Example sentences from the Web for decreet

• This precedence had been assigned to it by the Decreet of Ranking , and assigns to it an origin in 1404 (or, as some say, 1395).

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 6|Various

• But it went, he said, just like a decreet in absence, and was lost for want of a contradictor.

  Red Gauntlet|Sir Walter Scott

• The grounds of reduction of a decreet arbitral are “corruption,” “bribery,” “false hold” (Scots Act of Regulations 1695, s. 25).

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4|Various

• Decreet arbitral is a Scottish phrase for the award of an arbitrator.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10|Various

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