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Decree :: Decree (n.) An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru// decision..

Abolition :: Abolition (n.) The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc..

Arret :: Arret (n.) A judgment, decision, or decree of a court or high tribunal; also, a decree of a sovereign..

Rogation :: Rogation (n.) The demand, by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people; a proposed law or decree..

Obtemper :: Obtemper (v. t. & i.) To obey (a judgment or decree).

Fiaunt :: Fiaunt (n.) Commission; fiat; order; decree.

Appoint :: Appoint (v. t.) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of..

Decretive :: Decretive (n.) Having the force of a decree; determining.

Enactor :: Enactor (n.) One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.

Rescind :: Rescind (v. t.) Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment..

Predestine :: Predestine (v. t.) To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate.

Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court..

Irreversible :: Irreversible (a.) Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled; as, an irreversible sentence or decree..

Absolutism :: Absolutism (n.) Doctrine of absolute decrees.

Decretal :: Decretal (a.) The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort..

Dualism :: Dualism (n.) The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate..

Enact :: Enact (v. t.) To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law..

Condemnatory :: Condemnatory (a.) Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree..

Ordinant :: Ordinant (a.) Ordaining; decreeing.

Recess :: Recess (n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

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