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Docere

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Kinney (1893), Burrill (1850)

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

I In the civil and old English law. To show; to set forth; to make out a case by proper statements; to show or establish by proof.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Lat.

In the civil and old common law. To show; to make out a case by proper statements. Cum querena-^o- -cuit tenementum esse suum, ienens, sipossit, •doceat, <fec.; when the plaintiff has shown {by his count or declaration,] the tenement to be his, the tenant if he can, may show, Ac. Bract, fol. 209. To show or establish by proof. Bt hoc paratus est docere; and this he is ready to show, or verify. Id. fol. 216 b.