demission

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In the latter, as in the former case, what we have is merely the demission to the determination of the court of the question whether certain acts and claims are consistent with law.

From The Future of International Law by Oppenheim, L. (Lassa)

There is, however, one case of demission for which a special law has been enacted.

From The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.

"De gre ou de force, quand memo il aurait donne sa demission," he had written to General Bazaine.*

From Maximilian in Mexico A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867 by Stevenson, Sara Yorke

One of these hospitable pastors was the Rev. Gurdon Saltonstall, of New London, who twenty years later, as governor of the colony, presided at the debate which followed upon the demission of Rector Cutler.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

Je suis toujours affligée de voir mes amis se retirer de la vie active; mais je comprends les motifs qui vous ont dicté votre demission….

From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Laughton, John Knox