Decretnm
Defined in 1 dictionary — Kinney (1893)
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
I.
In the civil law. A species of imperial constitution, being a judgment given by the emperor upon the hearing of a cause.
In the canon law. An ecclesiastical law, in contradistinction to a secular law; the first of the two great divisions of the Corpus Juris Canonici, more commonly known as Decretum Oratiani. Decreand the first in order of the collections which together form the body of the Roman canon law,