Dedimus
Dedimus in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims
Latin. We have given. See Dare. A commission to take testimony, the full name of which is dedimus potestatem, we have given power.
Note: This legal definition of Dedimus in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.
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Concept of “Dedimus”
Traditional meaning of dedimus in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) A commission to take testimony. Dedimus et concessimus: we have given and granted. Dedimus potestatem was an old English writ, issuing out of Chancery, empowering the persons named in it to perform certain judicial or ministerial acts; as to make an attorney, take oaths, take the acknowledgment of a fine, etc. ; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 351.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Dedimus”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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