Diminution
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
Omission; defect; incompleteness. Where the whole of a record is not properly or not ti-uly certified by an interior court to the court of review the party injured thereby may allege or " suggest" diminution of the record, and cause it to be rectified " — by means of a writ of certiorari, q. v.