Category: P

A county. Jacob.

A compilation of Roman law, consisting of selected passages from the writings of the most authoritative of the older jurists, methodically arranged, prepared by Tribonian with the assistance of sixteen associates, under

Fr. In French law. All the wife’s properly which is not subject to the riqime dotal is called by this name; and of these articles the wife has the entire administration; but

One who murders

A hill where courts were anciently held. Cowell.

Lat. In Roman law. A legatee who was entitled, by the directions of the will, to receive a share or portion of the inheritance left to the heir. PARTICEPS. Lat. A participant;

Petty serjeanty, (

In English law. A kind of permit, being a note or check which the toll-clerks on some canals give to the boatmen, specifying the lading for which they have paid toll. Wharton.

Hanged on a gibbet.

In English ecclesiastical law. The right of presentation to a church or ecclesiastical benefice; the same with advowson, (q. v.) 2 Bl. Comm. 21. The right of appointing to office, considered as

A sum of money is said to be payable when a person is under an obliga- tion to pay it. “Payable” may therefore signify an obligation to pay at a future time,

Lat. In Roman law. Cattle; a beast. Under a bequest of pccudes were in- cluded oxen and other beasts of burdeu. Dig. 32, 81, 2.

Booty; also the personal effects of a felon convict. Cowell.

A prison or place of punishment; the place of punishment in which convicts sentenced to confinement and hard labor are confined by the authority of the law. Millar v. State, 2 Kan.

To come in in the per is to claim by or through the person last entitled to an estate; as the heirs or assigns of the grantee. To come in in the

Lat. By the law of the land; by due process of law. U. S v. Kendall. 20 Fed. Cas. 74S; Appeal of Ervine, 10 Pa. 203. 55 Am. Dec. 499; Ithinehart v.

Lat In old English law. By view ol’ the church ; under the supervision of the church. The disposi- tion of intestates’ goods per visum ecciesiw was one of the articles confirmed

Imperative; absolute; not admitting of question, delay, or recon PEREMPTORY 892 PERIL sideration. Positive; final; decisive; not admitting of any alternative. Self-determined ; arbitrary; not requiring any cause to be shown.

A license to do a thing; an authority to do an act which, without such authority, would have been unlawful.

Lat. In the civil law. Character, in virtue of which certain rights belong to a man and certain duties are im- posed upon him. Thus one man may unite many characters, (persona;,)