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Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Evidence given by the defendant in equity under oath in answer to the plaintiff's bill. v. Bill, I. 4. Discretio est discernere per legem quid sit justum, /. Discretion is to determine what is just by the law.