Category: P

In old English law. A toll or tax paid by travelers for the privilege of passiug, on foot or mounted, through a forest or other protected place. Spelman.

Booty; also the personal effects of a felon convict. Cowell.

A prison or place of punishment; the place of punishment in which convicts sentenced to confinement and hard labor are confined by the authority of the law. Millar v. State, 2 Kan.

To come in in the per is to claim by or through the person last entitled to an estate; as the heirs or assigns of the grantee. To come in in the

Lat. By the law of the land; by due process of law. U. S v. Kendall. 20 Fed. Cas. 74S; Appeal of Ervine, 10 Pa. 203. 55 Am. Dec. 499; Ithinehart v.

Lat In old English law. By view ol’ the church ; under the supervision of the church. The disposi- tion of intestates’ goods per visum ecciesiw was one of the articles confirmed

Imperative; absolute; not admitting of question, delay, or recon PEREMPTORY 892 PERIL sideration. Positive; final; decisive; not admitting of any alternative. Self-determined ; arbitrary; not requiring any cause to be shown.

A license to do a thing; an authority to do an act which, without such authority, would have been unlawful.

Lat. In the civil law. Character, in virtue of which certain rights belong to a man and certain duties are im- posed upon him. Thus one man may unite many characters, (persona;,)

In the English ecclesiastical courts, a “suit for perturbation of seat” is the technical name for an action growing out of a disturbance or infringement of one’s right to a pew or

A watch-tower, light-house, or sea-mark.

A structure extending from the solid land out Into the water of a river, lake, harbor, etc., to afford convenient passage for persons and property to and from vessels along the sides

In old English law. Butler ; the king’s butler, whose office it was to select out of the cargo of every vessel laden with wine, one cask at the prow and another

An edict; a declaration; a manifesto. Also an advertisement or public notification.

Lat. In the civil law. Man-stealing; kidnapping. The offense of enticing away and stealing men, children, and slaves. Calvin. The persuading a slave to escape from his master, or tlie concealing or

The pleadings are the formal allegations by the parties of their respective claims and defenses, for the Judgment of the court. Code Civ. Proc. Cal. 8 420. The individual allegations of the

In the civil law. A term used to signify full proof, (that is, proof by two witnesses,) in contradistinction to semi-plena probatio, which is only a pre- sumption. Cod. 4, 19, 5.

The most common meaning of the term “to plunder” is to take property from persons or places by open force, and this may be in course of a lawful war, or by

In medical jurisprudence. A substance having an inherent deleterious property which renders it, when taken into the system, capable of destroying life. 2 Whart. & S. Med. Jur.

In criminal law. The offense of having several wives or husbands at the same time, or more than one wife or husband at the same time. 3 Inst. 88. And see Reynolds