An archaic or legal term for a debt or obligation owed by one person to another.
From Old French 'dette', derived from Latin 'debita' (things owed). An older spelling of the English word 'debt'.
In medieval England, 'dette' was a technical legal term used in contracts—it shows how the French language influenced English law after the Norman Conquest!
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