Category: P

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.

Lat. By misadventure. In- criminal law. homicide per in- fortunium is committed where a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of hurt, unfortunately kills another. 4 Bl. Comm. 182.

Lat By words of tlie future [tense.] A plirase applied to contracts of marriage. 1 Bl. Comm. 439; 2 Kent Comm. 87.

A nonsuit; also a quashing or killing.

In criminal law. The willful assertion as to a matter of fact, opinion, belief, or knowledge, made by a witness in a judicial proceeding as part of his evidence, either upon oath

Lat. In the civil law. A following after ; a pursuing at law; a suit or prosecution. Properly that kind of judicial proceeding before the prretor which was called “extraordinary.” In a

A pittance; a small portion of alms or victuals. Also certain poor scholars of the Isle of Man. Cowell.

A lawyer who is em- ployed in a small or mean business, or who carries on a disreputable business by unprincipled or dishonorable means. “We think that the term ‘pettifogging shyster” needed