Category: P

The sixth day of the last week in Lent, particularly called “Good Friday.” In English law, it is a dies non juridicus.

One work executed In the intervals of another; a subordinate task. Particularly, the name of a work on the Canons, in great repute, by Ayliffe.

The supreme legislative assembly of Great Britain and Ireland, consisting of the king or queen and the three estates of the realm, viz., the lords spiritual, the lords temporal, and the commons.

A small piece of land.

An afternoon’s exercise or moot for the instruction of young students, bearing the same name originally with the Parvisice (little-go) of Oxford. Wharton. PARVUM CAPE 879 PASSENGER

Pannage; a liberty for hogs to run in forests or woods to feed upon mast Mon. Angl. 1, 682.

In old English law. A gallows or gibbet. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 3,

Lat. In Roman law. The condition, relation, right, or duty of a patron. In ecclesiastical law. Patronage, (q. v.) Patronum facinnt dos, acdificatio, fnndns. Dod. Adv. 7. Endowment, building, and land make

In mercantile law. The person in whose favor a bill of exchange, promissory note, or check is made or drawn; the person to whom or to whose order a bill, note, or

In old English law. A toll or tax paid by travelers for the privilege of passiug, on foot or mounted, through a forest or other protected place. Spelman.

Booty; also the personal effects of a felon convict. Cowell.

A prison or place of punishment; the place of punishment in which convicts sentenced to confinement and hard labor are confined by the authority of the law. Millar v. State, 2 Kan.

To come in in the per is to claim by or through the person last entitled to an estate; as the heirs or assigns of the grantee. To come in in the

Lat. By the law of the land; by due process of law. U. S v. Kendall. 20 Fed. Cas. 74S; Appeal of Ervine, 10 Pa. 203. 55 Am. Dec. 499; Ithinehart v.

Lat In old English law. By view ol’ the church ; under the supervision of the church. The disposi- tion of intestates’ goods per visum ecciesiw was one of the articles confirmed

Imperative; absolute; not admitting of question, delay, or recon PEREMPTORY 892 PERIL sideration. Positive; final; decisive; not admitting of any alternative. Self-determined ; arbitrary; not requiring any cause to be shown.

A license to do a thing; an authority to do an act which, without such authority, would have been unlawful.

Lat. In the civil law. Character, in virtue of which certain rights belong to a man and certain duties are im- posed upon him. Thus one man may unite many characters, (persona;,)

In the English ecclesiastical courts, a “suit for perturbation of seat” is the technical name for an action growing out of a disturbance or infringement of one’s right to a pew or

A watch-tower, light-house, or sea-mark.