Note 359 — Book IX.
John Beames translation
Justiciare. Justiciatio, says the Norman Code, est coarctatio super aliquem facta, ut juri pareat. Having given this definition, it goes on to observe, that it ought not to precede, but follow the offence—that there were three things that authorised it—transgressio termini prefixi—contemptus justiciæ, and irrogatio Injuriæ. We learn from the same source, that this Justiciatio was by distraining the goods, or the Fee, or by taking the body. (Le Grand Custum. de Norm. c. 6.)