Libellary

Quick meaning: Libellary is an adjective meaning (law) Pertaining to the Roman form of law in which the plaintiff files a formal petition.

Meaning

(law) Pertaining to the Roman form of law in which the plaintiff files a formal petition.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) Formally recorded by the court.

Example Sentences

Chancery pleading and practice, like the Roman adjective law, in its third or libellary stage, were essentially unitary in character.

Towards the end of the formulary period, during the libellary period and especially at the time of the Justinian compilation the word condictio conveyed a purely juridical notion and was equivalent to reptitio, repetere.

But we do find a general similarity between the English equity system and the Roman libellary procedure in the absence of a separate body for the trial of facts and hence the absence of emphasis upon the formation of an issue.

In 1930 Steinwenter, in a study devoted to the nature of commencement of trial (litis contestatio) in the so-called libellary procedure of the later Empire, made the first reference to P. Thead. 16 and P. Lips. 41 from a procedural point of view.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include legal, proplaintiff, tried, open, correal, droitural.

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