Emmēnoi Dikai
（ἔμμηνοι δίκαι). A name given in Attic law to those suits that were not allowed to be pending for more than a month. Most of these were suits respecting commerce or mines, in which delay would be especially injurious.
Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.
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