Fr. An obsolete term for an attorney who pleaded the cause of his client; an advocate. PLAIN STATEMENT is one that may be readily understood, not merely by lawyers, but by all who are sufficiently acquainted with the language in which it is written. Mann v. Morewood, 5 Sandf. (N. T.) 557, 564. … [Read more...] about PLAIDEUR
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PIT AND GALLOWS
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
PLACITA
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
PITCHING-PENCE
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
PLACITABILE
In old English law. Pleadable. Spelman. … [Read more...] about PLACITABILE