A legal decision or judgment from a court, especially in medieval or formal legal proceedings.
From Latin habet meaning 'he/she has.' In medieval legal contexts, this term was used in formal court records to indicate that judgment or a decision had been rendered.
Medieval courts recorded decisions in Latin, and the word 'habet' appears countless times in old documents as scribes certified that a judgment had been issued. These records still survive in archives and give us incredible insight into how justice worked 800 years ago.
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