Category: P

In international law. The right of pre-emption is the right of a nation to detain the merchandise of strangers passing through her territories or seas, in order to afford to her subjects

A principal minister of state; the prime minister.

Now existing; at hand; relating to the present time ; considered with reference to the present time.

In old English law. A payment or performance; the rendering of a service.

To hinder or preclude. To stop or intercept the approach, access, or performance of a thing. Webster; U. S. v. Souders, 27 Fed. Cas. 1,2(59; Green v. State, 109 Ga. 536, 35

The mother church. 1 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 118.

In English law. The younger sons and daughters of the sovereign, and other branches of the royal family who are not in the immediate line of succession. PRINCESS ROYAL. In English law.

One who is deprived of his liberty; one who is against his will kept in confinement or custody. A person restrained of his liberty upon any action, civil or criminal, or upon

belligerent, and claimed as enemy’s property, and therefore liable to appropriation and condemnation under the laws of war. See 1 C. Rob. Adm. 22S. Captured property regularly condemned by the sentence of

As a purchaser; by the title of a purchaser. A species of usucaption. Dig. 41, 4. See Id. 5, 3, 13, 1.

For the plaintiff.

Lat Proof; more particularly direct, as distinguished from Indirect or circumstantial evidence.

tion of proceedings against him and to compel his appearance, in either civil or criminal cases. See State v. Gnilbert. 50 Ohio St. 575, 47 N. E. 551, 3S L. R. A.

In ecclesiastical law. Certain sums of money which parish priests pay yearly to the bishops or archdeacons ratione visitationis. Dig. 3, 39, 25; Ayl. Par. 429.

The party calling a witness under the old system of the English ec- clesiastical courts.

In practice. The name of a writ issued by a superior court, directed to the judge and parties of a suit in an inferior court, commanding them to cease from the prosecution

Containing or consisting of a promise; in the nature of a promise; stipulating or engaging for a future act or course of conduct.

that they cannot be transferred from him. or i-case to be his, without liis own act or default. 2 1,1. Comm. 389. In the law of wills, a bequest or devise “to

Lat. In the civil and old English law. Property; that which is one’s own; ownership. Proprictas plena, full property, including not only the title, but the usufruct, or ex- clusive right to

In criminal law. A criminal action; a proceeding instituted and carried on by due course of law, before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining the guilt or innocence of a