The moiety or half of a thing

In the civil law. Diminution; a taking away; loss or deprivation.Diminutio capitis, loss of status or condition. See CAPITIS DIMINUTIO.

Incompleteness. A word signifying that the record sent up from anInferior to a superior court for review is incomplete, or not fully certified. In such casethe party may suggest a “diminution of

In old conveyancing. [He] has demised. See DIMISI.

In the civil law. Letters dimissory or dismissory. commonlycalled “apostles,” (qua; viilgo apovtoli dicuntur.) Dig. 50, 10, 100. See ArosTOLi, APOSTI.ES.

Where a candidate for holy orders has a title of ordination inone diocese in England, and is to be ordained in another, the bishop of the formerdiocese gives letters dimissory to the

A government of two persons.

In Spanish law. Money. Dincro contado, money counted. White, NewRecop. b. 2. tit. 13, c. 1,

Belonging to a diocese; a bishop, as he stands related to his own clergy or flock.

In English law. The consistorial courts of each diocese, exercisinggeneral jurisdiction of all matters arising locally within their respective limits, withthe exception of places subject to peculiar Jurisdiction; deciding all matters of

Diptychs; tablets of wood, metal, or other substance, used among theRomans for the purpose of writing, and folded like a book of two leaves. The diptychsof antiquity were especially employed for public

The territorial extent of a bishop’s jurisdiction. The circuit of everybishop’s jurisdiction. Co. Litt 94; 1 Bl. Comm. 111.

The district over which a bishop exercised his spiritual functions.

In mining law. The line of declination of strata; the angle which measures thedeviation of a mineralized vein or lode from the vertical plane; the slope or slant of avein, away from

In the civil law. A royal charter; letters patent granted by a prince orsovereign. Calvin.An instrument given by colleges and societies on the conferring of any degrees.State v. Gregory, 83 Mo. 130,

The science which treats of the relations and interests of nations with nations.Negotiation or intercourse between nations through their representatives. The rules,customs, and privileges of representatives at foreign courts.

The science of diplomas, or of ancient writings and documents; theart of judging of ancient charters, public documents, diplomas, etc., and discriminatingthe true from the false. Webster.

A person subject to dipsomania. One who has an irresistible desire for alcoholic liquors. See INSANITT.

Immediate; by the shortest course; without circuity; operating by animmediate connection or relation, Instead of operating through a medium; the oppositeof indirect.In the usual or natural course or line; immediately upwards or

A direct attack on a judgment or decree is an attempt, for sufficient cause, to have it annulled, reversed, vacated, corrected, declared void, or enjoined, in a proceeding instituted for that specific