Decree

The judgment of a court of equity or admiralty, answering to the judgment of a court of common law. It is final where it disposes of the suit; interlocutory whex-e it disposes of some pleading or of some inconclusive issue, but not of the main question. In Soots law. The final sentence of a court. Decree of coustitntion: a decree by which a debt is ascertained; a decree requisite to found a title in the person of the creditor, whether that necessity arises from the death of the debtor or of the creditor. Decree of forthcoming': the adjudication of the court, after process of arrestment, which entitles the creditor to demand the sum arrested, to be applied for payment of the debt on which thean-estment and forthcoming proceeded, v. Arrestment; Forthcoming. In the civil law. The final sentence of a court In the canon law. The first of the two main divisions of the Corpus Juris Canonici.