Category: P

A particular meadow or pasture land set apart to feed cattle.

Lat. A shepherd. Applied to a minister of the Christian religion, who has charge of a congregation, Iieuce called his “flock.” See First Presbyterian Church v. Myers, 5 Okl. 809, 50 Pac.

One who has killed his father. As to the punishment of that offense by the Roman law, see Sandars’ Just Inst. (5th Ed.) 496.

A person so poor that he must be supported at public expense; also a suitor who, on account of poverty, is allowed to sue or defend without being chargeable with costs. In

Fr. Country. Trial per pays, trial by jury, (the country.) See PAIS.

Lineage ; line of ancestors from which a person descends; genealogy. An account or register of a line of ancestors. Family relationship. Swink v. French, 11 Lea (Tenn.) 80, 47 Am. Bep.

An officer in the English exchequer, who entered every seller’s bill on the parchment rolls, the roll of receipts, and the roll of disbursements.

Lat. In the civil law. A payment, properly, for the use of a thing. A rent; a payment for the use and occupation of another’s house.

An abbreviation of the Latin “per vent am,” meaning by the hundred, or so many parts in the hundred, or so many hundredths. See Blakeslee v. Mansfield. 00 111. App. 119; Code

Lat. A real action by which the grantee of a seigniory could compel the tenants of the grantor to attorn to himself. It was abolished by St 3 & 4 Wm. IV.

A perch of land; sixteen and one-half feet. See PEIICH.

In old practice. Parchment. In pcrgamcno scribi fccit. 1 And. 54.

A writ to an ordinary, commanding him to admit a clerk to a benefice upon exchange made with another. Reg. Orig. 307.

In modern civil law. The incidence of a law or statute upon persons, or that quality which makes it a personal law rather than a real law. “By the personality of laws,

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A practitioner of medicine; a person duly authorized or licensed to treat diseases; one lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine, without reference to any particular school. State v. Beck, 21 R.

Lat. In the civil law. A pledge or pawn; a delivery of a thing to a creditor, as security for a debt. Also a thing delivered to a creditor as security for

See CHARITABLE USES.

In old English law. The public assemblies of all degrees of men where the sovereign presided, who usually consulted upon the great affairs of the kingdom. Also pleas, pleadings, or debates, and

is called the “use plaintiff.” PLAN. A map, chart, or design; being a delineation or projection on a plane surface of the ground lines of a house, farm, street, city, etc., reduced