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Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
To examine by judicial modes In order to determine. TUAS RES TIBI HABETO (Lat.) Have or take your things to yourself. The form of words by which, according to the old Roman law, a man divorced his wife. Dig. 24. 2. 21. Otherwise expressed, "Tuas res tihi agito."
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
To examine judicially; to examine and investigate a controversy, by the legal method called "trial," for the purpose of determining the issues it involves.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by means of judicial evidence.