Category: P

Possessing royal privileges. See COUNTY PALATINE.

Error in the computation of time.

The state or condition of holding title to lands jointly by parceners or co-parceners, before a division of the joint estate.

See DECLARATION.

The rector of a church; one that has full possession of all the rights of a parochial church. The appellation of “parson,” however it may be depreciated by familiar, clownish, and indiscriminate

A voluntary contract between two or more competent persons to place their money, effects, labor, and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, with the understanding that

v. 1. In practice. To utter or pronounce; as when the court passes sentence upon a prisoner. Also to proceed; to be rendered or given; as when judgment is said to pass

Know all men by these presents. Words with which letters of attorney anciently commenced. Reg. Orig. 3056, 300.

In the civil law. The private and exclusive ownership or dominion of an individual. Things capable of being possessed by a single person to the exclusion of all others (or which are

v. To deliver personal property to another in pledge, or as security for a debt or sum borrowed.

A measure of two gallons; a dry measure.

Foot-soldiers.

1. The sum of money which the obligor of a bond undertakes to pay by way of penalty, in the event of his omitting to perform or carry out the terms imposed

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

Lat. In old practice. At length.

Lat. By himself or itself; in itself; taken alone; inherently; in isolation; unconnected with other matters.

L. Lat A pardon for a man who, for contempt in not yielding obedience to the process of a court, is outlawed, and afterwards of his own accord surrenders. Reg. Orig. 28.

A dispensation granted to a clerk, who, being defective in capacity for a benefice or other ecclesiastical function, is de facto admitted to it. Cowell.

Generally, this term denotes the x>erson who actually commits a crime or delict, or by whose immediate agency it occurs. But, where a servant of a rail- road company is killed through

To persuade is to induce to act. Persuading is inducing others to act. Crosby v. Hawthorn, 25 Ala. 221; Wilson v. State, 3S Ala. 411; Nash v. Douglass, 12 Abb. Prac. (N.