Category: P

In old ecclesiastical law. A godfather. Spelman.

The person receiving a pawn, or to whom a pawn Is made; the person to whom goods are delivered by another in pledge.

n the civil law. The unlawful appropriation, by a depositary of public funds, of the property of the government intrusted to bis care, to his own use, or that of others. Domat.

A woman who belongs to the nobility, which may lie either in her own right or by right of marriage.

Suspense; tbe state of being pendent or undecided; the state of an action, etc.. after it has been begun, and before the final disposition of it.

The state or condition of a peou as above defined; a condition of en- forced servitude, by which the servitor is restrained of his liberty and compelled to labor in liquidation of

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

The party delivering goods in pledge; the party pledging. Story, Bailm.

An allowance of wood which tenants are entitled to, for repairing their plows and other implements of husbandry. PLOW-LAND 907 PLUS VALET CONSUETUDO