Category: P

A license to do a thing; an authority to do an act which, without such authority, would have been unlawful.

Lat. In the civil law. Character, in virtue of which certain rights belong to a man and certain duties are im- posed upon him. Thus one man may unite many characters, (persona;,)

In the English ecclesiastical courts, a “suit for perturbation of seat” is the technical name for an action growing out of a disturbance or infringement of one’s right to a pew or

A watch-tower, light-house, or sea-mark.

A structure extending from the solid land out Into the water of a river, lake, harbor, etc., to afford convenient passage for persons and property to and from vessels along the sides

In old English law. Butler ; the king’s butler, whose office it was to select out of the cargo of every vessel laden with wine, one cask at the prow and another

An edict; a declaration; a manifesto. Also an advertisement or public notification.

Lat. In the civil law. Man-stealing; kidnapping. The offense of enticing away and stealing men, children, and slaves. Calvin. The persuading a slave to escape from his master, or tlie concealing or

The pleadings are the formal allegations by the parties of their respective claims and defenses, for the Judgment of the court. Code Civ. Proc. Cal. 8 420. The individual allegations of the

In the civil law. A term used to signify full proof, (that is, proof by two witnesses,) in contradistinction to semi-plena probatio, which is only a pre- sumption. Cod. 4, 19, 5.

The most common meaning of the term “to plunder” is to take property from persons or places by open force, and this may be in course of a lawful war, or by

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.

A term sometimes used to denote a government of many or several; a government where the sovereignty is shared by several persons; a collegiate or divided executive.

The vulgar; the multitude.

One who receives a portion; the allottee of a portion. One of two or more Incumbents of the same ecclesiastical benefice.

An after-act; an act done afterwards.

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