Design
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In the law of evidence. Purposs or intention, combined with plan, or implying a plan in the mind.
Burrill, Cire. Ey. 3dl.
As a term of art, the giving of a visible form to the conceptions of the mind, or invention.
4 Wash. C. C. 48.
Designatio justiciarioriim est a rego; juriscictio vero ordinaria a lege. 4 Inst, 74, The appointment of justices is by the king, but their ordinary jurisdiction by the law,