Lat. I give, 1 say, I adjudge. Three words used in the Roman law, to express the ^extent of the civil Juris-diction of the praetor. Do denoted that he gave or granted actions, exceptions, aud judices; dico, that he pronounced judgment; addico, that he adjudged the controverted property, or the goods of the debtor, etc., to the plaintiff. Mackeld. Rom. Law, $ 39
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
