Docere
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. In the civil and old common law. To show; to make out a case by proper statements. Cum querena-^o- -cuit tenementum esse suum, ienens, sipossit, •doceat, <fec.; when the plaintiff has shown {by his count or declaration,] the tenement to be his, the tenant if he can, may show, Ac. Bract, fol.
209.
To show or establish by proof. Bt hoc paratus est docere; and this he is ready to show, or verify. Id. fol.
216 b.