DECREE - The judgment or sentence
of a court of equity which corresponds to the judgment
of a court of law.
It is either Interlocutory or Final. The former is
given on some plea or issue arising in the cause which
does not decide the main question; the latter settles
the matter in dispute, and a final decree has the
same effect as a judgment at law.
Legislation. In some countries as in France, some
acts of the legislature, or of the sovereign, which
have the force of law, are called decrees; e.g., the
Berlin and Milan decrees.
