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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A separate and distinct part of an instrument or writing comprising two or more particulars; one of several things presented as connected or forming a whole. In English ecclesiastical law. A complaint exhibited in the ecclesiastical court by way of libel. The different parts of a libel, responsive allegation, or counter allegation in the ecclesiastical courts.
3 Bl. Comm. 109.
In Scotch practice. A subject or matter; competent matter. "Article of dittay."
1 Broun, 62.
A "point of dittay."
1 Swint. 128, 129.