Category: P

Lat. In the civil law. Character, in virtue of which certain rights belong to a man and certain duties are im- posed upon him. Thus one man may unite many characters, (persona;,)

In Scotch law. Appurtenances. “Parts and pertinents” are formal words in old deeds and charters. 1 Forb. Inst pt. 2, pp. 112, 118.

A stone weight. Cowell.

by members of a trade union on strike, consists in posting members PICKLE 899 PIN-MONEY at all the approaches to the works struck against, for the purpose of observing and re- porting

In English law. Boards of commissioners appointed and authorized for the regulation and appointment of pilots, each board having jurisdiction within a prescribed district.

In old English law. Money, commonly a penny, paid for pitching or setting down every bag of corn or pack of goods in a fair or market. Cowel

The day appointed for a criminal to appear and plead and make his defense. Cowell.

Alleged or averred, in form, iu a judicial proceeding. It more often refers to matter of defense, but not invariably. To say that matter in a declaration or replication is not well

In old English law. That may be pledged; the subject of pledge or security. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 20,

The Monday after twelfth-day.

This word is used as au adjective iu several compound legal phrases, carrying a meaning suggestive of, or analogous to, its signification as a pouch, bag, or secret receptacle. For these phrases,

Trees which have been lopped; distinguished from timber-trees. Plowd. 049.

Lat. He puts himself upon the country. The defendant’s plea of uot guilty in a criminal action is recorded, in English practice, in these words, or in the abbreviated form “po. Sc

In English law. The generic name for port duties charged to ships. Harg. Law Tract, 64.

Lat. Of positive law. “That was a rule positivi juris; I do not mean to say an unjust one.” Lord Elleu- borough, 12 East. G39. Posito nno oppositorum, negatur alteram. One of

To date an instrument as of a time later than that at which it is really made.

The roads or highways, by land or sea, designated by law as the ave- nues over which the mails shall be transported. Railway Mail Service Cases, 13 Ct. CI. 204. A “post

To put off; defer; delay; continue; adjourn; as when a hearing is postponed. Also to place after; to set below something else; as when an earlier lien is for some reason postponed

The name for a consignment of goods, consisting of one large parcel made up of several small ones, (each bearing a different address,) collected from different persons by the immediate consignor, (a

A duty to lords of manors for exporting and importing vessels of wiue at any of their ports. Jacob.