Diespacis
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat.
In old English law
Days of peace. According to Sir Henry Spelman, the Saxons and Normans divided the year between God [or the church] and the king; calling those days and parts of time wmch were assigned to the former, dies pads ecclesice^ (days of the peace of the church,) and the residue dies pads reffis, (days of the king's peace.) Crabb*s Hist. Eng. Law, 35. Spelman's Orig. of Terms, cited ibid.