Legal Term: DIMINUTION OF THE RECORD

Definition: practice. This phrase signifies that the record from an inferior court, sent up to a superior, is incomplete. When this is the case, the parties may suggest a diminution of the record, and pray a writ of/ certiorari to the justices of the court below to certify the whole record. Tidds Pr. 1109, 1 S. & R. 472, Co. Ent. 232, 8 Vin. Ab. 552, 1 Lillys Ab. 245, 1 Nels. Ab. 658, Cro. Jac. 597, Cro. Car. 91, Minor, R. 20, 4 Dev. R. 575, 1 Dey. & Bat. 382, 1 Munf. R. 119. Vide Certiorari. DIOCESE, eccl. law. The district over which a bishop exercises his spiritual functions. 1 B1. Com. 111.

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