>),  n.[Law  Latin “of free fishery”] Hist. A writ allowing an exclusive right to fish on public navigable water. • This was a form of quod permittat. [Blacks Law 8th]

de  libera  falda  (dee  lib-<<schwa>>r-<<schwa>>  fal-d<<schwa>>  orfawl-d<<  schwa>>), n.[Law Latin “of free fold”] Hist. A writ allowing a free feeding, esp. of sheep on land. • This was a form of quod permittat. [Blacks Law 8th]

deleterious  (del-<<schwa>>-teer-ee-<<schwa>>s),  adj.1.  Poisonous  <deleterious  toxins>.2. Unwholesome; psychologically or physically harmful <deleterious influence>. [Blacks Law 8th]

de lege lata (dee lee-jee lay-t<<schwa>>). [Latin “from law passed”] Int’l law. 1. Existing law. 2. The principle that a court should decide based on actual law and not on how it thinks the law ought to be. Cf. DE LEGE FERENDA. [Blacks Law 8th]