Category: P

The name of a prison formerly existing in London. See COUNTEB.

A robber; a foot highwayman ; a foot-pad.

A name given to the English statute 10 & 20 Vict. c. 1G, enabling a person accused of a crime committed out of the jurisdiction of the central criminal court, to be

In the civil law. Goods brought by wife to husband over and above her dowry.

An act of grace, proceeding from tlie power intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a

In English law. A tract of inclosed ground privileged for keeping wild beasts of the chase, particularly deer; an inclosed chase extending only over a man’s own grounds. 2 Bl. Comm. 38.

Lat The party not having appeared. The condition of a cause called “default” Parte qnacnmqne integrante sul;lata, tollitur totum. An integral part being taken away, the whole is taken away. 8 Coke,

adj. Relating or belonging to, or composed of, two or more parts or portions, or two or more persons or classes of persons.

The fare of a passenger by sea ; money paid for the transpor- tation of persons in a ship or vessel; as distinguished from “freight” or “freight-money,” which is paid for the

The fact of being a father; the relationship of a father. The Latin “paternitas” is used in the canon law to denote a kind of spiritual relation- ship contracted by baptism. Heinecc.

In Roman law. Patronage; protection; defense. The business or duty of a patron or advocate.

Lat. In old English law. The peace of the church. A particular privilege attached to a church; sanctuary, (q. v.) Crabb, Eng. Law, 41; Cowell.

In ecclesiastical law. A parish or church in England which has jurisdiction of ecclesiastical matters within itself, and independent of the ordinary, and is subject only to the metropolitan.

Vassals or tenants of the same lord, who were obliged to serve and attend him in his courts, being equal in function. These were termed “peers of fees,” because holding fees of

In the civil law. The fruits of the earth not yet separated from the ground; the fruits hanging by the roots. Ersk. Inst. 2, 2, 4.

A state; as the people of the state of New York. A nation in its collective and political capacity. Nesbitt v. Lushington, 4 Term R. 783; U. S. v. Quincy, 0 Pet.

Lat. Through inadvertence. 35 Eng. Law & Eq. 302.

Lat In the civil law. By an aggregate or whole; as an entirety. The term described the acquisition of an entire estate by one act or fact, as distinguished from the acquisition

Lat In Roman law. The class of peregrini embraced at the same time both those who had no capacity in law, (capacity for rights or jural relations,) namely, the slaves, and the

Circumlocution ; use of many words to express the sense of one.