Category: P

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.

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

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.”