Definition of Decreet

1. n. The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.

Definition of Decreet

1. Noun. (Scotland legal) The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided. ¹

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Definition of Decreet

1. a court judgement in Scots law [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decreet

decreasingly
decreation
decreations
decree
decree absolute
decree arbitral
decree nisi
decreeable
decreed
decreeing
decreer
decreers
decrees
decrees absolute
decreest
decreet (current term)
decreet-arbitral
decreeth
decreets
decrement
decremental
decremental conduction
decrementation
decremented
decrementing
decrements
decreolization
decreolizations
decreolize
decreolized

Literary usage of Decreet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1862)
"Exceptions overruled JOSEPH D. decreet vs. AUGUSTINE HURT. The holder of a promissory note, being a member of a firm who are the first ..."

2. The Earldom of Mar in Sunshine and in Shade During Five Hundred Years: With by Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford (1882)
"That, again, nothing has taken place to deprive parties aggrieved by the decreet of their right to prosecute claims for higher precedency before the Court, ..."

3. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by House of Lords, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1832)
"The submission and decreet-arbitral founded upon are not valid and effectual ... The transaction to which the form of a submission and decreet-arbitral was ..."

4. Lectures on Conveyancing by Alexander Montgomerie Bell (1867)
"is given to three arbiters, or any two of them, when a difference arises, and two only subscribe.1 When a final decreet-arbitral, embracing the whole ..."

5. The Scots Revised Reports: Morison's Dictionary, 1 to 9424 (1908)
"2do, A decreet having followed upon the ticket; no compensation can be ... because, Imo, The decreet was in absence, and intrinsically null for being ..."

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