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POSTERITY

All the descendants of a person in a direct line to the remotest gen POSTHUMOUS CHILD 920 POTENTIAL eration. Breckinridge v. Denny, 8 Bush (Ky.) 027.

PAAGE

In old English law. A toll for passage through another’s land. The same as “pedage.”

PAGA

In Spanish law. Payment. Las Partldas, pt. 5, tit. 14, L 1. Payamcnto, sat- isfaction.

PAMPHLET LAWS

The name given in Pennsylvania to the publication, iu pamphlet or book form, containing the acts passed by the state legislature at each of its biennial sessions.

PARAPHERNALIA

In the civil law. The separate property of a married woman, other than that which is included in her dowry, or dos. The separate property of the wife is divided Into dotal

PARENTHESIS

Part of a sentence occurring in the middle thereof, and inclosed between marks like ( ), the omission of which part would not injure the grammatical construction of the rest of the

PARKING

In municipal law and administration. A strip of land, lying either in the middle of the street or in the space between the building line and the sidewalk, or between the sidewalk

PARTIAL

Relating to or constituting a part; not complete; not entire or universal.

PARUM CAVISSE VIDETUR

Lat. In Roman law. He seems to have taken too little care; he seems to have been incautious, or not sufficiently upon his guard. A form of expression used by the judge

PASSENGER

A person whom a common carrier has contracted to carry from one place to another, and has, in the course of PASSIAGIARIU9 880 PATENT Nthe performance of that contract, received under his

PATRON

In ecclesiastical law. He who has the right, title, power, or privilege of presenting to an ecclesiastical benefice. In Roman law. The former master of an emancipated slave. In French marine law.

PAY

To pay is to deliver to a creditor the value of a debt, either in money or in goods, for his acceptance, by which the debt Is discharged. Beals v. Home Ins.

PECULIUM

Lat. In Iloman law. Such private property as might be held by a slave, wife, or son who was under the pat Ha po- tcxtas, separate from the property of the father

PEEA

A peal, pile, or fort. Cowell.

PENDING

Begun, but not yet completed ; unsettled; undetermined ; in process of settlement or adjustment. Thus, an action or suit is said to be “pending” from its inception until the rendition of

PER

Lat. By. When a writ of entry is sued out against the alienee of the original intruder or disseisor, or against his heir to whom the land has descended, it is said

PER INFORTUNIUM

Lat. By misadventure. In- criminal law. homicide per in- fortunium is committed where a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of hurt, unfortunately kills another. 4 Bl. Comm. 182.

PER VERBA DE FUTURO

Lat By words of tlie future [tense.] A plirase applied to contracts of marriage. 1 Bl. Comm. 439; 2 Kent Comm. 87.

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