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 civil law. The decrees or constitutions of the emperor; being the expressions of his wilV and pleasure. Calvin. Placita eommnnia. Common pleas. All civil actions between subject and subject 8 Bl. Comm. 38, 40. Placita coronas. Pleas of the. crown. All trials for crimes and misdemeanors, wherein the king is plaintiff, on behalf of the people. & Bl. Comm. 40. Placita juris. Pleas or rules of law; “particular and positive learnings of laws;” “Grounds and positive learnings received with the law and set down;” as distinguished from maxims or the formulated conclusions of legal reason. Bac. Max. pref., and reg. 12. Placita de transgressione contra pa-cent regis, in regno AngHat vi et amis facta, secundum legem et consuetudinam Anglise sine breri regis placitari non debent. 2 Inst. 811. Pleas of trespass against the peace of the king in the kingdom of England, made with force and arms, ought not by the law and custom of England, to be pleaded without the king’s writ Placita negativa duo ealtum non f act-unt. Two negative pleas do not form an Issue. Lofft, 415.