Category: P

In medical jurisprudence. Progressive general paralysis, involving or leading to the form of insanity known as “dementia paralytica.” Popularly, but not very correctly, called “softening of the brain.” See INSANITY.

In military law. A promise given by a prisoner of war, when he has leave to depart from custody, that he will return at the time appointed, unless discharged. Webster. An engagement

The details of a claim, or the separate items of an account. When these are stated in an orderly form, for the information of a defendant, the statement is called a “bill

In French. Precedence; right of going foremost

As used in law, this term means inactive; permissive; consisting in endurance or submission, rather than action; and iu some connections it carries the implication of being subjected to a burden or

Lat. The country, neighborhood, or vicinage; the men of the neighborhood ; a jury of the vicinage. Synonymous, in this sense, with “pais.” Patria laboribns et expensis non debet fatigari. A jury

The proprietors of certain manors created in New York in colonial times were so called.

An officer of the army or navy whose duty is to keep the pay-accounts and pay the wages of the officers and men. Any official charged with the disbursement of public money.

Itinerant traders; persons who sell small wares, which they carry with them in traveling about from place to place. In re Wilson. 19 D. C. 341, 12 L. It. A. t’,24 ;

A pilch or surplice. Spelman.

An English coin, being the twelfth part of a shilling. It was also used in America during the colonial period.

Lat. By the year. A phrase still in common use. Ramsdell v. llulett. 50 Kan. 440, 31 Pac. 1002; State v. McFotridge. 04 Wis. 130, 24 N. W. 140; Ilaney v. Caldwell,

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

llowed; allowable; that which may be done.

the nature or partaking of the qualities of human beings, or of movable property. As to personal “Action,” “Assets,” “Chattels,” “Contract,” “Covenant,” “Credit,” “De- mand,” “Disability,” “Franchise,” “Injury,” “Judgment,” “Knowledge,” “Law,” “Liability.”

A verdict whereby the jury refuse to follow the direction of the judge on a point of law.

Any person who makes for sale photographs, ambrotypes, daguerrotypes, or pictures, by the action of light. Act Cong. July 13, 1866,

Lat. In the civil law. An action of pledge, or founded on a pledge, which was either directa, for the debtor, after payment of the debt, or con- traria, for the creditor.