Decoction
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The operation of boiling certain ingredients in a fluid for the purpose of extracting the parts soluble at that temperature; the product of this operation. In a case in which the indictment charged the prisoner with having administered to a woman a decoction of a certain shrub called savin, it appeared that the prisoner had administered an infusion, and not a decoction. The prisoner's counsel insisted that he was entitled to an acquittal on the ground that the medicine was misdescribed; but it was held that infusion and decoction are ejusdem generis, and that the variance was immaterial.
3 Camp. 74, 75. DEC0CT0R.
In Roman Law. A bankrupt; a person who squandered the money of the state.
Calvinus, Lex. DEC0LLATI0.
Decollation; beheading.
D£C0NFES.
In French Law. A name formerly given to those persons who died without confession, whether they refused to confess or whether they were criminals to whom the sacrament was refused. Droit de Canon, par M. l'Abbe Andre; Dupin, Gloss, to Loisel's Institutes.