单词 | to hold pleas |
释义 | > as lemmasto hold pleas b. to hold pleas [after post-classical Latin tenere placita (from 9th cent.; from 11th cent. in British sources), Anglo-Norman tenir pleiz, Old French tenir les plaids (c1200)] : to try actions at law, to have jurisdiction. to hold plea [after post-classical Latin placitum tenere (early 13th cent. in a British source)] : to try an action (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > try or hear causes [verb (intransitive)] to hold plea1477 cognoscea1583 animadvert1656 cognize1659 1477 Rolls of Parl. VI. 187/2 That..no Styward..hold plee uppon any Action atte sute of any persone. 1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xxxvi. f. lxxxxvi For elles yt were a thynge in vayne for hym to holde ple of aduousons. 1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 201 Hauing a court..in which they hold plea of all causes and actions, reall and personall, ciuill and criminall. 1620 J. Wilkinson Treat. Statutes conc. Coroners & Sherifes (new ed.) 46 By a writ of Justicies out of the chancery, which is a commission to the Sherif to hold plea of any summe whatsoever. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. vii. 112 This writ may issue..to the county courts or courts-baron, where they attempt to hold plea of any matter of the value of forty shillings. 1828 Times 31 Dec. 3/1 For the benefit of the public in general, and in order to save ruinous expense, that by virtue of a writ of justicies, the sheriff of any county may hold pleas in actions of account, debt, detinue, trover, scandal, &c. 1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. iii. 46 The count..is still allowed to hold pleas. 1921 Clifford & O'Sullivan (Lexis) (House of Lords) 28 July The Pope's Collector, whose Bull enabled him to hold pleas, was held to be incapable of holding pleas even of spiritual matters within the realm, and accordingly the Vicar obtained a prohibition against him. 1959 G. D. Squibb High Court of Chivalry v. 66 On 19 February 1641 he had..the congenial task of reporting the result of the committee's deliberations to the House. Upon this report the House resolved that the Court had no jurisdiction to hold plea of words; that the Earl Marshal could hold no Court without the Constable. < as lemmas |
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