Category: P

A parcel of land.

In Spanish law. Relations. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 5,

Lat. A part; a party to a deed, action, or legal proceeding.

A member of a copartnership or firm ; one who has united with others to form a partnership in business. See PABT- NEKSIIIP.

The grazing or pasturage of cattle.

In feudal law. The procuration or provision which tenants were bound to make for their lords at certain times, or as often as they made a progress to their lands. It was

Pertaining to a patrimony ; inherited from ancestors, but strictly from the direct male ancestors.

Money paid towards paving the streets or highways.

A piece or small quantity of ground. Parocli. Antiq. 240.

Lat. A foothold; an actual possession. To constitute adverse possession there must be pedis possessio, or a substantial inclosure. 2 Bouv. Inst. no. PEDONES 886 PENAL 2193; Bailey v. Irby, 2 Nott

Punishable; inflicting a punishment; containing a penalty, or relating to a penalty.

A road shut up or closed at its terminal points. Wolcott v. Whit- comb, 40 Vt 41.

Lat. In old practice. By the consideration (judgment) of the court. Yearb. M. 1 Edw. II. 2. PER CURIAM. Lat. By the court. A phrase used in the reports to distinguish an

Lat. In old pleading. Whereby he lost the service [of his servant.] A phrase used in the old declarations in actions of trespass by a master, for beating or ill using his

In old records. A wear; a place in a river made up with banks, dams, etc., for the better convenience of preserving and taking fish. Cowell.

Lat. In the civil law. Peril; danger; hazard; risk. Periculum rei venditoe, nondum tra- dita;, est emptoris. The risk of a tiling sold, and not yet delivered, is the purchaser’s. 2 Kent,

He who receives the profits of lands, etc.; he who has the actual pernancy of the profits.

In criminal law. To assume the person (character) of another, without his consent or knowledge, in order to deceive others, and, in such feigned character, to fraudulently do some act or gain

Lat In old English law. A demandant; the plaintiff in a real action. Bract, fols. 102, 1006.

An obsolete term for an enormous crime.