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Dimissio

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from dimittere, to demise.] In old English law. A demise or lease. So written in Bracton, though the more modern form is demissio. Bract. fol.

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See Demissio. DIMISSORIAE LITTERAE. Lat. In the civil law. Letters dimissory or dismissory, commonly called apostles, (quae vulgo apostoli dicuntur.) Dig. 50.

16. 106.

See Apostoli, Apostles.