Category: P

In English practice. An original writ formerly used for the purpose of remov- ing suits from the court-baron or county court Into the superior courts of common law. It was also the

Lat. In Roman law. The people; the whole body of Roman citizens, including as well the patricians as the plebeians.

In old English law. An auction; a public sale of goods to the highest bidder; also a sale of fish as soon as it is brought into the haven. Cowell.

A species of bank-notes payable at a distant period, and not on de- mand. They are a species of obligation resorted to by banks when the exchanges of the country, and especially

n French law. A sum of money frequently paid, at the moment of* euteriug iuto a contract, beyond the price agreed upou. It differs from air Ita, iu this: that it is

A package means a bundle put up for transportation or commercial handling; a thing in form to become, as such, au article of merchandise or delivery from hand to hand. A parcel

Ordinary conveyances between two or more persons in tlie country; i. e., upon the land to be transferred.

A written or printed document or instrument. A document filed or introduced in evidence in a suit at law, as, In the phrase “papers in the case” and in “papers on appeal.”

Inferior; subordinate. Tenant paravail signified the lowest tenant of land, being the tenant of a mesne lord. He was so called because he was supposed to make “avail” or profit of the

Lat. By an equal progress ; equably; ratably; without preference. Coote, Mortg. 56.

The crime of killing one’s father; also a person guilty of killing his father.

Lat. In the civil law. Partition; division. This word did not always signify dimidium, a dividing into halves. Dig. 50, 16, 164, 1.

A particular meadow or pasture land set apart to feed cattle.

Lat. A shepherd. Applied to a minister of the Christian religion, who has charge of a congregation, Iieuce called his “flock.” See First Presbyterian Church v. Myers, 5 Okl. 809, 50 Pac.

One who has killed his father. As to the punishment of that offense by the Roman law, see Sandars’ Just Inst. (5th Ed.) 496.

A person so poor that he must be supported at public expense; also a suitor who, on account of poverty, is allowed to sue or defend without being chargeable with costs. In

Fr. Country. Trial per pays, trial by jury, (the country.) See PAIS.

Lineage ; line of ancestors from which a person descends; genealogy. An account or register of a line of ancestors. Family relationship. Swink v. French, 11 Lea (Tenn.) 80, 47 Am. Bep.

An officer in the English exchequer, who entered every seller’s bill on the parchment rolls, the roll of receipts, and the roll of disbursements.

Lat. In the civil law. A payment, properly, for the use of a thing. A rent; a payment for the use and occupation of another’s house.