Decretum
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from decernere, to decree.] In the civil law. A species of imperial constitution, being a judgment or sentence given by the emperor upon hearing of a cause, (quod imperator cognoscens decrevit) Inst. 1.
2. 6.
Cooper's Notes, in loc.
1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 41, § 60.
For other senses, see Calvin's Lex. Jurid.