- moderate castigavit
- /modareytiy kaestageyvat/In old pleading, be moderately chastised. The name of a plea in trespass which justifies an alleged battery on the ground that it consisted in a moderate chastisement of the plaintiff by the defendant, which, from their relations, the latter had a legal right to inflict
Black's law dictionary. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A.. 1990.