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Dimissio

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Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Lat. [from dimittere, to demise.] In old English law. A demise or lease. So written in Bracton, though the more modern form is demissio. Bract. fol. 23 b. See Demissio. DIMISSORIAE LITTERAE. Lat.

In the civil law. Letters dimissory or dismissory, commonly called apostles, (quae vulgo apostoli dicuntur.) Dig. 50. 16. 106. See Apostoli, Apostles.