Definition of Placitum

1. n. A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state.

Definition of Placitum

1. a court ruling [n PLACITA]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Placitum

placidities
placidity
placidly
placidness
placidnesses
placified
placifies
placify
placifying
placing
placings
placit
placita
placitory
placits
placitum (current term)
plack
placket
plackets
placks
placode
placoderm
placodermal
placodermata
placodermi
placoderms
placodes
placoganoid
placoganoidei
placoid

Literary usage of Placitum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sussex Record Society: Publications by Sussex Record Society (1908)
"... unde placitum fuit inter eos :—Rogs. remisit Ac. :—Pro hoc fine Robs, dedit Rog. tres centum marcas. [35° Henry III. Westm' Oc? Sei. ..."

2. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1791)
"... additions ad placitum to be ufed or not ufed, or to be varied PR 34. cites Mich. 24 Car. BR Br. Addiu- 2$. ..."

3. A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: Containing Full Definitions of the by Alexander Mansfield Burrill (1851)
"[from placitum, qv] In old English law. To plead ; to state to a court in form of ... placitum principale et incidens ; a principal and a collateral suit. ..."

4. Sussex Record Society: Publications by Sussex Record Society (1908)
"... unde placitum fuit inter eos :—Rogs. remisit Ac. :—Pro hoc fine Robs, dedit Rog. tres centum marcas. [35° Henry III. Westm' Oc? Sei. ..."

5. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1791)
"... additions ad placitum to be ufed or not ufed, or to be varied PR 34. cites Mich. 24 Car. BR Br. Addiu- 2$. ..."

6. A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: Containing Full Definitions of the by Alexander Mansfield Burrill (1851)
"[from placitum, qv] In old English law. To plead ; to state to a court in form of ... placitum principale et incidens ; a principal and a collateral suit. ..."

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