Placita

The convening order of the court.

63 111. 497.

PLACITA COMMUNIA (Lat.) Common pleas. All civil actions between subject and PLACITA CORONAE (Lat.) Pleas of the crown. All trials for crimes and misdemeanors, wherein the king is plaintiflF, on behalf of the people. 3 Bl. Comm. 40*; Cowell, "Plea." PLACITA DE TRANSGRESSIONS CONtra pacem regis, in regno Angliae vi et armis facta, secundum legem et consuetudinem Angliae sine brevi regis placitari non debent. Pleas of trespass against the peace of the king in the kingdom of England, made with force and arms, ought not, by the law and custom of England, to be pleaded without the king's writ.

2 Inst. 311.

PLACITA JURIS (Lat.) Arbitrary rules of law.

Bah. Law Tr. 73; Bac. Max. reg. 12.

PLACITA NEGATIVA DUO EXITUM non faciunt

Two negative pleas do not form an issue.

Loflft, 415.

PLACITABILE (Law Lat.) In old English law.

Pleadable. Spelman.

PLACITAMENTUM (Law Lat.) In old records. The pleading of a cause.

Spelman.

PLACITARE (Law Lat. from placitum, q. V.) In old English law. To plead; to state to a court in form of law. Placitantur placita, pleas are pleaded. Bracton, fol.

106.

Placitavit (he) pleaded.

Y. B. M. 1 Edw. II.

To litigate; to make the subject of a plea or action; to implead or prosecute.

Breve Gul. Conq. apud Hale, Hist. Com. Law, 120.

PLACITATOR (Law Lat. from placitare, q. V.) In old records. A pleader. Cowell; Spelman. PLACITUM (Lat. from plaeere). In Civil Law. Any agreement or bargain; a law; a constitution or rescript of the emperor; the decision of a judge or award of arbitrators. Vicat; Calv. Lex.; Dupin, Notions Sur le Droit. In Old English Law (Gev. plats; Lat. plateae, i. e., fields or streets). An assembly of all degrees of men, where the king presided, and they consulted about the great affairs of the kingdom. First held, as the name would show, in the fields or street.

Cowell.

So on the continent. Hinc. de Ordine Palatii, c.

29; Bertinian, Annals of Prance, A. D. 767; Const. Car. Mag. c. ix.; Hinc. Epist. 197, 227; Laws of the Longobards, passim.

A lord's court.

Cowell.

An ordinary court. Placita is the style of the English courts at the beginning oi the record at nisi prius. In this sense, placita are divided into pleas of the crown and common pleas (q. v.) (jowell. A trial or suit in court. Cowell. Jacobs. A fine. Black Book of Exchequer, lib. 2, tit. 13; 1 Hen. I. cc. 12, 13. case. 1 Saund. 888, note 6; Skin. 554; Carth. 334; Yelv. 65. By placitum is also understood the subdivisions in abridgements and other works, where the point decided in a case is set down separately, and generally numbered. In citing, it is abbreviated as follows: Viner, Abr. "Abatement," pi. 3. Placitum nominatum is the day appointed for a criminal to appear and plead. Placitum fractum is a day past or lost to the defendant. 1 Hen. I. c. 59.