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‖ dedimus Law.|ˈdɛdɪməs|
[From the words of the writ, dedimus potestatem, Lat. ‘we have given the power’.]
A writ empowering one who is not a judge to do some act in place of a judge.
1489–90Plumpton Corr. 92 Afore Easter, send upp your pardons, wrytes of dedimus. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull i. vii, He talks of nothing but..Writs of Error, Actions of Trover and Conversion, Trespasses, Precipes et Dedimus. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. II. 26 June, He..found means to obtain a Dedimus as an acting justice of peace. 1800Bentham Method of Census Wks. (1843) X. 353/1 Acting justices..who have taken out their respective dedimuses. |