Legal Definition and Related Resources of Deem

adjudge ; determine ; treat as if; to construe. The word, as used in statutes, usually implies an element of finality, but that meaning is not inflexible or invariable. See People v Miller, 368 N. Y.S.2d 788; Miller v Com., 2 S.E.2d343, 172 Va. 639.

verb

• account
• adjudge
• adopt an opinion
• assume
• be inclinedtothinkbe of the opinion
• be under the impression
• believe
• believe on consideration
• call
• conceive
• conclude
• consider
• decide
• determine
• embrace an opinion
• esteem
• feel
• form ajudgment
• form an opinion
• have an opinion
• have the impression
• hazard an opinion
• hold
• hold an opinion
• hold in belief
• imagine
• judge
• look upon
• opine
• perceive
• presume
• pronouncejudgment
• regard
• suppose
• surmise
• suspect
• take for
• take it to be
• think
• view as Associated Concepts: deemed advisable
• deemed to be in the best interests of the child

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English Spanish Translation of Deem

Estimar, Considerar, Juzgar

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Grammar

This term is a verb.

Etimology of Deem

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Old English deman “to judge, condemn, think, compute,” from Proto-Germanic *domjan, denominative of *domaz, from PIE root *dhe- “to set, put” (compare doom). Originally “to pronounce judgment” as well as “to form an opinion.” The two judges of the Isle of Man were called deemsters in 17c., a title formerly common throughout England and Scotland and preserved in the surname Dempster.