Auditus
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from audire, to hear.] In old pleading and practice.
Hearing.
In auditu quamplurimorum; in the hearing of very many.
T. Raym. 196.
Oyer, (which was anciently an actual hearing.) Et petunt auditum scripti praedicti, et eis legitur in haec verba; and they pray oyer of the said writing, and it is read to them in these words.
Hob. 19 a. 2 Ld. Raym. 1540.
Si querens petat auditum; if the plaintiff pray oyer.
Stat. Westm. 2, c. 39.
See Oyer.
See Oyer.