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A small parcel of land inclosed with a hedge, which, in some countries, is called a “pingle.” Enc. Lond.

A very singular and odious kind of tenure mentioned by the old writers, “Wilhelmus Hoppeshort tenet di- midiam virgatam terrce per servitium cus- todiendi sex damisellas, sett, meretrices ad usum domini regis.”

In medical Jurisprudence. A term of recent introduction to medical science, signifying curability by means of persuasion, and used as synonymous with “hysteria,” in effect limiting the scope of the latter term

The act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of

A person whose business it is to draw pleadings. Formerly, when pleading at common law was a highly technical and difficult art, there was a class of men known as “special pleaders

Pledges to return the subject of distress, should the right be determined agaiust the party bringing the action of replevin. 3 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 422n.

Lat. In the civil law. Soldering. Dig. (J, 1, 23, 5.

The process of the law of Scotland which answers to the distress of the English law. Poinding is of three kinds: Ileal poinding or poinding of the ground. This is tlie action

The place where electors cast In their votes. Heads; individuals; persons singly considered. A challenge to the polls (in capita) is a challenge to the individual jurors composing the panel, or an

As used in law, this term denotes those who are so destitute of property or of the means of support, either from their own labor or the care of relatives, as to

The share falling to a child from a parent’s estate or the estate of any one bearing a similar relation. State v. Crossley, GO Ind. 209; Lewis’s Appeal, 108 Pa. 136; In

An uncertain thing which may happen. A contingent interest in real or personal estate. Kinzie v. Winston, 14 Fed. Cas. 651; Bodenhamer v. Welch. 89 N. C. 78; Needles v. Needles, 7

All the descendants of a person in a direct line to the remotest gen POSTHUMOUS CHILD 920 POTENTIAL eration. Breckinridge v. Denny, 8 Bush (Ky.) 027.

In old English law. A toll for passage through another’s land. The same as “pedage.”

In Spanish law. Payment. Las Partldas, pt. 5, tit. 14, L 1. Payamcnto, sat- isfaction.

The name given in Pennsylvania to the publication, iu pamphlet or book form, containing the acts passed by the state legislature at each of its biennial sessions.

In the civil law. The separate property of a married woman, other than that which is included in her dowry, or dos. The separate property of the wife is divided Into dotal

Part of a sentence occurring in the middle thereof, and inclosed between marks like ( ), the omission of which part would not injure the grammatical construction of the rest of the

In municipal law and administration. A strip of land, lying either in the middle of the street or in the space between the building line and the sidewalk, or between the sidewalk

Relating to or constituting a part; not complete; not entire or universal.