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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

or DEEMSTER.

In Scotch law

A doomsman; one who pronounced the sentence of court.

1 How. St. Tr. 937.