Category: P

Lat. He Is ready to verify. The Latin form for concluding a pleading with a verification, (q. v

Lat I have him in readiness. The return by the sheriff to a capias ad respondendum, signifying that he has the defendant in readiness to be brought into court

ln the civil law. Notes or abstracts prefixed to titles of law, giving a summary of their contents. Cod. 1, 17, 1 12

In the civil law. A conventicle, or unlawful meeting

In tbe civU law

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Above; upwards. That which is superior; usually applied to the highest lord of the fee of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, as distinguished from the mesne (or Intermediate) lord. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 135

In the civil law. Goods brought by wife to husband over and above her dowry

A part or section of a statute, pleading, affidavit, etc., which con-tains one article, the sense of which is com-plete. McClellan v. Hein, 56 Neb. 600, 77 N. W. 120; Hill v. Fairhaven A W. R. Co., 75 Conn. 177, 52 Atl. 725; Marine v. Pack-ham, 52 Fed. 579, 3 C. C. A. 210; Bailey […]

or PARAGIUM. An eqaal-ity of blood or dignity, but more especially of land, in the partition of an lnheritance between co-heirs: more properly, however, an equality of couditiou among nobler, or

The teuure between par-teeners, viz., that which the youngest owes to the eldest without homage or service. Domesday

Error in the computation of time

The act of impanei-ing a jury

A dramatic performance in which gestures take the place of words. See 3 C. B. 871

A common of pannage ls the right of feeding swine on mast aud acorns at certain seasons in a commonable wood or forest. Elton, Commons, 25; W11–liams, Common, 168

IS. Lat In old Engllsh law. Bread; loaf; a loaf. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 9

The roll or slip of parchment returned by the sheriff in obedience to a venire facias, containing the names of the per-sons whom he has summoned to attend the court ns jurymen. Beasley v. People, 89 111. 571; People v. Coyodo, 40 Col. 592

An ale-wife; a woman that both brewed arid sold ale and beer

In old records. A brewer

The name given in Pennsylvania to the publication, in pam-phlet or book form, containing the acts pass-ed by the state legislature at each of its biennial sessions

A name given to the English statute 19 & 20 Vlct c. 16, enabling a person accused of a crime committed out of the jurisdiction of the central crlminal court, to be-tried ln that court

A small book, bound in paper covers, usually printed in the octavo form, and stitched. See U. .S. v. Chase, 135 U. S. 255, 10 Sup. Ct. 756, 34 L. Ed. 117

In old English law. A merchant denizen; one born within the Eng-lish pole. Blount

In old English law. An ancient custom, where children were born out of wedlock, and their parents afterwards intermarried. The children, to-gether with the father and mother, stood un-der a cloth extended while the marriage was solemnized. It was in the nature of adoption. The children were legitimate by

A palfrey; a horse to travel on

Possessing royal privileges. See County Palatine

Lat. In the civil iaw. open-ly; in the presence of many. Dig. 50, 16, 33

A duty to lords of manors for exporting and importing vessels of wine at any of their ports. Jacob

A court formerly ex-isting ln England. It was created by Charles I., and abolished ln 1849. It was held in the borough of Southwark, and had jurisdic* tlon of all personal actions arising within twelve miles of the royal palace of white-hall, exclusive of London

ordinary conveyances between two or more persons in the country; i. e., upon the land to be trans-fferred

In the practice of leg-lslative bodies, this is the name given to a Bpecies of negative proxies, by which two members, who belong to opposite parties or are on opposite sides with regard to a given question, mutually agree that they will both be absent from voting, either for a specified period or when a […]

The name given to acts of parliament to attaint particular persons of treason or felony, or to inflict pains and penalties beyond or contrary to the common law, to serve a spe-cial purpose. They are in fact new laws, made pro re nata.

A county. Jacob

See Peirb

A gold or silver coin, of several kinds and values, formerly current ln India. It was valued, at the United States custom-house, at $1.94

In Spanish law. Payment Las Partidas, pt. 5, tlt. 14, 1. 1. Pagamcnto, satisfaction

A petty magistrate of a pagus or little district in the country

A small inclosure for deer or other anlmals

Lat. In tbe civU law. A pact. An agreement or convention without specific na/ne, and without consideration, which, however, might, in its nature, produce a civil obligation. Heinecc. Elem. lih. 3, tit. 14, g 775

A robber; a foot highway* man; a foot-pad

Settled by covenant

Relating to or generating an agreement; hy way of bargain or cove-nant

In international law. Con-tracts between nations which are to be performed by a single act, and of whicb execu-tion ls at an end at once. 1 Bouv. InsL no. 100

The name for a consignment of goods, consisting of one large parcel made up of several small ones, (each bearing a different address,) collected from different persons by the immediate consign-or, (a carrier,) who unites them into one for his own profit, at the expense of the railway by which they are sent, since the […]

To put together in sorts with a fraudulent design. To pack a jury is to use unlawful, Improper, or deceitful means to have the jury made up of persons favorably disposed to the party so contriving, or who have been or can be improperly influenced to give the verdict he seeks. The term imi>orts the […]

A horse load, which consists of seventeen stone and two pounds, or two hundred and forty pounds welght. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 12; Cowell

Lat. Let him be freed or discharged

A measure of length containing two feet and a half, being the ordinary length of a step

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