decreet
/ (dɪˈkriːt) /
Scots law the final judgment or sentence of a court
Origin of decreet
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How to use decreet in a sentence
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).
But it went, he said, just like a decreet in absence, and was lost for want of a contradictor.
Red Gauntlet | Sir Walter ScottWhey they sayn ot King Harry hon decreet ot we're to ha' naw more monks or friars i' aw Englondshiar.
The Lancashire Witches | William Harrison AinsworthOh, what hire and how many worlds would many then give to have a favourable decreet of the Judge!
Letters of Samuel Rutherford | Samuel RutherfordThe grounds of reduction of a decreet arbitral are “corruption,” “bribery,” “false hold” (Scots Act of Regulations 1695, s. 25).
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