DOCTRINA PLACITANDI. By E. Allen Frost. IN the preface to the first edition of his work on pleading, Mr. Stephen, writing of Doctrina Placitandi says : " The science of pleading, though vying with most other

and defective. The most important of these is the Doctrina Placitandi, published in the reign of Charles II.; a work which, though extremely learned and elaborate, and for a

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branches of our law, in antiquity, and always among the highest in professional estimation, has been among the last to receive satisfac tory illustration from the press. It is true that at early periods there were treatises on this subject, but their plans were confined

long time justly considered as the capital source of information upon pleading, amounts, after all, to no more than an extensive col lection of adjudged points, classed without any skill of arrangement, under titles in al phabetical series. In more modern times,