Category: P

In old English law. Pound-breach; the offense of breaking a pound. The illegal taking of cattle out of a pound by any rneaus whatsoever. Cowell.

To steal; to commit larceny or theft. McCann v. U. S., 2 Wyo. 298.

In pleading. To confide to; to rely upon; to submit to. As in tbe phrase, “the said defendant puts himself upon the country;” that is, he trusts his case to the arbitrament

the latter’s estate entirely and without any subsequent right of redemption. See Capron v. Attleborough Bank, 11 Gray (Mass.) 403; Appeal of Clark, 70 Conn. 193, 39 Atl. 153.

In the civil law. Lands; estates ; tenements; properties. See PiwiDi- UM.

Lat. In the civil law. That mode of acquisition whereby one becomes proprietor of a thing on the ground that he has for a long time possessed it as his own; prescription.

A clause at the beginning of a constitution or statute explanatory of the reasons for its enactment and the objects sought to be accomplished. See Townsend v. State, 147 Ind. 024, 47

In English ecclesiastical law. A right of the crown to name to the first prebend that becomes vacant after the accession of the sovereign, in every church of the empire. This right

The act of an insolvent debtor who, in distributing his property or in assigning it for the benefit of his creditors, pays or secures to oue or more creditors the full amount

L. Fr. To take. The power or right of taking a thing without waiting for it to be offered. See A PKENDEB.

In criminal practice. The written notice taken by a grand jury of any offense, from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of

In French law. Loan. A contract by which one of the parties delivers an article to the other, to be used by the latter, on condition of his returning, after having used

The name given in England to the coast-guard, or armed police, forming a part of the customs service, and employed In the prevention and detection of smuggling. Previous intentions are judged by

To stand first or paramount to take precedence or priority of; to outrank ; as, in the sentence “taxes prime all other liens.”

Fundamental truths or doctrines of law; comprehensive rules or doctrines which furnish a basis or origin lor others; settled rules of action, procedure, or legal determination.

A vessel owned, equipped, and armed by one or more private individ uals, and duly commissioned by a belligerent power to go ou cruises and make war upon the enemy, usually by

For the public good; for the welfare of the whole.

For this turn; for this one particular occasion.

For a partner; the name of an action in behalf of a partner. A title of the civil law. Dig. 17. 2; Cod. 4, 37.

In the law of evidence. Having the effect of proof; tending to prove, or actually proving.