Dimittere
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. In the civil law. To send away; to discharge; to dismiss. Filium de potestate dimittere; to dismiss a son from one's power or authority; to emancipate.
Inst. 1. 12. 7, 10.
Uxorem dimittere; to send away or repudiate a wife. Ca Zv. Lex. Jur. Dimitti debito; to be released from a debt.
Id.
In old English law
To send away; to dismiss; to part with. Dimittere se; U) dismiss one's self; to withdraw from. Se dimittere, et a possessions recedere; to dismiss himself and withdraw from the possession. Bract, fol.
31b, 85.
Id. fol.
49, c. 20, in tit.
See Demise of the crown. To demise. See Dimisi, Dimissio.