- Damnum sine injuria – Damage without legal injury.
- Del credre agent – Is a mercantile agent who in consideration of extra remuneration called a del credre commission undertakes to indemnify his principle against loss arising from the failure of persons with whom he enters a contract.
- Dehors – other than, not including, or outside the scope of.
- De bonis asportatis – Of goods carried away.
- De bonis non administratis – Of goods not administered.
- De die in diem – From day to day.
- De facto – Existing in fact, however not officially accepted. (As a matter of fact).
- De jure – In accordance with the law.
- De novo – Starting afresh. (To make something anew.)
- Debile fundamentum fallit opus – Where there is a weak foundation, the work fails.
- Debita sequuntur personam debitoria – Debts follow the person of the debtor.
- Debitor non praesumitur donare – A debtor is not presumed to make a gift.
- Delegatus non potest delegate – A delegate cannot further delegate. A delegated power cannot be further delegated.
- Deminimis non curat lex – The law does not deal with trivial things.
- Denatio mortis causa – Gift because of death. (deathbed gift)
- Detinue – Tort of wrongfully holding goods that belong to someone else.
- Dies non – Day on which no legal business is transacted. E.g. Bank holiday, National holiday.
- Dies Dominicus non est juridicus – Sunday is not a day in law.
- Discretio est discernere per legem quid sit justum – Discretion is to discern through law what is just.
- Dispono – Convey legally.
- Dictum – Statement of law made by a judge in the course of the decision but not necessary to the decision itself.
- Doli incapax – Incapable of crime.
- Dominium – Ownership.
- Dubitante – Doubting the correctness of the decision.
- Duo non possunt in solido unam rem possidere – Two cannot possess one thing each in entirety.
