Berne Convention
The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works: an international convention of September 1886 that sets out ground rules for protection of copyright at national level; it has since been amended several times. Many nations are signatories to the Convention, including the UK and, more recently, the United States. See also TRIPS.

• deed of arrangement
• deed of covenant
• deed of family arrangement
• deed of gift
• deed of variation
• deed poll
• deemed
• deemed domicile
• deep seabed area
• de facto
• de facto carers
• de facto director
• defamation
• default
• default notice
• default summons
• defeasance
• defect
• defective equipment
• defective premises
• defective products
• defectum sanguinis
• defence
• defence statement
• defendant