Category: P

Lat. In the civil law. A pledge or pawn; a delivery of a thing to a creditor, as security for a debt. Also a thing delivered to a creditor as security for

See CHARITABLE USES.

In old English law. The public assemblies of all degrees of men where the sovereign presided, who usually consulted upon the great affairs of the kingdom. Also pleas, pleadings, or debates, and

is called the “use plaintiff.” PLAN. A map, chart, or design; being a delineation or projection on a plane surface of the ground lines of a house, farm, street, city, etc., reduced

In old records. A mother church.

One who has full power to do a thing; a person fully commis- sioned to act for another. A term applied In international law to ministers and envoys of the second rank

In the plural. 10 East, 158, arg.

The general principles by which a government is guided in its management of public affairs, or the legislature in its measures. This term, as applied to a law, ordinance, or rule of

In old pleading. An apple-tree ; an orchard

The vulgar; the multitude.

One who receives a portion; the allottee of a portion. One of two or more Incumbents of the same ecclesiastical benefice.

Relating to possession; founded on possession; contemplating or claiming possession.

A stamp or mark put on letters received at the post-office for trans- mission through the mails.

Lat. This term was used by the Romans to denote the descendants in a direct line beyond the sixth degree.

The name of a prison formerly existing in London. See COUNTEB.

In old English law. A toll for passage through another’s land. The same as “pedage.”

In Spanish law. Payment. Las Partldas, pt. 5, tit. 14, L 1. Payamcnto, sat- isfaction.

A small book, bound in paper covers, usually printed in the octavo form, aud stitched. See U. S. v. Chase, 135 U. S. 255, 10 Sup. Ct. 756, 34 L. Ed. 117.

In the civil law. Goods brought by wife to husband over and above her dowry.

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