DIET
diet.1. A regimen, esp. of food.
2. A governing body’s meeting day for legislative, political, or religious purposes; specif., a national assembly of various European countries, such as the diet of the German empire, which was summoned by the emperor regularly to perform various functions, including levying taxes, enacting laws, and declaring war.
3. Scots law. A day to perform a duty, such as a court sitting day, an appearance day, and a criminal pleading or trial day. ¡ª Also spelled dyet.
¡°In procedure on indictment there are two diets, the pleading diet, when the accused is called to plead, and the trial diet when, if he has pled not guilty, he is tried.¡± David M. Walker, The Oxford Companion to Law 357 (1980).
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