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lawwrit that gives a person authority to perform certain acts in chancery in place of a judge:
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1402
)
sibien par disloiautees et deceites, ou negligences des clercs [...], en fesant les notes des fins contrairs al originalx briefs de covenantz et de dedimus potestatem et les conissances avantdites
Rot Parl1 iii 496
(
1406
)
aient poair par brief de dedimus potestatem, de receiver tielx serements en paiis
Rot Parl1 iii 598
potestatem (1402)