Category: P

In ecclesiastical law. A parish or church in England which has jurisdiction of ecclesiastical matters within itself, and independent of the ordinary, and is subject only to the metropolitan.

Vassals or tenants of the same lord, who were obliged to serve and attend him in his courts, being equal in function. These were termed “peers of fees,” because holding fees of

In the civil law. The fruits of the earth not yet separated from the ground; the fruits hanging by the roots. Ersk. Inst. 2, 2, 4.

A state; as the people of the state of New York. A nation in its collective and political capacity. Nesbitt v. Lushington, 4 Term R. 783; U. S. v. Quincy, 0 Pet.

Lat. Through inadvertence. 35 Eng. Law & Eq. 302.

Lat In the civil law. By an aggregate or whole; as an entirety. The term described the acquisition of an entire estate by one act or fact, as distinguished from the acquisition

Lat In Roman law. The class of peregrini embraced at the same time both those who had no capacity in law, (capacity for rights or jural relations,) namely, the slaves, and the

Circumlocution ; use of many words to express the sense of one.

Purchase. Acquisition by one’s own act or agreement, and not by descent.

In Spanish law. The claim or right which one has to the property in anything; the territory which belongs to any one by way of jurisdiction or property; that which is accessory

Lat In Roman law. I request A common word by which a fldeicommis- sum, or trust, was created in a will. Inst 2, 24, 3.

In Scotch law. Petty theft; stealing of trifles, punishable arbitrarily. Bell.

The navigation of a vessel by a pilot; the duty of a pilot. The charge or compensation allowed for piloting a vessel.

In Scotch law. A privilege of inflicting capital punishment for theft, given by King Malcolm, by which a woman could be drowned In a pit, (fossa.) or a man hanged on a

A day past or lost to the defendant. 1 Hen. I. c. 59.

To make, deliver, or file any pleading; to conduct the pleadings in a cause. To interpose any pleading in a suit which contains allegations of fact; iu this sei’.se the word is

In old English law. That may be pledged; the subject of pledge or security. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 20,

The Monday after twelfth-day.

This word is used as au adjective iu several compound legal phrases, carrying a meaning suggestive of, or analogous to, its signification as a pouch, bag, or secret receptacle. For these phrases,

In Hindu law. The head of a village or district; also a military chieftain In the peninsula, answering to a hill zemindar in the northern drears. Wharton.