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PENTECOSTALS

In ecclesiastical law. Pious oblations made at the feast of Pentecost by parishioners to their priests, and sometimes by inferior churches or parishes to the principal mother churches. They are also called

PER EUNDEM

Lat. By the same. This phrase is commonly used to express “by, or from the mouth of, the same judge.” So “per eundem in cad em” means “by the same judge in

PER SALTUM

Lat By a leap or bound; by a sudden movement; passing over certain proceedings. 8 East, 511.

PERCH

A measure of land containing five yards and a half, or sixteen feet and a half in length ; otherwise called a “rod” or “pole.” Cowell. As a unit of solid measure,

PERIL

The risk, hazard, or contingency insured against by a policy of insurance.

PERPARS

L. Lat A purpart; a part of the inheritance.

PERSONNE

Fr. A person. This term is applicable to men and women, or to either. Civ. Code Lat. art. 3522,

PETIT

Fr. Small; minor; inconsiderable. Used in several compounds, and sometimes written “petty.”

PILFER

To pilfer, in the plain and popular sense, means to steal. To charge another with pilfering is to charge him with stealing, and is slander. Becket v. Sterrett, 4 Blackf. (Ind.) 499.

PIRATICAL

“Where the act uses the word ‘piratical,’ it does so in a general sense; importing that the aggression is unauthorized by the law of nations, hostile in its character, wanton and criminal

PLAT, or PLOT

A map, or representation on paper, of a piece of land subdivided into lots, with streets, alleys, etc., usually drawn to a scale. McDaniel v. Mace, 47 PLAY-DEUT 903 PLEA Iowa, 510;

PLEDABLE

L. Fr. That may be brought or conducted; as an action or “plea,” as it was formerly called. Britt. c. 32.

PLOK-PENNIN

A kind of earnest used In public sales at Amsterdam. Wharton.

PLUS PETITIO

In Roman law. A phrase denoting the offense of claiming more than was just in one’s pleadings. This more might be claimed in four different respects, viz.: (1) Re, i. e., in

POLL,

v. In practice. To single out, one by one, of a number of persons. To examine each juror separately, after a verdict has been given, as to his concurrence in the ver-

PONERE

Lat. To put, place, lay, or set. Often used in the Latin terms and phrases of the old law.

PORTATICA

In English law. The generic name for port duties charged to ships. Harg. Law Tract, 64.

POSTIVI JURIS

Lat. Of positive law. “That was a rule positivi juris; I do not mean to say an unjust one.” Lord Elleu- borough, 12 East. G39. Posito nno oppositorum, negatur alteram. One of

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