Foreign Plea
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Lat. forinsecum placitum.] In old pleading. A plea objecting to a judge as incompetent, because the matter in hand was not within his precinct.
Kitch. 76. Stat. 4 Hen. VIII. c. 2. Stat. 22 Hen. VIII. c. 2, 14.
Cowell, voc.
Foreign.
A plea to the jurisdiction.