II.   Instruments & Transactions

A Plaint is a formal Instrument issued under the Scientiam Mysteria (Occult Knowledge) standards of instruments and writing first formed under King Henry VIII of England from the 16th Century as a form of registration and acknowledgment of an accusation and the lawful conveyance and transfer of certain rights to the Court to pursue the matter as a suit.

In respect of a Plaint:

(i) Before the abolition of real actions of a copyholder in the 18th Century, a tenant under copyhold could only plead and be impleaded in respect of his copyhold land in the Court of the manor, by what were called customary plaints, which were analogous to the common law writs in real action; and

(ii) The Steward of the Manor or Registrar of the Court used to give the plaintiff a note called a Plaint Note, containing the date of the entry, the day fixed for the trial and some notices for the guidance of the plaintiff; and

(iii) The concept of Plaints and Plaint Notes were superseded in the 18th Century by Bills of Complaint, or simply “Bills”; and

(iv) Under the Judicature Acts of the 19th Century, Bills were then superseded with Complaints.