Category: P

A Spanish word, meaning a public square in a city or town. Sachs Y. Towanda, 79 111. App. 441

Suretyship, or au undertaking or answering for another. Gloucester Bank v. Worcester, 10 Pick. (Mass.) 531.

The ancient payment of a penny to the church from every plow-land. 1 Mon. Angl. 256.

In English criminal law. The unlawful eutry upou land for the purpose of taking or destroying game; the taking or destruction of game upon another’s laud, usually committed at night. Steph. Crim.

Trees which have been lopped; distinguished from timber-trees. Plowd. 049.

Lat. He puts himself upon the country. The defendant’s plea of uot guilty in a criminal action is recorded, in English practice, in these words, or in the abbreviated form “po. Sc

In old Scotch practice. A roll or catalogue containing the names of in dicted persons, delivered by the justice-clerk to the coroner, to be attached and arrested by him. Otherwise called the

Lat A possibility. A thing is said to be in posse when it may possibly be; in esse when it actually is.

In the common-law practice, a formal statement, indorsed on the nisi prius record, which gives an account of the proceedings at the trial of the action. Smith, Act. 167.

A term formerly applied to voters in certain boroughs of England, where all who boil (wallop) a pot were entitled to vote. Webster.

In international law. Contracts between nations which are to be per- formed by a single act, and of which execution is at an end at once. 1 Bouv. Inst. no. 100. Pactis

In old English law. A merchant denizen ; one born within the Eng-

A part or section of a statute, pleading, affidavit, etc., which contains one article, the sense of which is complete. McClellan v. Hein, 56 Neb. GOO, 77 N. W. 120; Hill v.

Sheep-skins dressed for writing, so called from Pergumus, Asia Minor, where they were invented. Used for deeds, and used for writs of summons in England previous to the judicature act, 1875. Wharton.

A beadle; a summoner to the courts of civil law. Parium eadem est ratio, idem jns. Of things equal, the reason is the same, and the same is the law.

A portion, share, or purpart One of two duplicate originals of a conveyance or covenant, the other being called “counterpart.” Also, in composition, partial or incomplete; as part payment, part performance. Cairo

Lat Child; offspring; the child just before it is born, or immediately after its birth. Partus ex legitimo thoro non certius noscit matrem quam genitorem suum. Fortes. 42. The offspring of a

A way over water; an easement giving the right to pass over a piece of private water. Travel by sea; a voyage over water; the carriage of passengers by water; money paid

Lat. A father; the father. In the civil law. this word sometimes included arus, (grandfather.) Dig. 50, 16, 201.

In old ecclesiastical law. A godfather. Spelman.