Placita - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: placitaBannire ad placita, ad molendinum
Bannire ad placita, ad molendinum, to summon tenants to serve at the lord's courts, to bring corn to be ground at his mill....
Communia placita nontenenda in scaccario
Communia placita nontenenda in scaccario, an ancient writ directed to the Treasurer and barons of the Exchequer, forbidding them to hold pleas between common persons (i.e., not debtors to the king, who alone originally sued and were sued there) in that Court where neither of the parties belongs to the same, Reg. Brev. 187....
Placita
Placita, the public assemblies of all degrees of men where the sovereign presided, who usually con-sulted upon the great affairs of the kingdom. Also, pleas, pleadings, or debates, and trials at law; sometimes penalties, fines, mulcts, or emendations; also, the style of the Court at the beginning of the record at nisi prius; but this is now omitted. See Jac. Law Dict....
Seneschallo et mareshallo quod non teneat placita de libero tenemento
Seneschallo et mareshallo quod non teneat placita de libero tenemento, a writ addressed to the steward and marshal of England, inhibiting them from taking cognizance of an action in their Court that concerns freehold, Reg. Brev. 185. Abolished....
Aula Regis, or Regia
Aula Regis, or Regia, a Court established by William the Conqueror in his own hall; it was composed of the great officers of state resident in the palace, and followed the king's household in all his expeditions. The trial of common causes in it was, on this account, very burdensome to the people, and accordingly the 11th chapter of Magna Charta thus enacted:-'communia placita non sequantur curiam nostram sed teneantur in aliquo loco certo.' This 'certain place' was established in Westminster Hall, where until the Judicature Act it continued under the name of the Court of Common Pleas, or Common Bench, Brac. L. 3, tr. 1, c. 7. See ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE....
Placitum
Placitum, any of the points decided in a judgment put concisely by the reporter, abbreviated pl. See PLACITA....
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