Category: P

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

As used in law, this term means inactive; permissive; consisting in endurance or submission, rather than action; and iu some connections it carries the implication of being subjected to a burden or

Lat. The country, neighborhood, or vicinage; the men of the neighborhood ; a jury of the vicinage. Synonymous, in this sense, with “pais.” Patria laboribns et expensis non debet fatigari. A jury

The proprietors of certain manors created in New York in colonial times were so called.

An officer of the army or navy whose duty is to keep the pay-accounts and pay the wages of the officers and men. Any official charged with the disbursement of public money.

Itinerant traders; persons who sell small wares, which they carry with them in traveling about from place to place. In re Wilson. 19 D. C. 341, 12 L. It. A. t’,24 ;

A pilch or surplice. Spelman.

An English coin, being the twelfth part of a shilling. It was also used in America during the colonial period.

Lat. By the year. A phrase still in common use. Ramsdell v. llulett. 50 Kan. 440, 31 Pac. 1002; State v. McFotridge. 04 Wis. 130, 24 N. W. 140; Ilaney v. Caldwell,