Legal Term: DEDIMUS

Definition: practice. The name of a writ to commission private. persons to do some act in the place of a judge, as, to administer an oath of office to a justice of the peace, to examine witnesses, and the like. 4 Com. Dig. 319, 3 Com. Dig. 359, Danes Ab. Index, h. t. Rey, in his Institutions Judiciaires, de lAngleterre, tom. 2, p. 214, exposes the absurdity of the name given to this writ, he says it is applicable to every writ which emanates from the same authority, dedimus, we have given.

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