Common Pleas
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Lat. communia placita; L. Fr. comunes plees.] Common causes or suits. A term anciently used to denote civil actions, or those depending between subject and subject, as distinguished from pleas of the crown, (q. v.) 3 Bl. Com. 38, 40. Britt. fol.
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The singular "common plea" is sometimes used in the old books. Nul common plee ne soit desormes tenus a leschequer, Artic. sup. Chart. c.
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