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Definitive Sentence

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[L. Lat. diffinitiva sententia!] The final judgment, decree or sentence of an ecclesiastical court; the sentence by which a principal cause is determined, as distinguished from an interlocutory sentence, which is on some incident question arising from the principal cause.

3 Bl, Com, 101.

Hallifax Anal. b.

3, c. 9, num. 40.

Bract, fol.

405 b.