Multitude
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
An assemblage of many people. According to Coke it is not a word of very precise meaning: for some authorities hold that there must be at least ten persons to makea multitude, while others maintain that, no definite number is fixed by law.
Co. Litt. 257.
Multitudinem decem faciunt.
Co. Litt. 257.
Ten make a multilude
Multitudo errautium non parit errori patrocinum, The multitude of those who err furnishes no countenance or excuse for error. 11 Coke, 75a. it is no excuse for error that it is entertained by numbers.
Multitudo imperitorum perdit curiam
The great number of unskillful practitioners ruins acourt.
2 Inst. 219.