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the decision is in favor of the plaintiff. Ersk. Inst. 4, 3, 5.—Decreet of valuation of teinds. A sentence of the court of sessions, (Who are now in the place of the commissioners for the valuation of teinds,) determining the extent and value of teinds. Bell. DECEEMENTUM MARIS. Lat In old English law. Decrease of the sea; the re ceding of the sea from the land. Callis, Sew ers, (53,) 65. See RELICTION. DECREPIT. This term designates a per son who is disabled, incapable, or incompe tent, either from physical or mental weak ness or defects, whether produced by age or other causes, to such an extent as to render the individual comparatively helpless in a personal conflict with one possessed of ordi nary health and strength. Hall v. State, 16 Tex. App. 11, 49 Am. Rep. 824. DECRETA. In the Roman law. Judi cial sentences given by the emperor as su preme judge. Deereta conciliorum non ligant ireges nostras. Moore, 906. The decrees of coun cils bind not our kings. DECRETAL ORDER. See DECBEE; OB DEB. DECRETALES BONEFACH OCTAVI. A supplemental collection of the canon law, published by Boniface VIII. in 1298, called, also, "Liber Sextus Decretalium," (Sixth Book of the Decretals.) DECRETAXES GREGORH NONI. The decretals of Gregory the Ninth. A collec tion of the laws of the church, published by order of Gregory IX. in 1227. It is compos ed of five books, subdivided into titles, and each title is divided into chapters. They are cited by using an X, (or extra;) thus "Cap. 8 X de Regulis Juris," etc. In ecclesiastical law. Letters of the pope, written at the suit or instance of one or more persons, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law, and possessing the force of law. The decre tals form the second part of the body of can on law. This is also the title of the second of the two great divisions of the canon law, the first being called the "Decree," (decretum.) DECRETO. In Spanish colonial law. An order emanating from some superior tribunal, promulgated in the name and by the au thority of the sovereign, in relation to eccle siastical matters. Schm. Civil Law, 93, note. DECRETUM. In the civil law. A spe cies of imperial constitution, being a judg ment or sentence given by the emperor upon DECRETAXS.

hearing of a cause, (quod imperator cog~ noscem decrevtt.) Inst 1, 2, 6. In canon law. An ecclesiastical law, in contradistinction to a secular law, (lex.) 1 Mackeld. Civil Law, p. 81, § 93, (Kaufmann's note.) DECRETUM GRATIANI. Gratian's de cree, or decretum. A collection of ecclesias tical law in three books or parts, made in the year 1151, by Gratian, a Benedictine monk of Bologna, being the oldest as well as the first in order of the collections which to gether form the body of the Roman canon law. 1 Bl. Comm. 82; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 67. DECROWNING. The act of depriving of a crown. DECRT. To cry down; to deprive of credit "The king may at any time decry or cry down any coin of the kingdom, and make it no longer current" 1 BL Comm. 278. DECURIO. Lat A decurion. In the provincial administration of the Roman em pire, the decurions were the chief men or official personages of the large towns. Taken as a body, the decurions of a city were charg ed with the entire control and administra tion of its internal affairs; having powers both magisterial and legislative. See 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 54. DEDBANA. In Saxon law. An actual homicide or manslaughter. DEDI. (Lat I have given.) A word used in deeds and other instruments of con veyance when such instruments were made in Latin, and anciently held to imply a war ranty of title. Deakins v. Hollis, 7 Gill & J. (Md.) 315. DEDI ET CONCESSI. I have given and granted. The operative words of conveyance in ancient charters of feoffment, and deeds of gift and grant; the English "given and granted" being still the most proper, though not the essential, words by which such con veyances are made. 2 Bl. Comm. 53, 316, 317; 1 Steph. Comm. 164, 177, 473, 474. To appropriate and set apart one's private property to some public use; as to make a private way public by acts evincing an intention to do so. DEDICATION. In real property law. An appropriation of land to some public use, made by the owner, and accepted for such use by or on behalf of the public; a delib erate appropriation of land by its owner for any general and public uses, reserving to himself no other rights than such as are com patible with the full exercise and enjoyment DEDICATE.