Decretum
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In 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. ——In Canon Law. An ecclesiastical law, in contradistinction to a secular law (lex).
1 Kaufm. Mackeld.
Civ. Law, p.
81, § 93.