CHAPTER XXIX

1. 31. Lesplacets, the pétitions. The L. placet shows clearly that the meaning pétition or request is erroneous. The document thus designaled should be the (favourable) answer granted to the petitioner ; and r.ccordingly we find in Littré two quotations in which placet appears with its proper signification. We give one : "Ils ne peuvent estre adjournés par-devant juges ecclésiastiques, sans preallable permission ou -blacet du prince, ou du conseiller provincial."

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I. I. maître des requêtes. See above, p. 53, 1. 8, note. qui les rendait apostilles^ who returned them annotated.