Category: P

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,

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

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

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

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

A robber; a plunderer.

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.

“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

To plead

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;

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

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

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

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-

A writ by which justices were required to put their seals to exceptions exhibited by a defendant against a plaintiff’s evidence, verdict, or other proceedings, before them, according to the statute Westm.

A place for the lading and unlading of the cargoes of vessels, and the col- lection of duties or customs upon imports and exports. A place, either on the sea- coast or

Law actually and specifically enacted or adopted by i>roper au- thority for the government of an organized jural society. “A ‘law,’ in the sense in which that term is employed in jurisprudence,

Sittings after term. See SITTINGS.

Existing in possibility but not in act; naturally and probably expected to come into existence at some future time, though not now existing; for example, the future product of grain or trees

Lat. In the civil law. A bargaining or agreeing of which pactum (the agreement itself) was the result. Calvin. It is used, however, as the synonym of “pactum.”