PONENDIS IN ASSISIS
An old writ directing a sheriff to impanel a jury for an assize or real action.
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An old writ directing a sheriff to impanel a jury for an assize or real action.
Producing for examination or taxation, as porrectiug a bill of costs, by a proctor.
Laid down, enacted, or prescribed. Express or affirmative. Direct, ab- solute, explicit. As to positive “Condition,” “Evidence,” “Fraud,” “Proof,” and “Servitude,” see those titles.
The roads or highways, by land or sea, designated by law as the ave- nues over which the mails shall be transported. Railway Mail Service Cases, 13 Ct. CI. 204. A “post
Lat. Possibility; power.
A bargain; compact; agreement. This word Is used in writings on Roman law and on general jurisprudence as tlie English form of the Latin “pactum,” (which see.)
Lat. In the civil law. Openly ; In the presence of many. Dig. 50, 16, 33.
In commercial law. Equal; equality. An equality subsisting between the nominal or face value of a bill of exchange, share of stock, etc., and its actual selling value. When the values are
A parcel of land.
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