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district attorney
(encz) | district attorney,okresní návladní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
District attorney
(gcide) | District \Dis"trict\, n. [LL. districtus district, fr. L.
districtus, p. p. of distringere: cf. F. district. See
Distrain.]
1. (Feudal Law) The territory within which the lord has the
power of coercing and punishing.
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2. A division of territory; a defined portion of a state,
town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral,
or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial
district, land district, school district, etc.
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To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such
district not exceeding ten miles square. --The
Constitution
of the United
States.
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3. Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a
country; a tract.
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These districts which between the tropics lie.
--Blackstone.
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Congressional district. See under Congressional.
District attorney, the prosecuting officer of a district or
district court.
District court, a subordinate municipal, state, or United
States tribunal, having jurisdiction in certain cases
within a judicial district.
District judge, one who presides over a district court.
District school, a public school for the children within a
school district. [U.S.]
Syn: Division; circuit; quarter; province; tract; region;
country.
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district attorney
(wn) | district attorney
n 1: an official prosecutor for a judicial district [syn:
district attorney, DA] |
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district attorney
(encz) | district attorney,okresní návladní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
district attorney
(wn) | district attorney
n 1: an official prosecutor for a judicial district [syn:
district attorney, DA] |
DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEYS
(bouvier) | DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEYS. The Act of Congress of March 3, 1815, 2 Story L.
U. S. 1530, authorizes and directs the district attorneys of the United
States to appoint by warrant, an attorney as their substitute or deputy in
all cases when necessary to sue or prosecute for the United States, in any
of the state or county courts, by that act invested with certain
jurisdiction, within the sphere of whose jurisdiction the said district
attorneys do not themselves reside or practice; and the said substitute or
deputy shall be sworn or affirmed to the faithful execution of his duty.
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DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OF THE UNITED STATES
(bouvier) | DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OF THE UNITED STATES. There shall be appointed, in each
judicial district, a meet person, learned in the law, to act as attorney of
the United States in such district, who shall be sworn or affirmed to the
faithful execution of his office. Act of September 24, 1789, s. 35, 1
Story's Laws, 67.
2. His duty is to prosecute, in such district, all delinquents, for
crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States, and
all civil actions in which the United States shall be concerned, except in
the supreme court, in the district in which that court shall be holden. Ib.
3. Their salaries vary in different districts. Vide Gordon's Dig. art.
403. By the Act of March 3, 1815, 2 Story's L. U. S. 1530, district
attorneys are authorized to appoint deputies, in certain cases, to sue in
the state courts. See Deputy District Attorney.
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