An edict or law.
The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.
A predetermination made by God; an act of providence.
The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
To command by a decree.
A deliverer of processes or summonses, the formal announcements of the beginning of a legal action; a huissier de justice or other equivalent position in other legal systems.