Category: P

In medical jurisprudence. A substance having an inherent deleterious property which renders it, when taken into the system, capable of destroying life. 2 Whart. & S. Med. Jur.

In criminal law. The offense of having several wives or husbands at the same time, or more than one wife or husband at the same time. 3 Inst. 88. And see Reynolds

The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending doctrines aud practices.

In old English law. A minister who serves a benefice, together with others; so called because lie has only a portion of the tithes or profits of the living; also an allowance

Lat. After; occurring in a report or a text-book, is used to send the reader to a subsequent part of the book.

Lat. In the civil- law. A doctrine or fiction of the law by which the restoration of a person to auy status or right formerly possessed by him was considered as relating

A measure of length containing two feet and a half, being the ordinary length of a step.

See PEINB FORTE ET DURE.

The roll or slip of parchment returned by the sheriff in obedience to a venire facias, containing the names of the persons whom he has summoned to attend the court as jurymen.

The sixth day of the last week in Lent, particularly called “Good Friday.” In English law, it is a dies non juridicus.

One work executed In the intervals of another; a subordinate task. Particularly, the name of a work on the Canons, in great repute, by Ayliffe.

The supreme legislative assembly of Great Britain and Ireland, consisting of the king or queen and the three estates of the realm, viz., the lords spiritual, the lords temporal, and the commons.

A small piece of land.

An afternoon’s exercise or moot for the instruction of young students, bearing the same name originally with the Parvisice (little-go) of Oxford. Wharton. PARVUM CAPE 879 PASSENGER

Pannage; a liberty for hogs to run in forests or woods to feed upon mast Mon. Angl. 1, 682.

In old English law. A gallows or gibbet. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 3,

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.