Category: P

A defense which insists that the plaintiff never had the right to institute the suit, or that, if he had, the original rightis extinguished or determined.

One which was available to a party and of which he might have had the benefit if he had pleaded it in due season, but which cannot afterwards be heard as a

One paid on the preferred stock of a corporation; a dividend paid to one classof shareholders in priority to that paid to another. Chaffee v. Railroad Co., 55 Vt 129;Taft v. Railroad

A state paper, or other instrument of public importance or interest, issued or published by authority ofcongress or a state legislature. Also any document or record, evidencing or connectedwith the public business

This term embraces all lands, the title to which is in the United States, including as well land occupied forthe purposes of federal buildings, arsenals, dock-yards, etc., as land of an agriculturalor

An election by the voters of a ward, precinct, or other small district,belonging to a particular party, of representatives or delegates to a convention which is to meet and nominate the candidates

In real property law.A real covenant by the grantor of lands, for himself and his heirs, to warrant anddefend the title and possession of the estate granted, to the grantee and his

An instrument authorizing a person to act as the agent or attorney of the person granting it. See LETTER OF ATTORNEY

Lat In Roman law. A herald or crier.

the offense called “prcemunire” being the introduction of a foreign power into the king- dom, and creating imperium in impcrio, by paying that obedience to papal process which constitutionally belonged to the

Is a petition with which a bill in equity used to conclude, to the effect that a writ of subpoena might Issue against the defendant to compel him to answer upon oath

Another form of the name of the written instructions to the clerk of court; also spelled “praecipe,” (q. v.)

An assignment of property for the benefit of creditors, made by an insolvent debtor, in which it is directed that a preference (right to be paid first in full) shall be given

L. Fr. Near. Cy pros, so near; as near. See CY PKES.

See PEINE FORTE ET DURE.

In the civil law. Tbe right of a judge to take cognizance of an action over which he has concurrent juris- diction with another judge. In canon law. The right which a

A law French word, signifying first; primary.

The chief of a convent; next in dignity to an abbot.

Persons connected together, or having a mutual interest in the same action or thing, by some relation other thau that of actual contract between them; persons whose interest in an estate is

For the defendant. Commonly abbreviated “pro def.”