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An ancient court of record in Liverpool, once called the “mayor’s court of pays sage,” but now usually called the “court of the passage of the borough of Liverpool.” This court was

That which belongs to the father or comes from him.

An honor conferred on men of the first quality in the time of the English Saxon kings.

The person pawning goods or delivering goods to another in pledge.

Lat In the civil law. The offense of stealing or embezzling the public money. Hence the common English word “peculation,” but “embezzlement” is the proper legal term. 4 Bl. Comm. 121, 122.

In feudal law. The vassals of a lord who sat in his court as judges of their co-vassals, and were called “peers,” as being each other’s equals, or of the same condition.

Lat. Pending; as lis pendens, a pending suit.

In Spanish-American law. A lot of land of fifty feet front, and one hundred feet deep. Originally the portion granted to foot-soldiers of spoils taken or lands conquered in war

Lat. By fraud. Where a plea alleges matter of discharge, and the replication avers that the discharge was fraudulently obtained and is therefore invalid, it is called a “replication per fraud- em.”

L. Lat By the whole court A common phrase in the old reports.

As applied to an estate, perdurable signifies lasting long or forever. Thus, a disseisor or tenant in fee upon condition has as high and great an estate as the rightful owner or

n v. Peas- lee, 20 How. 579, 15 L. Ed. 1022. PERIODICAL. Recurring at fixed intervals ; to be made or done, or to happen, at successive periods separated by determined intervals

In Its most extensive sense, “perquisites” signifies anything obtained by industry or purchased with money, dif PERQUISITES 895 PERSONALIS ACTIO ferent from that which descends from a father or ancestor. Bract. 1.

To belong or relate to, whether by nature, appointment or custom. See People v. Chicago Theological Seminary, 174 111. 177, 51 N. E. 198.

A droitural action ; that is. one in which the plaintiff seeks to establish and enforce, by an appropriate legal proceeding, his right of property, or his title, to the subject-matter in

Money paid at fairs for breaking ground for booths.

A particular officer serving on board a ship during the course of a voyage, and having the charge of the helm and the ship’s route; or a person taken on board at

In old Scotch law. An excavation or cavity in the earth in which women who were under sentence of death were drowned.

In old English law. A public assembly at which the king presided, and which comprised men of all degrees, met for consultation about the great affairs of the kingdom. Cowell. A court;

In old English law. A suit or action. Thus, the power to “hold pleas” is the power to take cognizance of actions or suits; so “common pleas” are actions or suits between