Jocus Partitus
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In old English practice, A divided game, risk, or hazard. An arrangement which the parties to a suit were anciently sometimes allowed to make by mutual agreement upon a certain hazard, (sub pertewlo;) as that one should lose if the case turned out in a certain way, and, if it did not, that the other should gain, (quod unus amittat si ite, sit, et si non sit, quod alius lueretur.) Bract. fols.
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