Diet
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
or DYET. In Scotch practice. The sitting of a court.
3 How. St. Tr. 654.
An appearance day. Bell, Diet. A day fixed for the trial of a criminal cause.
2 Alison, Prac. 343; 2 Brown, 240.
A criminal cause aS prepared for trial. 1 Brown, 268; 2 Brown, 141. "Deserting the diet."
Arkley, 481.
DIETA (Lat.) A day's journey; a day's work; a day's expenses. A reasonable day's journey is said to be twenty miles, by an old computation.
Cowell; Spelman; Bracton, 235b; 3 Bl. Comm. 218.