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In English law. A branch of and annexed to the court of arches. It has a jurisdiction over all those PECULIUM 885 PEDIS POSSESSIO parishes dispersed through the province of Canterbury, in

L. Fr. In old English law. A special form of punishment for those who, being arraigned for felony, obstinately “stood mute;” that is, refused to plead or to put themselves upon trial.

In Scotch law. A piece or parcel of ground.

A dried berry of the black pepper. In English law, the reservation of a merely nominal rent, on a lease, is sometimes expressed by a stipulation for the payment of a peppercorn.

Lat. In old English law. By human industry. A term applied to the reclaiming or taming of wild animals by art, industry, and education. 2 Bl. Comm. 391.

L. Lat. In old practice., By gage. Words in the old writs of attachment or pone, 3 Bl. Comm. 280. Per varios actus legem experlentla facit. By various acts experience frames the

In ecclesiastical procedure an appeal is said to be perempted when the appellant has by his own act waived or barred his right of appeal; as where he partially complies with or

To come to an eud; to cease to be; to die. PERISHA3LE ordinarily means subject to speedy and natural decay. But. where the time contemplated is necessarily long, the terra may embrace

In old English law. A purchaser; one who first acquired an estate to his family; one who acquired an estate by sale, by gift, or by any other method, except only that

The fourth part of an acre. Cowell.

A stone weight. Cowell.

by members of a trade union on strike, consists in posting members PICKLE 899 PIN-MONEY at all the approaches to the works struck against, for the purpose of observing and re- porting

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.