Licet
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
1.
It is lawful; it is allowable.
2. Although.
In this sense, the word imports a direct affirmation.
Licet ssepius requisitus
Although often requested. The emphatic words, in the Latin forms of pleading at common law, of an allegation that a party has been often requested to perform the acts the non-performance of which is complained of. The phrase is literally translated in the modern forms, and is sometimes used to designate the clause containing such an averment. LICITATION; LICITACION. The civil and Spanish law terms for a species of auction, authorized where joint owners of property incapable of partition desired a division of value. By this prohave it judicially awarded to the one who ■would pay for the other's share at the highest valuation. So, by licitatio fructus, the produce of a farm in suit might be sold to the claimant bidding highest, for them, subject to paying the other if the latter prevailed.
Hunt. Rom. L. 840.