Category: P

In the ancient rorest laws. Au arrow which had a round knob a little above the head, to hinder it from going far into the mark. Cowell.

In criminal law. A robbery or forcible depredation on the high seas, without lawful authority, done animo fur- audi, in the spirit and intention of universal hostility. United States v. Palmer, 3

In old records. The pleading of a cause. Spelman.

n English law. A colony; an original settlement in a new country. See 1 Bl. Comm. 107. In American law. A farm; a large cultivated estate. Used chiefly in the southern states.

Lat. In Roman law. A law enacted by the plebs or commonalty, (that Is, the citizens, with the exception of the patricians and senators,) at the request or on the proposition of

In old English law. An estate, with the habit and quality of the land; ex- tending to a rent charge and to a possibility of dower. Co. Litt. 2216; Cowell.

Lat In Scotch practice. A demand of more than is due. Bell. Plus exempla quam peccata nocent. Examples hurt more than crimes. Plus peccat author quam actor. The originator or instigator of

The form of government; civil constitution.

An old writ directing a sheriff to impanel a jury for an assize or real action.

Producing for examination or taxation, as porrectiug a bill of costs, by a proctor.

Laid down, enacted, or prescribed. Express or affirmative. Direct, ab- solute, explicit. As to positive “Condition,” “Evidence,” “Fraud,” “Proof,” and “Servitude,” see those titles.

The roads or highways, by land or sea, designated by law as the ave- nues over which the mails shall be transported. Railway Mail Service Cases, 13 Ct. CI. 204. A “post

Lat. Possibility; power.

Lat. In the civil law. A bargaining or agreeing of which pactum (the agreement itself) was the result. Calvin. It is used, however, as the synonym of “pactum.”

Possessing royal privileges. See COUNTY PALATINE.

Error in the computation of time.

The state or condition of holding title to lands jointly by parceners or co-parceners, before a division of the joint estate.

See DECLARATION.

The rector of a church; one that has full possession of all the rights of a parochial church. The appellation of “parson,” however it may be depreciated by familiar, clownish, and indiscriminate

A voluntary contract between two or more competent persons to place their money, effects, labor, and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, with the understanding that