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Data dictionary - A coded catalog of all data types listing data names and structures.

Database - A digital file consisting of a set of records containing data from a user defined domain. Each record contains fields having a specific structure. Two common organization schemes are "Hierarchical" and "relational".

Database Management System (DBMS) - Software which allows data attributes to be stored in files which are related (linked) to each other so as to reduce data redundancy, minimize storage and maximize searches.

Date of Issue - The date of the judgment or order on which the writ of execution was issued.

Date of Renewal - The date of a judgment or order that renews a writ of execution or maintenance order.

Date/Time Priority Search - A search result of a title record showing the priority of the interests as at the date and time they registered against the title.

De bonis non - of goods not administered" 

De-Activate - To make inactive by changing the status code on a table entry from active to inactive.

Debenture - A contract evidencing or acknowledging a debt which might, or might not have charging provisions relating to the grantor’s property. That is, the terms of the debenture are to be negotiated between the parties as in any contract.

Debenture holders - The mortgagee in a debenture. The creditors that hold a debenture mortgage, which is security for money loaned.

Debtor - The person or entity that owes a debt. 

Decedent - A deceased person. 

Decree absolute - The decree that finally dissolves a marriage.

Decree nisi - A provisional decree of divorce. Every decree of divorce is in the first instance a decree nisi, and no such decree shall be absolute until three months have elapsed from the granting of the decree and the court is satisfied that every right to appeal from the judgment granting the decree has been exhausted.

Dedicated Lands - Lands designated for public use as specified under a Section 104 Plan of The Land Titles Act in effect pre-implementation of the LAND Project.

Deed - Proof of ownership of land in a Registry System. 

Deeded land - The method of conveying land in a Registry System.

Deeds of trust - A transfer of legal title to property from the trust or to the trustee, for the purpose of placing the legal title with the trustee as security for the performance of certain obligations, monetary or otherwise.

Default (new) - A preset value for a code in the database that will be used if no value is entered for the code.

Default (old) - Failure to honor an agreement. 

Defendant - The person or entity against whom the plaintiff has commenced a court action.

Delineated - To depict in words or describe. 

Dependent Adult - A person with respect to whom an order has been made appointing a personal guardian or property guardian.

Deponent
1. A witness; one who gives information concerning some fact or facts known to him, under oath in a deposition.
2. One who testifies or makes oath to the truth of certain facts.

Deposit Account  - An account established in the old Land Titles System by frequent customers into which funds are deposited for payment of future services.

Deposit Account Holder - Those who have a deposit account in the old Land Titles System into which they have placed funds from which fees can be taken.

Deposition - The process of giving sworn evidence. 

Derivative - Using or taken from other sources; not original.

Derogation - A lessening or weakening (of power, authority, position, etc.).

Developer - In a condominium plan, means a person or entity who on the date that the plan is presented for registration is the registered owner of the lands included in the Plan.

Developer’s Caveat - A caveat that must be registered prior to the issuing of any condo unit titles on a phased condominium transform.

Devolves - To pass on to another or others. 

Discharge - The cancellation of a registered encumbrance or the instrument registered within the system that achieves the above act.

Discharge Interest - The act or document changing the status code of an interest to inactive.

Dissolve - The process of removing boundaries between adjacent parcels having the same values for a specified attribute.

Distribution routing option - The method of sending out an output (e.g., courier, Canada Post, fax, email).

District - The districts within the province maintained under the Old Paper-based System.

Docket - Another name for the General Record.

Document - A legal agreement.

Documentary evidences of title - Evidence furnished by written instruments, inscriptions or documents defining title or ownership of real property and admissible in a court or tribunal as proof of ownership of land or an interest in land; distinguished from oral or "viva voce" evidence).

Dominant Lands - The lands gaining benefit from a common law easement. 

Dominant Party - The party gaining benefit from an easement, who is from time to time also the owner of the dominant tenement.

Dominant Tenement (new) - The parcel benefiting from an easement.

Dominant Tenement (old) - The party benefiting from a restrictive covenant easement or caveat, or a party wall agreement.

Donee - Person(s) given power under a power of attorney.

Donor - Person(s) giving authority to another under a power of attorney.

Dower - At common law, the right of a wife on surviving her husband to a life estate in one third of the freehold estates of inheritance of which her deceased husband was solely seized at any time during the marriage and which her issue by him might possibly have inherited.

Dower -  is the estate that a wife has for her life in certain freehold estates of her deceased husband. Dower has been abrogated or abolished in most Canadian jurisdictions.

Dropdown menu - A type of user interface by which items, functions, or tasks are selected through the use of a mouse and clicking on the desired screen location.

Duly attested - To affirm as true; to sign one’s name as a witness to the execution of a document; to bear witness to.

Duplicate Certificate of Title - A duplicate copy of the original Title. Following implementation of the LAND System across the province, all duplicate certificates of title are deemed to be cancelled.