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An old writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to charge one or more to repair a bridge.

A kind of duty formerly paid at the English custom-house to those who attended the water-side, and belonged to the package-ollice; but it is uow abolished. Also the charge made for sending

Possessio fratris de f eodo simplici facit sororem esse hseredem. The brother’s pos POSSESSIO PACIFICA 916 POSSESSION session of an estate in fee-simple makes the sister to be heir. 3 Coke, 41;

Lat. This term was used by the Romans to denote the descendants in a direct line beyond the sixth degree.

The ownership of a thing is the right of one or more persons to possess and use it to the exclusion of others. In this Code, the thing of which there may

A small inclosure for deer or other animals.

A small book, bound in paper covers, usually printed in the octavo form, aud stitched. See U. S. v. Chase, 135 U. S. 255, 10 Sup. Ct. 756, 34 L. Ed. 117.

See PARAPHERNALIA.

The lawful father or the mother of a person. Appeal of Gibson, 154 Mass. 378, 28 N. E. 290. This word is dis- tinguished from “ancestors” in including only the immediate progenitors

A park-keeper.

In old pleading. The parties to the fine had nothing; that is, had no estate which could be conveyed by It. A plea to a fine which had been levied by a

Lat Little; but little. Parum cavet natura. Nature takes little heed. Vandenlieuvel v. United Ins. Co., 2 Johns. Cas. (N. Y.) 127, 166.

He who has the interest or command of the passage of a river; or a lord to whom a duty Is paid for passage. Wharton.

In medical jurisprudence. The science or doctrine of diseases. That part of medicine which explains the nature of diseases, their causes, and their symptoms. See Bacon v. U. S. Mut. Acc. Ass’n,

A policeman assigned to duty in patrolling a certain beat or district; also the designation of a grade or rank in the organized police force of large cities, a patrolman being generally

Lat. The peace of the king; that is, the peace, good order, and security for life and property which it is one of the objects of government to maintain, and which the

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.