dedimusn.
/ˈdɛdɪməs/ Law.
A writ empowering one who is not a judge to do some act in place of a judge.
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society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > writ empowering person to act in judge's place
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1489–90 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 92 Afore Easter, send upp your pardons, wrytes of dedimus.
1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit vii. 13 He talk'd of nothing but..Writs of Error, Actions of Trover and Conversion, Trespasses, Precipes & Dedimus.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 119 He..found means to obtain a Dedimus as an acting justice of peace.
1800 J. Bentham Method of Census in Wks. (1843) X. 353/1 Acting justices..who have taken out their respective dedimuses.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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