placitum

English

Etymology

See placit.

Noun

placitum (plural placita)

1. A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign presided when a consultation was held upon affairs of state.
2. (UK, law, obsolete) A court, or cause in court.
3. (law) A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Latin

Participle

placitum

1. nominative neuter singular of placitus

Noun

placitum n

1. opinion, teaching, theory
2. decree, sentence, suit, litigation
3. plea

Descendants

Dalmatian: aplič English: plea Old French: plait Italian: piato, placito

Portuguese: pleito, plácito Spanish: plazo, plácito, pleito