In Spanish colonial law. An order emanating from some superior tribunal, promulgated in the name and by the authority of the sovereign, in relation to ecclesiastical matters. Schm. Civil Law, 93, note. … [Read more...] about DECRETO
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DECREE ABSOLUTE
A final decision and order of a court after the condition of an interim order is met (or that of a Decree Nisi.) … [Read more...] about DECREE ABSOLUTE
DECRETUM
In the civil law. A species of imperial constitution, being a judgment or sentence given by the emperor upon hearing of a cause, (quod imperator coonoscens decrevit.) Inst. 1, 2, 6. In canon law. An ecclesiastical law, in contradistinction to a secular law, (lex.) 1 Mackeld. Civil Law, p. 81, … [Read more...] about DECRETUM
DECREE ARBITRAL
Scotch law. A decree made by arbitrators chosen by the parties; an award. 1 Bell's Com. 643. … [Read more...] about DECREE ARBITRAL
DECRETUM GRATIANI
Gratian's decree, or decretum. A collection of ecclesiastical law in three books or parts, made in the year 1151, by Gratian, a Benedictine monk of Bologna, being the oldest as well as the first in order of the collections which together form the body of the Roman canon law. 1 Bl. Comm. 82; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 67. … [Read more...] about DECRETUM GRATIANI