Secta
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
/. Suit. Suit at court, attendance at court. The witnesses of a party in ancient procedure, v. Witness, Compurgatores. Secta ad molendinum (suit to a mill): a writ against persons who were bound by tenure or custom to bring their com to a certain mill to be ground. So Secta ad furnum, torrale: suit to a [pubhc] oven, kiln, or malt-house. Secta curiae (suit of court): the attendance in the lord's court, to which a feudal tenant was anciently bound.