Category: P

Pledges to return the subject of distress, should the right be determined agaiust the party bringing the action of replevin. 3 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 422n.

Lat. In the civil law. Soldering. Dig. (J, 1, 23, 5.

The process of the law of Scotland which answers to the distress of the English law. Poinding is of three kinds: Ileal poinding or poinding of the ground. This is tlie action

The place where electors cast In their votes. Heads; individuals; persons singly considered. A challenge to the polls (in capita) is a challenge to the individual jurors composing the panel, or an

As used in law, this term denotes those who are so destitute of property or of the means of support, either from their own labor or the care of relatives, as to

The share falling to a child from a parent’s estate or the estate of any one bearing a similar relation. State v. Crossley, GO Ind. 209; Lewis’s Appeal, 108 Pa. 136; In

An uncertain thing which may happen. A contingent interest in real or personal estate. Kinzie v. Winston, 14 Fed. Cas. 651; Bodenhamer v. Welch. 89 N. C. 78; Needles v. Needles, 7

All the descendants of a person in a direct line to the remotest gen POSTHUMOUS CHILD 920 POTENTIAL eration. Breckinridge v. Denny, 8 Bush (Ky.) 027.

L. Lat To pay.

A county. Jacob.

A compilation of Roman law, consisting of selected passages from the writings of the most authoritative of the older jurists, methodically arranged, prepared by Tribonian with the assistance of sixteen associates, under

Fr. In French law. All the wife’s properly which is not subject to the riqime dotal is called by this name; and of these articles the wife has the entire administration; but

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,