Dedicere
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [L. Fr. dedire.] In old pleading and practice. To deny.
Cro. Jac. 343.
Aut dedicit aut cognoscit; he either denies or acknowledges. Bract. fol.
214.
Si petens hoc dedicere non possit; if the demandant cannot deny this. Id. fol.
320 b. See Stat. Westm. 2, c. 9.