Category: P

An action for a statutory penalty or forfeiture, given to any such person or persons as will sue for it; an action given to the people in general. 3 Bl. Comm. 100.

The burgesses of Ipswich and of the Cinque Ports were so called.

To date an instrument as of a time later than that at which it is really made.

A senior barrister in the court of exchequer, who has precedence in motions; so called from the place where he sits. 2 Bl. Comm. 28. A letter-carrier.

To put together in sorts with a fraudulent design. To pack a jury is to use unlawful, improper, or deceitful means to have the Jury made up of persons favorably disposed to

In the practice of legislative bodies, this is the name given to a species of negative proxies, by which two members, who belong to opposite parties or are on opposite sides with

A common of pannage is the right of feeding swine on mast and acorns at certain seasons in a commonable wood or forest. Elton, Commons, 25; Williams, Common, 168. Pannagium est pastas

Lat. I have him in readiness. The return by the sheriff to a capias ad respondendum, signifying that he has the defendant in readiness to be brought into court

Lat. With equal right; upon an equal footing; equivalent in rights or claims.

L. Fr. Words of law; technical words. Parols font plea. Words make the plea. 5 Mod. 458.

Span. Part; a part. See LAS PARTIDAS.

The passover; Easter.

In international law. A document issued to a neutral merchant vessel, by her owu government, during the progress of a war, and to be carried on the voyage, containing a sufficient description

Lat In Roman law. Paternal authority; the paternal power. This term denotes the aggregate of those peculiar powers and rights which, by the civil law of Rome, belonged to the head of

Lat. In the civil law. A cousin-germau by the father’s side; the son or daughter of a father’s brother. Wharton.

The performance of a duty, promise, or obligation, or discharge of a debt or liability, by the delivery of money or other value. Also the money or other thing so delivered. Brady

In old English and Scotch law. Dusty-foot. A term applied to itinerant merchants, chapmen, or peddlers who attended fairs.

A leather-seller or skinner. Jacob.

A Troy weight, equal to twenty-four grains, or one-twentieth part of an ounce.

Lat. In the civil law. By turning away. A term applied to that kind of sale where the goods are taken in bulk, and not by weight or measure, and for a