Category: P

One who murders

A hill where courts were anciently held. Cowell.

Lat. In Roman law. A legatee who was entitled, by the directions of the will, to receive a share or portion of the inheritance left to the heir. PARTICEPS. Lat. A participant;

Petty serjeanty, (

In English law. A kind of permit, being a note or check which the toll-clerks on some canals give to the boatmen, specifying the lading for which they have paid toll. Wharton.

Hanged on a gibbet.

In English ecclesiastical law. The right of presentation to a church or ecclesiastical benefice; the same with advowson, (q. v.) 2 Bl. Comm. 21. The right of appointing to office, considered as

A sum of money is said to be payable when a person is under an obliga- tion to pay it. “Payable” may therefore signify an obligation to pay at a future time,

Lat. In Roman law. Cattle; a beast. Under a bequest of pccudes were in- cluded oxen and other beasts of burdeu. Dig. 32, 81, 2.

Issues arising from or out of a thing. Jacob.

A term used in criminal law, and denoting (in cases of alleged rape) the insertion of the male part into the female parts to however slight an extent; and by which insertion

When a writ of entry is brought against a second alienee or de PER AND POST 889 PER MISADVENTURE scendant from the disseisor, It is said to be in. the per and

Lat. By the law of England; by the curtesy. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 54,

Lat By words of the present [.tense.] A phrase applied to contracts of marriage. 1 BL Comm. 439.

Lat In the civil law. That which takes away or destroys forever; hence, exceptio pcremptoria, a plea which is a perpetual bar. Calvin.

Fixed, enduring, abiding, not subject to change. Generally opposed in law to “temporary.”

A man considered according to the rank he holds in society, with all the rights to which the place he holds entitles him, and the duties which it imposes. 1 Bouv. Inst.

Applicable; relevant Evidence is called “pertinent” when it is directed to the issue or matters in dispute, aud legitimately tends to prove the allegations of the party offering it; otherwise it is

Small, minor, of less or inconsiderable importance. The English form of “petit,” and sometimes used instead of that word in such compounds as “petty jury,” “petty larceny,” and “petty treason.” See PETIT.

A thief who secretly steals money or other property from the person of another.