Category: P

impartiality, as it is said, lets the point of it fall upon one of the three names nominated for each county, etc., and the person upon whose name it chances to fail

Lat. A writ directing a grant of the first benefice in the sovereign’s gift. Cowell. Primo excutienda est verb! vis, ne sermonis vitio obstrnatnr oratio, sive lex sine argument!*. Co. Litt 68.

To the person first applying. In probate practice, where there are several persons equally entitled to a grant of administration, (e. y., next of kin of the same degree,) the rule of

A particular and peculiar benefit or advantage enjoyed by a person, company, or class, beyond the common advantages of other citizens. An exceptional or extraordinary power or exemption. A right, power, franchise,

For, or In case of, default of issue. 2 Salk. 020.

For breach or faith. 3 Bl. Comm. 52.

Lat. In the civil law. A great-great-aunt.

In practice. A writ by which a cause which has been removed from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari or otherwise is sent down again to the same court, to

The generation of children. One of the principal ends of marriage is the procreation of children. lust. tit. 2, in pr.

A term said by Tomlins to be frequently applied in the ancient books to the barons of the realm, particularly as constituting a council or administration or government. It is probably a

Lat. He produces in court. In old practice, these words were inserted in a declaration, as an allegation that the plaintiff was ready to produce, or did actually produce, in court, the

In ecclesiastical law. The president or chairman of a convocation.

First notary. See PBO- THONOTARY.

A single logical sentence; also an offer to do a thing. See Perry v. Dwelling House Ins. Co., 07 N. II. 291, 33 Atl. 731. OS Am. St. Rep. OGS; Hubbard v.

In Scotch law. A power conferred by consent of the parties upon a judge who would not otherwise be competent.

A woman who indiscriminately consorts with men for hire. Carpenter v. People, 8 Barb. (N. Y.) 611; State v. Stoyell, 54 Me. 24, 89 Am. Dec. 716.

Lat. In the civil law. He who, not being the tutor of a minor, has administered his property or affairs as if he had been, whether he thought himself legally invested with

A condition or provision which is inserted in a deed, lease, mortgage, or contract, and on the performance or nonperformance of which the validity of the deed, etc., frequently depends; it usually

curring in putrefying fish and the tyrotoxi- cons of decomposing milk and milk products.

Lat. In the civil law. Childhood; the age from seven to fourteen. 4 Bl. Comm. 22.