Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Decimation
1 A major destruction of people; a great loss of life. 2. Hist. A tithing; a payment of the tenth part. 3. Hist. A punishment, esp. by death, of every tenth person by lot. ( Under Roman law, decimatio legonis referred to the execution by lot of every tenth soldier for mutiny or other neglect of duty.