Category: P

In Spanish law. Commons: those who exercise any trade, or who cultivate the soil. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 5, c. 3.

One who has full power to do a thing; a person fully commis- sioned to act for another. A term applied In international law to ministers and envoys of the second rank

In the plural. 10 East, 158, arg.

A mercantile instrument in writing, by which one party, in consideration of a premium, engages to indemnify another against a contingent loss, by making him a payment in compensation, whenever the event

In old English law. Poundage;

Lat. In Roman law. A law enacted by the people; a law passed by an assembly of the Roman people, In the eoniitia centuriata, on the motion of a sena- tor; differing

In the civil law. Duties paid in ports on merchandise. Taxes levied in old times at city gates. Tolls for passing over bridges.

An after-act; an act done afterwards; a post-act.

Borough- English, (q. v.)

A horse load, which consists of seventeen stone and two pounds, or two huudred and forty pounds weight. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 12; Cowell.

Pr. The country; the neighborhood. A trial per pais signifies a trial by the country; that is, by jury. An assurance by matter in pais is an assurance transacted between two or

The act of impaneling a jury.

Lat. He is ready to verify. The Latin form for concluding a pleading with a verification, (q. v.)

Lat. Of the same matter; on the same subject; as, laws pari materia must be construed with reference to each other. Bac. Abr. “Statute,” I, 3.

In French law. 1. The magistrates who are charged with the conduct of proceedings in criminal cases and misdemeanors. 2. That part of the bourse which is reserved for stock-brokers.

The persons who take part in the performance of any act, or who are directly interested in any affair, contract, or conveyance, or who are actively concerned in the prosecution and defense

In old English law and practice. Easter. Do termino Pascha, of the term of Easter. Bract, fol. 240&.

In Spanish law. Feeding; pasture; a right of pasture. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit 1, c. 6,

The chief bishop over several countries or provinces, as an archbishop is of several dioceses. Godb. 20.

Lat. An uncle by the father’s side; a father’s brother.