Category: P

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.

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

A peal, pile, or fort. Cowell.

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

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

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.

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

A nonsuit; also a quashing or killing.

In criminal law. The willful assertion as to a matter of fact, opinion, belief, or knowledge, made by a witness in a judicial proceeding as part of his evidence, either upon oath

Lat. In the civil law. A following after ; a pursuing at law; a suit or prosecution. Properly that kind of judicial proceeding before the prretor which was called “extraordinary.” In a

A pittance; a small portion of alms or victuals. Also certain poor scholars of the Isle of Man. Cowell.

A lawyer who is em- ployed in a small or mean business, or who carries on a disreputable business by unprincipled or dishonorable means. “We think that the term ‘pettifogging shyster” needed

A small parcel of land inclosed with a hedge, which, in some countries, is called a “pingle.” Enc. Lond.

A very singular and odious kind of tenure mentioned by the old writers, “Wilhelmus Hoppeshort tenet di- midiam virgatam terrce per servitium cus- todiendi sex damisellas, sett, meretrices ad usum domini regis.”

In medical Jurisprudence. A term of recent introduction to medical science, signifying curability by means of persuasion, and used as synonymous with “hysteria,” in effect limiting the scope of the latter term

The act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of

A person whose business it is to draw pleadings. Formerly, when pleading at common law was a highly technical and difficult art, there was a class of men known as “special pleaders

Pledges to return the subject of distress, should the right be determined agaiust the party bringing the action of replevin. 3 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 422n.

Lat. In the civil law. Soldering. Dig. (J, 1, 23, 5.

The process of the law of Scotland which answers to the distress of the English law. Poinding is of three kinds: Ileal poinding or poinding of the ground. This is tlie action