Place

pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality. In local actions, the plaintiff must lay his venue in the county in which the action arose. It is a general rule, that the place of every traversable fact, stated in the pleading must be distinctly alleged. Com. Dig. Pleader, c. 20; Sn. Eliz. 78, 93; Lawes’s Pl. 57; "Bac. Ab. Venue B; Co. Litt. 303a; and some place must be alleged for every such fact; this is done by designating the city, town, village, parish or district, together with the county in which the fact is alleged to have occurred; and the place, thus desi nated, is called the venue, (q. v.) in transitory actions, the place laid in the declaration, need not be the place where the cause of action arose, unless when required. by statute. In local actions, the plaintiff} will be confined in his proof to the county laid in the declaration. Vide generally, Gould on Pl. c. 38, 102- 104; Arch. Civ. Pl. 366; Hamm. N. P. 462; 1 Saund. 347, n.1; 2 Saund. 5 n. to all the pleas in the case.

1 Saund. 338, n. 6; Skinn. 554; S. C. Carth. 334; Yelv. 65.

By placitum is also understood the subdivisions in abridgments. and other works, where the point decided in a case is set down, separately, and generally numbered. In citing, it is abbreviated as follows: Vin. Ab. Abatement, pl.

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Placita, is the style of the English courts at the beginning of the record of Nisi Prius; in this sense, placita are divided into pleas of the crown, and common pleas..