Category: P

Plunder; the forcible taking of private property by an invading or con- quering army from the enemy’s subjects. American Ins. Co. v. Bryan, 26 Wend. (N. Y.) 573, 37 Am. Dec. 278.

The right or privilege of fishing. Thus, common of piscary is the right of fishing in waters belonging to another person.

Belating to pleas or pleading.

A Spanish word, meaning a public square in a city or town. Sachs Y. Towanda, 79 111. App. 441

Suretyship, or au undertaking or answering for another. Gloucester Bank v. Worcester, 10 Pick. (Mass.) 531.

The ancient payment of a penny to the church from every plow-land. 1 Mon. Angl. 256.

In English criminal law. The unlawful eutry upou land for the purpose of taking or destroying game; the taking or destruction of game upon another’s laud, usually committed at night. Steph. Crim.

Trees which have been lopped; distinguished from timber-trees. Plowd. 049.

Lat. He puts himself upon the country. The defendant’s plea of uot guilty in a criminal action is recorded, in English practice, in these words, or in the abbreviated form “po. Sc

In old Scotch practice. A roll or catalogue containing the names of in dicted persons, delivered by the justice-clerk to the coroner, to be attached and arrested by him. Otherwise called the

Lat A possibility. A thing is said to be in posse when it may possibly be; in esse when it actually is.

In the common-law practice, a formal statement, indorsed on the nisi prius record, which gives an account of the proceedings at the trial of the action. Smith, Act. 167.

A term formerly applied to voters in certain boroughs of England, where all who boil (wallop) a pot were entitled to vote. Webster.

Lat. In the civil law. A pact. An agreement or convention without specific name, and without consideration, which, however, might, in its nature, produce a civil obligation. Heinecc. Elem. lib. 3, tit.

In old English law. An ancient custom, where children were born out of wedlock, and their parents afterwards intermarried. The children, together with the father and mother, stood under a cloth extended

Above; upwards. That which is superior; usually applied to the highest lord of the fee of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, as distinguished from the mesne (or intermediate) lord. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 135.

A park, (q. v.) A pound for stray cattle. Spelman.

The judgment of peers; trial by a jury of one’s peers or equals.

In French law. A division made between co-proprietors of a particular estate held by them in common. It is the operation by means of which the goods of a succession are divided

A person concerned or having or taking part in any affair, matter, transaction, or proceeding, considered individually. See PARTIES. The term “parties” includes all persons who are directly interested in the subject-