PLACITUM

In old English law. A public assembly at which the king presided, and which comprised men of all degrees, met for consultation about the great affairs of the kingdom. Cowell. A court; a judicial tribunal; a lord’s court. Plaeita was the style or title of the courts at the beginning of the old nisi prius record. A suit or cause in court; a judicial proceeding ; a trial. Plaeita were divided into plaeita eoronw. (crown cases or pleas of. the crown, i.e. criminal actions) and plaeita communia, (common cases or common pleas, i.e., private civil actions.) A fine, mulct, or pecuniary punishment. A pleading or plea. In this sense, the term was not confined to the defendant’s answer to the declaration, but included all the pleadings In the cause, being nomen gen-eralissimum. 1 Saund. 388, n. 6. In the old reports and abridgments, “placiturn” was the name of a paragraph or subdivision of a title or page where the point decided in a cause was set out separately. It is commonly abbreviated “pi.” In the civil law. An agreement of parties ; that which is their pleasure to arrange between them. ; An imperial ordinance or constitution; literally, the prince’s pleasure. A judicial decision; the judgment, decree, or sentence of a court Calvin. Plaoitum aliud personals, aliud reals, aliud mix turn. Co. Litt. 284. Pleas [i.e., actions] are personal, real, and mixed.