| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Noun | 1. A writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge, as to examine a witness, etc.[Websters]. | |
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"Dedimus" is a common misspelling or typo for: tedious, devious, decimals, mediums, denims, deisms, edemas, bedims, tedium's, denim's. |
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Date "Dedimus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1668. (references) |
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Etymology:Dedimus \Ded"i*mus\, noun. [Latin expression dedimus we have given, from dare to give. So called because the writ began, Dedimus potestatem, etc.]. (references) |
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| Law | DEDIMUS, practice. The name of a writ to commission private. persons to do some act in the place of a judge; as, to administer an oath of office to a justice of the peace, to examine witnesses, and the like. 4 Com. Dig. 319; 3 Com. Dig. 359; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t. Rey, in his Institutions Judiciaires, de l'Angleterre, tom. 2, p. 214, exposes the absurdity of the name given to this writ; he says it is applicable to every writ which emanates from the same authority; dedimus, we have given. (references) | ||
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| Dedimus potestatem de attorno faciencdo | Law | DEDIMUS POTESTATEM DE ATTORNO FACIENCDO. 1. The name of a writ which was formerly issued by authority of the crown in England to authorize an attorney to appear for a defendant. 2. By statute of Westminster 2, 13 Edw. I. c. 10, all persons impleaded may make an attorney to sue for them in all pleas moved by or against them, in the superior courts there enumerated. 3 Mann. & Gran. 184, note. (references) | |
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