Jocus Partitus

In old English practice. A divided game, risk, or hazard. An I arrangement which the parties to a suit Were anciently sometimes allowed to make by mutual agreement upon a certain hazard if it did not, that the other should gain (quod unus amittat si ita sit, et si non sit, quod alius lucretur). Bracton, fols.

211b, 379b, 432, 434, 200b.

This arrangement, however, was altogether a voluntary and extrajudicial one.