Category: P

In English law. Boards of commissioners appointed and authorized for the regulation and appointment of pilots, each board having jurisdiction within a prescribed district.

In old English law. Money, commonly a penny, paid for pitching or setting down every bag of corn or pack of goods in a fair or market. Cowel

The day appointed for a criminal to appear and plead and make his defense. Cowell.

Alleged or averred, in form, iu a judicial proceeding. It more often refers to matter of defense, but not invariably. To say that matter in a declaration or replication is not well

Pledges to prosecute with effect an action of replevin.

Money formerly paid by some tenants, in lieu of service to plow the lord’s lands.

Lat In the civil law. Repentance; reconsideration; changing one’s mind; drawing back from an agreement already made, or rescinding It

To poll a jury is to require that each juror shall himself declare what is his verdict.

1. A combination of persons or corporations engaged in the same business, or for the purpose of engaging in a particular business or commercial or speculative venture, where all contribute to a

Lat. In the civil law. The birthright portion; that portion of an inheritance to which a given heir is entitled, and of which he cannot be deprived by the will of the

The detention and control, or the manual or ideal custody, of any- thing which may be the subject of property, for one’s use and enjoyment, either as owner or as the proprietor

This is a word of comparison and relation in tenure, the correlative of which is the word “priority.” Thus, a man who held lands or tenements of two lords was said to

In old English law. A toll for passage through another’s land. The same as “pedage.”

In Spanish law. Payment. Las Partldas, pt. 5, tit. 14, L 1. Payamcnto, sat- isfaction.

The name given in Pennsylvania to the publication, iu pamphlet or book form, containing the acts passed by the state legislature at each of its biennial sessions.

In the civil law. The separate property of a married woman, other than that which is included in her dowry, or dos. The separate property of the wife is divided Into dotal

Part of a sentence occurring in the middle thereof, and inclosed between marks like ( ), the omission of which part would not injure the grammatical construction of the rest of the

In municipal law and administration. A strip of land, lying either in the middle of the street or in the space between the building line and the sidewalk, or between the sidewalk

Relating to or constituting a part; not complete; not entire or universal.

Lat. In Roman law. He seems to have taken too little care; he seems to have been incautious, or not sufficiently upon his guard. A form of expression used by the judge