Acquietatus
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from acquietare, q. v.] Acquitted; discharged; released from a criminal charge; pronounced innocent by a jury.
Reg. Orig. 134. 9 Co. 56. Cro. Car. 420.
This word had the peculiar meaning of a discharge by a jury, (per pais,) from a very early period.
Reg. Orig. 134 b, nota.