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Decision
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DecisionPractice. A judgment given by a competent tribunal. The French lawyers call the opinions which they give on questions propounded to them, decisions.
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Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
Judgment
Practice. The decision or sentence of the law, given by a court of justice or other competent tribunal, as the result of proceedings instituted therein, for the redress of an injury.
Tribunal
An assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business.
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Decies tantum
English law. The name of an obsolete writ which formerly lay against a juror who had taken money for giving his verdict; called so, because it was sued out to recover from him ten times as much as he took.
Decimation
The punishment of every tenth soldier by lot, was, among the Romans, called decimation.
Decime
A French coin, of the value of a tenth part of a franc, or nearly two cents.
Decisum
Latin. Cut off, settled, decided; a decision, a precedent.
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Decem tales
Practice. In the English law this is a writ which gives to the sheriff apponere decem tales.
Decennary
English law. A town or tithing, consisting originally of ten families of freeholders.
Decies tantum
English law. The name of an obsolete writ which formerly lay against a juror who had taken money for giving his verdict; called so, because it was sued out to recover from him ten times as much as he took.
Decimation
The punishment of every tenth soldier by lot, was, among the Romans, called decimation.
Decime
A French coin, of the value of a tenth part of a franc, or nearly two cents.
Decision
Decisum
Latin. Cut off, settled, decided; a decision, a precedent.
Declarant
One who makes a declaration.
Declaration of intention
The act of an alien, who goes before a court of record, and in a forma manner declares that it is, bona fide, his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, whereof he may at the time be a citizen or subject.
Declaration of trust
The act by which an individual acknowledges that a property, the title of which he holds, does in fact belong to another, for whose use he holds the same. The instrument in which the acknowledgment is made, is also called a declaration of trust; but such a declaration is not always in writing, though it is highly proper it should be so.
Declaratory
Something which explains, or ascertains what before was uncertain or doubtful; as a declaratory statute, which is one passed to put an end to a doubt as to what the law is, and which declares what it is, and what it has been.
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Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
Judgment
Practice. The decision or sentence of the law, given by a court of justice or other competent tribunal, as the result of proceedings instituted therein, for the redress of an injury.
Tribunal
An assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business.
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Decies tantum
English law. The name of an obsolete writ which formerly lay against a juror who had taken money for giving his verdict; called so, because it was sued out to recover from him ten times as much as he took.
Decimation
The punishment of every tenth soldier by lot, was, among the Romans, called decimation.
Decime
A French coin, of the value of a tenth part of a franc, or nearly two cents.
Decisum
Latin. Cut off, settled, decided; a decision, a precedent.
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Decem tales
Practice. In the English law this is a writ which gives to the sheriff apponere decem tales.
Decennary
English law. A town or tithing, consisting originally of ten families of freeholders.
Decies tantum
English law. The name of an obsolete writ which formerly lay against a juror who had taken money for giving his verdict; called so, because it was sued out to recover from him ten times as much as he took.
Decimation
The punishment of every tenth soldier by lot, was, among the Romans, called decimation.
Decime
A French coin, of the value of a tenth part of a franc, or nearly two cents.
Decision
Decisum
Latin. Cut off, settled, decided; a decision, a precedent.
Declarant
One who makes a declaration.
Declaration of intention
The act of an alien, who goes before a court of record, and in a forma manner declares that it is, bona fide, his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, whereof he may at the time be a citizen or subject.
Declaration of trust
The act by which an individual acknowledges that a property, the title of which he holds, does in fact belong to another, for whose use he holds the same. The instrument in which the acknowledgment is made, is also called a declaration of trust; but such a declaration is not always in writing, though it is highly proper it should be so.
Declaratory
Something which explains, or ascertains what before was uncertain or doubtful; as a declaratory statute, which is one passed to put an end to a doubt as to what the law is, and which declares what it is, and what it has been.
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