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In English law. A colony; an original settlement in a new country. See 1 Bl. Comm. 107. In American law. A farm; a large cultivated estate. Used chiefly in the southern states. In North Carolina, "plantation" signifies the land a man owns which he is cultivating mote or less in annual crops. Strictly, it designates the place planted; but in wills it is generally used to denote … [Read more...] about PLANTATION

In Scotch law; A privilege of inflicting capital punishment for theft, given by King Malcolin, by which. a woman could be drowned in a pit (fossaj or a man hanged on a gallows, (furco.) Bell. … [Read more...] about PIT AND GALLOWS

In old English law. The public assemblies of all degrees of men where the sovereign presided, who usually consulted 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. Cowell. In the … [Read more...] about PLACITA

In old English law. Money, commonly a penny, paid for pitching or setting down every bag of corn or pack of goods in a fair or market. Cowell. … [Read more...] about PITCHING-PENCE

In old English law. Pleadable. Spelman. … [Read more...] about PLACITABILE