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. Placita 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. Placita were divided into placita coronæ (crown cases or picas of the crown, i. c., criminal actions) and placita 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 generalissimum.

1 Saund. 388, n. 6.

In the old reports and abridgments, "placitum" 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.

Inst. 1, 2, 6.

A judicial decision; the judgment, decree, or sentence of a court.

Calvin.