Proditor

A traitor. PRODITORIE (Lat.) Treasonably. This is a technical word formerly used in indictments for treason, when they were written in Latin. PRODUCTIO SECTAE (Law Lat.)

In old English law. Production of suit; the production, by a plaintiff, of his secta or suit, that is, a number of persons prepared to confirm what he had stated in his count (or intentio). This was done at the time of counting, or immediately after, and was expressed by the phrase at the end of the count or declaration: "Et inde producit sectam," and thereupon, or thereof, he produces suit. Translated in the modern forms: "And therefore he brings suit." Et inde statim prodaicat sectam sufficientem, duos ad minus, vel tres, vel plures, si possit, and thereupon he should immediately produce a sufficient suit, two at least, or three or more, if he can. Bracton, fol. 410. See Id. 159, 314b; Steph. PL 429, and note. PRODUCTION OF SUIT (productio sectae). The concluding clause of all declarations is, "and thereupon he brings his suit." In old pleading this referred to the production by the plaintiff of his secta or suit, i. €., persons prepared to confirm what he had stated in the declaration. The phrase has remained; but the practice from which it arose is obsolete. 3 Bl. Comm. 295; Steph. PI. 428.

A traitor, one guilty of treason.

A traitor.