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Meaning of Divisum imperium
(Lat.) A divided empire or jurisdiction; a jurisdiction shared between two tribunals, or exercised by them alternately. This classic phrase is frequently applied in the books to the jurisdiction alternately exercised by the courts of common law and admiralty, between high and low water mark, where the sea ebbs and flows; the one having jurisdiction upon the water when it is full sea, and the other upon the land when it is an ebb. Finch, Law, bk, 2, c. 1, p. 78; 5 Coke, 107; 1 Bl. Comm. 110; Molloy de Jur. Mar. 231; 1 Kent, Comm. 366. It is applied, also, to the jurisdiction exercised by courts of common law and equity over the same subject. 4 Steph. Comm. 9.
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Concept of “Divisum Imperium”
Traditional meaning of divisum imperium in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) A divided empire; a jurisdiction shared by two tribunals; see 1 Kent, 366.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Divisum Imperium”, 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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