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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.