Legal Definition and Related Resources of Secta
Meaning of Secta
Originally, the term denoted a kind of monopoly where by custom or prescription , the inhabitants of a particular place had the use of a mill, kiln or similar structure belonging to a particular person who had a cause of action against any inhabitant who went to another mill or kiln, etc. In the old common law practise , the term also denoted the followers or witnesses whom the plaintiff brought to court to prove his case.
Secta Alternative Definition
(Lat. sequor, to follow). The persons, two or more in number, whom the plaintiff produced in court, in the ancient form of proceedings, immediately upon making his declaration, to confirm the allegations therein, before they were called in question by the defendant’s plea. Bracton, 214a. The word appears to have been used as denoting that these persons followed the plaintiff into court; that is, came in a matter in which the plaintiff was the leader, or one principally concerned. The actual production of “suit” was discontinued very early (3 Bl. Comm. 295), but the formula “et inde producit sectam” (for which, in more modern pleadings, “and thereupon he brings suit” is substituted) continued till the abolition of the Latin form of pleadings (Steph. PI. 429, 430). The count in dower and writs of right did not so conclude, however. 1 Chit. PI. 399. A suit or action. Hob. 20; Bracton, 399b. A suit of clothes. Cowell; Spelman.
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Concept of “Secta”
Traditional meaning of secta in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) Suit. Suit at court; attendance at court. The witnesses of a party in ancient procedure; see 3rd Book (“Of Private Wrongs”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 295, 344; WITNESS; COM-PURGATORES. Secta ad molendinum (suit to a mill): a writ against persons who were bound by tenure or custom to bring their corn to a certain mill to be ground. So Secta ad furnum, torrale: suit to a [public] oven, kiln, or malt-house. Secta curiae (suit of court): the attendance in the lord’s court, to which a feudal tenant was anciently bound.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Secta”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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