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dual-residential parent.See PARENT. [Blacks Law 8th]

dual-purpose fund.See dual fund under MUTUAL FUND. [Blacks Law 8th]

dual-purpose  doctrine.The principle that an  employer is liable for an employee’s injury that occurs  during  a  business  trip  even  though  the  trip  also  serves  a  personal  purpose.  Cf. DUAL-CAPACITY DOCTRINE. [Cases: Master and Servant    302(2, 6); Workers’ Compensation 661.  C.J.S. Employer–Employee  Relationship  §§  204–217,  221–223;  Workmen’s  Compensation §§ 401–402.] [Blacks Law 8th]

dual-prosecution rule.The principle that the federal government and a state government may both  prosecute  a  defendant  for  the  same  offense  because  both  governments  are  separate  and distinct entities. See DUAL-SOVEREIGNTY DOCTRINE . [Cases: Double Jeopardy    186. C.J.S. Criminal Law § 258.] [Blacks Law 8th]

dual-priorities rule.The principle that partnership creditors have priority for partnership assets and  that  individual  creditors  have  priority  for  a  partner’s  personal  assets.  •  This  rule  has  been abandoned  by  the  bankruptcy  laws  and  the  Revised  Uniform  Partnership  Act.  The  Bankruptcy Code  now  allows  partnership  creditors  access  to  all  assets  of  bankrupt  partners,  not  just  those…

dual-persona  doctrine  (d[y]oo-<<schwa>>l  p<<schwa>>r-soh-n<<schwa>>).  The  principle that  makes an  employer  (who  is  normally  shielded  from  tort  liability  by  workers’-compensation laws)  liable  in  tort  to  an  employee  if  the  liability  stems  from  a  second  persona  unrelated  to  the employer’s status as an employer. [Cases: Workers’ Compensation    2162.] [Blacks Law 8th]

dual listing.See LISTING(2). [Blacks Law 8th]

duality of art.Copyright. The twofold nature of applied art as both functional and aesthetic. • The  United States takes a  duality-of-art approach to  copyright,  protecting applied art only  when the item could stand alone as an identifiable work of art even if it did not perform the function it was designed to do. — Also…

dual inheritance.See INHERITANCE. [Blacks Law 8th]

dual fund.See MUTUAL FUND. [Blacks Law 8th]