When a company handles activities outside of their predictions. Action can be taken in time. AKA exception policy.
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DEVICE
An Invention or contrivance; any result of desigu; as iu the phrase”gambling device,” which means a machine or contrivance of any kind for the playing ofan unlawful game of chance […]
DEVICE DEPENDENCE
The limits of software to keep it on one platform or hardware requirements . It cannot be moved easily and needs modifications to rewrite it.
DEVICE DRIVER
A program that lets computers and devices communicate. It is preinstalled in the device driver . An older model might require installation .
DEVICE INDEPENDENCE
Software that runs on all platforms with no changes.
DEVIL’S ADVOCATE
A party that challenges the flaws or strategy.
DEVIL’S HORNS
When managers focus on an undesirable trait. They do not see future and current success potential.
DEVISABLE
Capable of being devised. 1 Pow. Dev. 105; 2 Bl. Comm. 373.
DEVISAVIT VEL NON
In practice . The name of an issue sent out of a court of chancery , or one which exercises chancery jurisdiction , to a court of law , to […]
DEVISE
contingent or vested; that is, after the death of the testator. Contingent, when the vesting of any estate in the devisee is made to depend upon some future event, in […]
DEVISE AND BEQUEATH
a phrase used in wills showing the transfer of gifts and property.
DEVISE AND GRANT
a phrase in a will, that shows the transfer of title and property to an heir.
DEVISEE
The person to whom lands or other real property are devised or given by will. 1 Pow. Dev. c. 7.
DEVISOR
A giver of lands or real estate by will; the maker of a will of lands; a testator.
DEVOIR
Fr. Duty. It is used in the statute of 2 Rich. II. c. 3, in the sense of duties or customs.
DEVOLUTION
The transfer or transition from one person to another of a right,liability, title, estate, or office. Francisco v. Aguirre, 94 Cal. ISO, 29 Pac. 495; Owen v.Insurance Co., 50 Hun, […]
DEVOLUTIVE APPEAL
In the law of Louisiana, one which does not suspend the execution of the judgment appealed from. State v. Allen, 51 La. Ann. 1842, 20 South. 434.
DEVOLVE
To pass or be transferred from one person to another; to fall on, oraccrue to, one person as the successor of another; as, a title, right, office, liability. Theterm is […]
DEVTIi ON THE NECK
An instrument of torture, formerly used to extort confessions,etc. It was made of several Irons, which were fastened to the neck and legs,and wrenched together so as to break the […]
DEVY
L. Fr. Dies; deceases. Bend- loe, 5.
DEW POINT
The temperature that air is saturated with water vapor. If the temperature goes down than it condenes and falls as dew.
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION (DDC)
A system used in libraries to catalogue its contents. A number is given to a subject area and all items that are in that area are thusly classified. It was […]
DEWK
Dually employed with kids. A house with a married couple with kids. Refer to DENK.
DEXTANS
Lat In Roman law. A division of the as, consisting of ten unciw; tentwelfths, or five-sixths. 2 Bl. Comm. 402, note m.
DEXTRARIUS
One at the right hand of another.