Decretal Order
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In chancery practice. An order made by the court of chancery, In the nature of a decree, upon a motion or petition. An order in a chancery suit made on mo- ne tion or otherwise not at the regular hearing of a cause, and yet not of an interlocutory nature, but finally disposing of the cause, 80 far as a decree could then have disposed of it. Mozley & Whitley.
DECRETALES BONIFACII OCTA- VI
A supplemental collection of the canon law, published by Boniface VIII. in 1298, called, also, “Liber Sextus Deeretalium,” (Sixth Book of the Decretals.)