Category: P

See POSTLIMINIUM.

Lat Let him be freed or discharged. Paci sunt maxlme contraria vis et injuria. Co. Litt. 161. Violence and injury are the things chiefly hostile to peace.

The name given to acts of parliament to attaint particular persons of treason or felony, or to inflict pains and penalties beyond or contrary to the common law, to serve a spe-

in the parlance of the English bar societies, is an attendant or domestic who waits at table and gives bread, (pani*.) wine, and other necessary things to those who are dining. The

In the civil law. A conventicle, or unlawful meeting.

Lat. A person’s peers or equals; as the jury for the trial of causes, who were originally the vassals or tenants of the lord, being the equals or peers of the parties

Relating or belonging to a parish.

This term, as used In law, is almost always opposed to “general,” and means either individual, local, partial, special, or belonging to a single person, place, or thing.

See PETIT CAPE.

In the definition of manslaughter as homicide committed without premeditation but under the influence of sudden “passion,” this term means any intense and vehement emotional excitement of the kind prompting to violent

Lat. One who suffers or permits: one to whom an act is done; the passive party in a transaction.

Lat. In Roman law. A person who stood in the relation of protector to another who was called his “client.” One who advised his client in matters of law, aud advocated his

One who pays, or who is to make a payment; particularly the person who is to make payment of a bill or note. Correlative to “payee.”

Lat. In Roman law. At the foot; in a lower position; on the ground. See JUDEX PEDANEUS.

The custom or duty paid for skins of leather.

A standard, banner, or ensign carried in war.

Lat. In old English law. By ring and staff, or crozier. The symbolical mode of conferring an ecclesiastical investure. 1 Bl. Comm. 3 78, 370.

L. Fr. By the half and by the whole. A phrase descriptive of the mode in which joint tenants hold the joint estate, the effect of which, technically considered, is that for

in a contract, is equivalent to the word “annually.” Curtiss v. Howell, 39 N. Y. 211.

Certain qualifications of a property character being required of persons who tender themselves as bail, when such persons have justified, i. c., es- tablished their sufficiency by satisfying the court that they