Category: P

Poundage of cattle.

An old form of the word “pleas.” Thus tho “Court of Common Fleas” was sometimes called the “Court of Common Place.

Pestilence; a contagious and malignant fever.

In old English ecclesiastical law. A rural dean. Cowell.

In English law. Fullness; a state of being full. A term applied to a benefice when full, or possessed by au incumbent The opposite state to a vacation, or vacancy. Cowell.

In maritime law. The embezzlement of goods on board of a ship is so called.

A measure of length, equal to five yards and a half. POLICE 909 POLICY

A term sometimes used to denote a government of many or several; a government where the sovereignty is shared by several persons; a collegiate or divided executive.

The vulgar; the multitude.

One who receives a portion; the allottee of a portion. One of two or more Incumbents of the same ecclesiastical benefice.

An after-act; an act done afterwards.

See POSTLIMINIUM.

The act of making peace between two hostile or belligerent states; re-establishment of public tranquility.

It is held that colored Imitations of rugs and carpets and colored working designs, each of them valuable and designed by skilled persons and hand painted, but having no value as works

Lat. In old English law. Bread; loaf; a loaf. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 9.

In the civil law. Notes or abstracts prefixed to titles of law, giving a summary of their contents. Cod. 1, 17, 1 12.

In medical jurisprudence. Progressive general paralysis, involving or leading to the form of insanity known as “dementia paralytica.” Popularly, but not very correctly, called “softening of the brain.” See INSANITY.

In military law. A promise given by a prisoner of war, when he has leave to depart from custody, that he will return at the time appointed, unless discharged. Webster. An engagement

The details of a claim, or the separate items of an account. When these are stated in an orderly form, for the information of a defendant, the statement is called a “bill

In French. Precedence; right of going foremost