Category: P

A Troy weight, equal to twenty-four grains, or one-twentieth part of an ounce.

Lat. By the year. A phrase still in common use. Ramsdell v. llulett. 50 Kan. 440, 31 Pac. 1002; State v. McFotridge. 04 Wis. 130, 24 N. W. 140; Ilaney v. Caldwell,

L. Fr. By the half and by the whole. A phrase descriptive of the mode in which joint tenants hold the joint estate, the effect of which, technically considered, is that for

in a contract, is equivalent to the word “annually.” Curtiss v. Howell, 39 N. Y. 211.

Complete; finished; executed ; enforceable.

A license to do a thing; an authority to do an act which, without such authority, would have been unlawful.

In old English law. A purchaser; one who first acquired an estate to his family; one who acquired an estate by sale, by gift, or by any other method, except only that

The fourth part of an acre. Cowell.

The creditor at whose instance an adjudication of bankruptcy is made against a bankrupt.

A narrow slip of land running into a corner.

Plunder; the forcible taking of private property by an invading or con- quering army from the enemy’s subjects. American Ins. Co. v. Bryan, 26 Wend. (N. Y.) 573, 37 Am. Dec. 278.

The right or privilege of fishing. Thus, common of piscary is the right of fishing in waters belonging to another person.

Belating to pleas or pleading.

A Spanish word, meaning a public square in a city or town. Sachs Y. Towanda, 79 111. App. 441

The party to whom goods are pledged, or delivered in pledge. Story, Bailm.

A term used in appraising land values and particularly in eminent do- main proceedings, to designate the additional value given to city lots by the fact that they are contiguous, which enables

To steal game on a mau’s laud.

v. In practice. To single out, one by one, of a number of persons. To examine each juror separately, after a verdict has been given, as to his concurrence in the ver-

An old writ directing a sheriff to impanel a jury for an assize or real action.

In Spanish law. A part or portion; a lot or parcel; an allotment of PORRECTING 914 PORTMOTE land. See Downing v. Diaz, 80 Tex. 436, 16 S. W. 40.