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Doom

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

or DOME. In Scotch practice. Judgment; sentence. The judgment of a court formerly pronounced by the mouth of (or pronounce) for doom." The term is still retained; sentences in criminal cases ending with the words, "Which is pronounced for doom."

See 2 Brown, 128.