Category: P

To put off; defer; delay; continue; adjourn; as when a hearing is postponed. Also to place after; to set below something else; as when an earlier lien is for some reason postponed

A horse load, which consists of seventeen stone and two pounds, or two huudred and forty pounds weight. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 12; Cowell.

Pr. The country; the neighborhood. A trial per pais signifies a trial by the country; that is, by jury. An assurance by matter in pais is an assurance transacted between two or

The act of impaneling a jury.

Lat. He is ready to verify. The Latin form for concluding a pleading with a verification, (q. v.)

Lat. Of the same matter; on the same subject; as, laws pari materia must be construed with reference to each other. Bac. Abr. “Statute,” I, 3.

In French law. 1. The magistrates who are charged with the conduct of proceedings in criminal cases and misdemeanors. 2. That part of the bourse which is reserved for stock-brokers.

The persons who take part in the performance of any act, or who are directly interested in any affair, contract, or conveyance, or who are actively concerned in the prosecution and defense

In old English law and practice. Easter. Do termino Pascha, of the term of Easter. Bract, fol. 240&.

In Spanish law. Feeding; pasture; a right of pasture. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit 1, c. 6,

The chief bishop over several countries or provinces, as an archbishop is of several dioceses. Godb. 20.

Lat. An uncle by the father’s side; a father’s brother.

COURT OP Ga. 27, 11 S. E. 721; HufTmans v. Walker, 26 Grat. (Va.) 316. By “payment” is meant not only the delivery of a sum of money, when such is the

In criminal law. The unnatural carnal copulation of male with male, particularly of a man with a boy; a form of sodomy, (q. v.)

The ball of a foot. 4 Inst. 308.

The full weight of twenty ounces.

Lat. By the heads or polls; according to the number of individuals: share and share alike. This term, derived from the civil law, is much used in the law of descent and

By proxy; by one acting as an agent with special powers; as under a letter of attorney. These words “give notice to all persons that the agent is actiug under a special

In English law. The name of a writ which is sued by consent of both parties when they are in doubt as to the bounds of their respective estates. It is directed

The fulfillment or accomplishment of a promise, contract, or other obligation according to its terms.