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
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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
PITHATISM
In medical jurisprudence. A term of recent Introduction to medical 'science, signifying curability by means of persuasion, and used as synonymous with "hysteria," in effect limiting the scope of the latter term to the description of psychic or nervous disorders which may be cured uniquely by psychotherapy or persuasion Babinski. … [Read more...] about PITHATISM
PLACITAMENTUM
In old records. The pleading of a cause. Spelman. … [Read more...] about PLACITAMENTUM