Category: P

The ownership of a thing is the right of one or more persons to possess and use it to the exclusion of others. In this Code, the thing of which there may

A small inclosure for deer or other animals.

A small book, bound in paper covers, usually printed in the octavo form, aud stitched. See U. S. v. Chase, 135 U. S. 255, 10 Sup. Ct. 756, 34 L. Ed. 117.

See PARAPHERNALIA.

The lawful father or the mother of a person. Appeal of Gibson, 154 Mass. 378, 28 N. E. 290. This word is dis- tinguished from “ancestors” in including only the immediate progenitors

A park-keeper.

In old pleading. The parties to the fine had nothing; that is, had no estate which could be conveyed by It. A plea to a fine which had been levied by a

Lat Little; but little. Parum cavet natura. Nature takes little heed. Vandenlieuvel v. United Ins. Co., 2 Johns. Cas. (N. Y.) 127, 166.

He who has the interest or command of the passage of a river; or a lord to whom a duty Is paid for passage. Wharton.

In medical jurisprudence. The science or doctrine of diseases. That part of medicine which explains the nature of diseases, their causes, and their symptoms. See Bacon v. U. S. Mut. Acc. Ass’n,

A policeman assigned to duty in patrolling a certain beat or district; also the designation of a grade or rank in the organized police force of large cities, a patrolman being generally

Lat. The peace of the king; that is, the peace, good order, and security for life and property which it is one of the objects of government to maintain, and which the

In English law. A branch of and annexed to the court of arches. It has a jurisdiction over all those PECULIUM 885 PEDIS POSSESSIO parishes dispersed through the province of Canterbury, in

L. Fr. In old English law. A special form of punishment for those who, being arraigned for felony, obstinately “stood mute;” that is, refused to plead or to put themselves upon trial.

In Scotch law. A piece or parcel of ground.

A dried berry of the black pepper. In English law, the reservation of a merely nominal rent, on a lease, is sometimes expressed by a stipulation for the payment of a peppercorn.

Lat. In old English law. By human industry. A term applied to the reclaiming or taming of wild animals by art, industry, and education. 2 Bl. Comm. 391.

L. Lat. In old practice., By gage. Words in the old writs of attachment or pone, 3 Bl. Comm. 280. Per varios actus legem experlentla facit. By various acts experience frames the

In ecclesiastical procedure an appeal is said to be perempted when the appellant has by his own act waived or barred his right of appeal; as where he partially complies with or

To come to an eud; to cease to be; to die. PERISHA3LE ordinarily means subject to speedy and natural decay. But. where the time contemplated is necessarily long, the terra may embrace