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placitatio [ML] 1 gathering or assembly for conducting judicial or legislative business, moot, folkmoot. die Dominica publica mercimonia vel ~onum conventicula [AS: folcgemot] ‥ prohibemus (Quad.) GAS 294; interdicimus ‥ diligenter diei Dominice mercacionem et omnem vulgi ~onem [AS: folcgemot] (Cons. Cnuti 15) GAS 297. 2 legal proceeding, plea, action or suit at law. b (w. ref. to formal petition or request regarding a legal matter, in quot. w. gen. of gd. specifying nature of petition). precipio ne ‥ nullus ‥ eos amodo ~onibus et occasionibus ‥ gravet aut laboret FormA 38; s1429 consulimus vobis ‥ ut, bello jurgiose ~onis ad tempus semoto, tentetis ‥ media pacis Amund. I 265; 1441 expense placitorum: pro expensis ~onis contra Humfridum Everard ‥ viz. in vino dato doctori Hautrive, v d. Cant. Coll. Ox. II 161; c1500 tametsi ‥ in edificiis fabricandis, et in ~onibus ‥ grandem admodum pecuniam ‥ consumpserit Reg. Whet. I app. p. 478. b ad hoc est audax promota praesulis lingua, promittens regi centum marcas auri si sibi concederet ~onem enarrandi Herm. Arch. 26.

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