Category: P

See Insanitt

In old Scotch law. Petty theft 2 Pitc. Crim. Tr. 43

These words are used ln the definition of a robbery from the person. The offense must have been commltted by putting in fear the person robbed. 3 Inst 68; 4 Bl. Comm. 243

In Hindu law. A foot-passenger; a person employed as a night-watch in a village, and as a runner or messenger on the business of the revenue, wharton

In English law. Time-bargains, or contracts for the sale of supposed stock on a future day

To open. To put out lights; to open or cut windows. 11 East, 372

Reputed; supposed; com* mouly esteemed. Applied in Scotch law to creditors and proprietors. 2 Kames, Eq. 105, 107, 109

In practice. To place in due form before a court; to place among the records of a court

Lat A congenital idiot

As used ln

To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party

The name by which the com-plainaut or plaintiff is known ln the eccle-siostical courts, and in the Scotch law

The person appointed by the master of a ship or vessel, whose duty it is to take care of the ship’s books, in which every thing on board is inserted, as well the names of mariners as the articles of merchandise shipped. Roccus, Ins. note

A purse, prize, or premium ls ordinarily some valuable thing, offered by a person for the doing of something hy others, into strife for which he does not enter. He has not a chance of gaining the thing offered; and, lf he abide hy his offer, that he must lose it and give it over […]

L. Fr. A close or lnclo-sure; as also the whole compass of a manor

In English law. A space of land near a royal forest, which, belng severed from it, was made purlieu; that is, pure or free from the forest laws

To steal; to commit larceny or theft. McCann v. U. S., 2 wyo. 298

Fr

To cleanse; to clear; to dear or exonerate from some charge or imputation of guilt, or from a contempt

Absolute; complete; slmple; unmixed ; unqualified; free from conditions or restrictions; as in the phrases pure charlty, pure debt, pure obllgation, pure plea, pure vlllenage, as to which see the nouns

Lat. In the civil law. A ward or lnfant under the age of puberty; a person under the authority of a tutor, (q. v

In Scotch law. That perlod of minority from the birth to the age of fourteen ln males, and twelve ln females. BeU

In the civll law. One wbo ls in his or her minority. Particularly, one who is in ward or guardianship

LaL

Relating to punishment; havlng the character of punishment or pen-alty; inflicting punishment or a penalty

In crlmlnal law. Any pain, penalty, suffering, or confinement lnfllcted upon a person by the authority of the law and the judgment and sentence of a court, for some crime or offense committed hy him, or for hls omission of a duty enjoln-ed by law. See Cummlngs v. Missouri, 4 wall. 320, 18 L. Ed. […]

An lnterpreter of the Hindu law; a learned Brahmin

Liable to punishment, whether absolutely or ln the exerclse of a judlcial discretion

In old Engllsh law. Pound-breach; the offense of breaking a pound. The Ulegal taking of cattle out of a pound by any means whatsoever. Cowell

Lat. A point of time; an indivisible period of time; the shortest space of time; an instant. Calvin

The dlvlslon of a writ-ten or printed document lnto sentences by means of perlods; and of sentences lnto smaller divisions by means of commas, semi-colons, colons, etc

Lat. In the clvll law. To beat; to accuse or charge; to proceed agalnst at law. Calvin

The plalntlff, or actor

L. Fr. Younger; subordinate; associate

Fr. Pa

In law French. Afterwards; since

Lat. In the civil law. Childhood; the age from seven to fourteen. 4 Bl. Comm. 22

A person employed by the owner of property which ls sold at auction to attend the sale and run up the price by making spurious bids. See Peck v. List, 23 W

In the civil law. A condition intermediate between infancy and pu-berty, continuing in boys from the seventh to the fourteenth year of their age, and in girls from seven to twelve

In Spanish law. People; all the inhabitants of any country or place, with-out distinction. A town, township, or muJ niclpality. white, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6, S 4

Chastity; purity; continence

In the civil law. The name of an actlon Introduced by the prtetor Publicius, the object of which was to recover a thing which had been lost. Its effects were similar to those of onr action of trover. Mackeld. Rom. Law, $ 298. See lnst. 4, 6, 4; Dig. 6, 2, 1, 16

Lat. In tbe civil law. Public law; that law which regards the state of the commonwealth. Inst 1, 1, 4

1. The act of publtsh-lng anythlng or making lt publlc; offering lt

Lat. of public right This term, as applied to a thiug or right, means that it is opcn to or exercisable by all persons

Lat. In Roman law. A farmer of the customs; a publlcan. Calvln

In tbe civU law. A farmer of the public revenue; one -who held a lease of some property from the public treasury. Dig. 39, 4, 1, 1; Id. 39, 4, 12, 3; Id. 39, 4, 13

A method or sys-tem of alleviating or curing certaiu forms of disease, particularly diseases of the uervous system or such as are traceaijle to nervous disorders, by suggestion, persuasion, encouragement, the inspiration of hope or confidence, the discouragement of morbid memories, associations, or beliefs, and other sim-ilar means addressed to the mental state of the […]

In medical jurisprudence. Alkaloldal products of the decomposition or putrefaction of albumlnous substances, as, in anlmal and vegetable tissues. These are sometimes poisonous, but not Invariably. Ex-arnples of poisonous ptomaines are those oc

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