Category: P

the nature or partaking of the qualities of human beings, or of movable property. As to personal “Action,” “Assets,” “Chattels,” “Contract,” “Covenant,” “Credit,” “De- mand,” “Disability,” “Franchise,” “Injury,” “Judgment,” “Knowledge,” “Law,” “Liability.”

A verdict whereby the jury refuse to follow the direction of the judge on a point of law.

Any person who makes for sale photographs, ambrotypes, daguerrotypes, or pictures, by the action of light. Act Cong. July 13, 1866,

Lat. In the civil law. An action of pledge, or founded on a pledge, which was either directa, for the debtor, after payment of the debt, or con- traria, for the creditor.

A pounder of cattle; a pound- keeper.

One who exercises a public employment, or fills a public statiou.

Fr. An obsolete term for an attorney who pleaded the cause of his client; an advocate. PLAIN STATEMENT is one that may be readily understood, uot merely by lawyers, but by all

One who Is classed among the common people, as distinguished from the nobles.

Full; entire; complete; unabridged. In the ecclesiastical courts, (and in admiralty practice,) causes are divided into plena ry and summary. The former are those in whose proceedings the order and solemnity of

Containing more than one; consisting of or designating two or more. Webster.

Police is the function of that branch of the administrative machinery of government which is charged with the preservation of public order and tranquillity, the promotion of the public health, safety, and

In old pleading. An apple-tree ; an orchard

An action for a statutory penalty or forfeiture, given to any such person or persons as will sue for it; an action given to the people in general. 3 Bl. Comm. 100.

The burgesses of Ipswich and of the Cinque Ports were so called.

To date an instrument as of a time later than that at which it is really made.

A senior barrister in the court of exchequer, who has precedence in motions; so called from the place where he sits. 2 Bl. Comm. 28. A letter-carrier.

To put together in sorts with a fraudulent design. To pack a jury is to use unlawful, improper, or deceitful means to have the Jury made up of persons favorably disposed to

In the practice of legislative bodies, this is the name given to a species of negative proxies, by which two members, who belong to opposite parties or are on opposite sides with

A common of pannage is the right of feeding swine on mast and acorns at certain seasons in a commonable wood or forest. Elton, Commons, 25; Williams, Common, 168. Pannagium est pastas

Lat. I have him in readiness. The return by the sheriff to a capias ad respondendum, signifying that he has the defendant in readiness to be brought into court