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  • PLACER
    In mining law. A superficial deposit of sand, gravel, or disintegrated rock, carrying one or more of the precious metals, along the course or under the bed of a water-course, ancient or current, or along the shore of the sea. Under the acts of congress, the term includes all forms More...
  • PLACIT, OR PLACITUM
    Decree; determination.
  • PLACITA
    In old English law. The public assemblies of all degrees of men where the sovereign presided, who usually consulted upon the great affairs of. the kingdom. Also pleas, pleadings, or debates, and trials at law; sometimes penalties, fines, .mulcts, or emendations; also the style of the court at the beginning More...
  • PLACITABILE
    In old English law. Pleadable. Spelman.
  • PLACITAMENTUM
    In old records. The pleading of a cause. Spelman.
  • PLACITARE
    To plead.
  • PLACITATOR
    In old records. A pleader. Cowell; Spelman.
  • PLACITORY
    Relating to pleas or pleading.
  • PLACITUM
    In old English law. A public assembly at which tbe king presided, and which comprised men of all degrees, met for consultation about the great affairs of the kingdom. Cowell. A court; a judicial tribunal; a lord's court. Plaeita was the style or title of the courts at the beginning More...
  • PLACITUM FRACTUM
    A day past or lost to the defendant 1 Hen. L c 59.
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