Category: P

Lat. Pending; as lis pendens, a pending suit.

In Spanish-American law. A lot of land of fifty feet front, and one hundred feet deep. Originally the portion granted to foot-soldiers of spoils taken or lands conquered in war

Lat. Through inadvertence. 35 Eng. Law & Eq. 302.

Lat In the civil law. By an aggregate or whole; as an entirety. The term described the acquisition of an entire estate by one act or fact, as distinguished from the acquisition

Lat In Roman law. The class of peregrini embraced at the same time both those who had no capacity in law, (capacity for rights or jural relations,) namely, the slaves, and the

Circumlocution ; use of many words to express the sense of one.

Purchase. Acquisition by one’s own act or agreement, and not by descent.

In Spanish law. The claim or right which one has to the property in anything; the territory which belongs to any one by way of jurisdiction or property; that which is accessory

Lat In Roman law. I request A common word by which a fldeicommis- sum, or trust, was created in a will. Inst 2, 24, 3.

In Scotch law. Petty theft; stealing of trifles, punishable arbitrarily. Bell.

The navigation of a vessel by a pilot; the duty of a pilot. The charge or compensation allowed for piloting a vessel.

In Scotch law. A privilege of inflicting capital punishment for theft, given by King Malcolm, by which a woman could be drowned In a pit, (fossa.) or a man hanged on a

A day past or lost to the defendant. 1 Hen. I. c. 59.

To make, deliver, or file any pleading; to conduct the pleadings in a cause. To interpose any pleading in a suit which contains allegations of fact; iu this sei’.se the word is

In old English law. That may be pledged; the subject of pledge or security. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 20,

The Monday after twelfth-day.

This word is used as au adjective iu several compound legal phrases, carrying a meaning suggestive of, or analogous to, its signification as a pouch, bag, or secret receptacle. For these phrases,

In Hindu law. The head of a village or district; also a military chieftain In the peninsula, answering to a hill zemindar in the northern drears. Wharton.

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