SUBSELLIA

Latin: In Roman law. Lower seats or benches, occupied by the ju dices and by inferior magistrates when they sat in judgment, as distinguished from the tribunal of the praetor. Calvin. Subsequens matrimonium tollit pecca tum prsecedens. A subsequent marriage [of the parties] removes a previous fault, ?. e., previous illicit intercourse, and legitimates the offspring. A rule of Roman law.