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POLYGAMY

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

POPERY

The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending doctrines aud practices.

PORTIONER

In old English law. A minister who serves a benefice, together with others; so called because lie has only a portion of the tithes or profits of the living; also an allowance

POST

Lat. After; occurring in a report or a text-book, is used to send the reader to a subsequent part of the book.

POSTLIMINIUM

Lat. In the civil- law. A doctrine or fiction of the law by which the restoration of a person to auy status or right formerly possessed by him was considered as relating

PACE

A measure of length containing two feet and a half, being the ordinary length of a step.

PANEL

The roll or slip of parchment returned by the sheriff in obedience to a venire facias, containing the names of the persons whom he has summoned to attend the court as jurymen.

PARASCEVE

The sixth day of the last week in Lent, particularly called “Good Friday.” In English law, it is a dies non juridicus.

PARERGON

One work executed In the intervals of another; a subordinate task. Particularly, the name of a work on the Canons, in great repute, by Ayliffe.

PARLIAMENT

The supreme legislative assembly of Great Britain and Ireland, consisting of the king or queen and the three estates of the realm, viz., the lords spiritual, the lords temporal, and the commons.

PARVISE

An afternoon’s exercise or moot for the instruction of young students, bearing the same name originally with the Parvisice (little-go) of Oxford. Wharton. PARVUM CAPE 879 PASSENGER

PASSIO

Pannage; a liberty for hogs to run in forests or woods to feed upon mast Mon. Angl. 1, 682.

PATIBTILUM

In old English law. A gallows or gibbet. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 3,

PATRONATUS

Lat. In Roman law. The condition, relation, right, or duty of a patron. In ecclesiastical law. Patronage, (q. v.) Patronum facinnt dos, acdificatio, fnndns. Dod. Adv. 7. Endowment, building, and land make

PAYEE

In mercantile law. The person in whose favor a bill of exchange, promissory note, or check is made or drawn; the person to whom or to whose order a bill, note, or

PEDAGE

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.

PENITENTIARY

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.

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