Category: P

The ownership of a thing is the right of one or more persons to possess and use it to the exclusion of others. In this Code, the thing of which there may

A small inclosure for deer or other animals.

A name given to the English statute 10 & 20 Vict. c. 1G, enabling a person accused of a crime committed out of the jurisdiction of the central criminal court, to be

Above; upwards. That which is superior; usually applied to the highest lord of the fee of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, as distinguished from the mesne (or intermediate) lord. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 135.

An act of grace, proceeding from tlie power intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a

A beadle; a summoner to the courts of civil law. Parium eadem est ratio, idem jns. Of things equal, the reason is the same, and the same is the law.

Lat. A part; a party to a deed, action, or legal proceeding.

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.

Lat. One who suffers or permits: one to whom an act is done; the passive party in a transaction.

Lat. In Roman law. A person who stood in the relation of protector to another who was called his “client.” One who advised his client in matters of law, aud advocated his

One who pays, or who is to make a payment; particularly the person who is to make payment of a bill or note. Correlative to “payee.”

In old English law. A toll or tax paid by travelers for the privilege of passiug, on foot or mounted, through a forest or other protected place. Spelman.

Issues arising from or out of a thing. Jacob.

A term used in criminal law, and denoting (in cases of alleged rape) the insertion of the male part into the female parts to however slight an extent; and by which insertion

Lat. By. When a writ of entry is sued out against the alienee of the original intruder or disseisor, or against his heir to whom the land has descended, it is said

Lat. By misadventure. In- criminal law. homicide per in- fortunium is committed where a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of hurt, unfortunately kills another. 4 Bl. Comm. 182.

Lat By words of tlie future [tense.] A plirase applied to contracts of marriage. 1 Bl. Comm. 439; 2 Kent Comm. 87.

In ecclesiastical procedure an appeal is said to be perempted when the appellant has by his own act waived or barred his right of appeal; as where he partially complies with or