Category: P

In Spanish law. Commons: those who exercise any trade, or who cultivate the soil. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 5, c. 3.

One who has full power to do a thing; a person fully commis- sioned to act for another. A term applied In international law to ministers and envoys of the second rank

In the plural. 10 East, 158, arg.

A mercantile instrument in writing, by which one party, in consideration of a premium, engages to indemnify another against a contingent loss, by making him a payment in compensation, whenever the event

In old English law. Poundage;

Lat. In Roman law. A law enacted by the people; a law passed by an assembly of the Roman people, In the eoniitia centuriata, on the motion of a sena- tor; differing

In the civil law. Duties paid in ports on merchandise. Taxes levied in old times at city gates. Tolls for passing over bridges.

An after-act; an act done afterwards; a post-act.

Borough- English, (q. v.)

A package means a bundle put up for transportation or commercial handling; a thing in form to become, as such, au article of merchandise or delivery from hand to hand. A parcel

Ordinary conveyances between two or more persons in tlie country; i. e., upon the land to be transferred.

A written or printed document or instrument. A document filed or introduced in evidence in a suit at law, as, In the phrase “papers in the case” and in “papers on appeal.”

Inferior; subordinate. Tenant paravail signified the lowest tenant of land, being the tenant of a mesne lord. He was so called because he was supposed to make “avail” or profit of the

Lat. By an equal progress ; equably; ratably; without preference. Coote, Mortg. 56.

The crime of killing one’s father; also a person guilty of killing his father.

Lat. In the civil law. Partition; division. This word did not always signify dimidium, a dividing into halves. Dig. 50, 16, 164, 1.

A particular meadow or pasture land set apart to feed cattle.

Lat. A shepherd. Applied to a minister of the Christian religion, who has charge of a congregation, Iieuce called his “flock.” See First Presbyterian Church v. Myers, 5 Okl. 809, 50 Pac.

One who has killed his father. As to the punishment of that offense by the Roman law, see Sandars’ Just Inst. (5th Ed.) 496.

A person so poor that he must be supported at public expense; also a suitor who, on account of poverty, is allowed to sue or defend without being chargeable with costs. In