Jocus Partitus
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In old English practice, A divided game, risk, or hazard. An arrangement which the parties to a suit were anciently sometimes allowed to make by mutual agreement upon a certain hazard, (sub pertewlo;) as that one should lose if the case turned out in a certain way, and, if it did not, that the other should gain, (quod unus amittat si ite, sit, et si non sit, quod alius lueretur.) Bract. fols. 2116, 3796, 432, 434, 2000.