Category: P

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

A nation at war with the United States; alsoevery citizen or subject of such nation. Not including robbers, thieves, privatedepredators, or riotous mobs. State v. Moore, 74 Mo. 417. 41 Am. Rep.

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.

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

Lat. Masters. The chief clerks in chancery were formerly so called, because they had the direction of making out remedial writs. 2 Iteeve, Eng. Law, 251.

The mayor of a town.

In Spanish colonial law. An order emanating from the sov ereign, and differing from a ccdula only In form and in the mode of promulgation. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 93, note.

In English and American law. An order or direction, emanating from authority, to an officer or body of officers, commanding him or them to do some act within the scope of their

One who, by settlement upon the public land, or by cultivation of a portion of it, has obtained the right to purchase a portion of the land thus settled upon or cultivated,

In Spanish law. Pledge. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 7.

One placed in authority over others; a chief officer; a presiding or managing officer; a governor, ruler, or director. The chairman, moderator, or presiding officer of a legislative or deliberative body, appointed

Lat Price ; cost; value; the price of an article sold.

In mercantile law. A small allowance or compensation payable to the master and mariners of a ship or vessel; to the former for the use of his cables and ropes to discharge

way Co., So Mo. 5SS; Railroad Co. v. Bell, 112 Pa. 400, 4 Atl. 50; Lewis v. Seifert, 110 Pa. (‘.28, 11 Atl. 514, 2 Am. St. Rep. 031; Minneapolis v. Lund

As used in contradistinction to public law. the term means all that part of the law which is administered between citizen and citizeu, or which is concerned with the definition, regulation, and

For confessed; as confessed. A term applied to a bill in equity, and the decree founded upon it, where no answer is made to it by the defendant 1 Barb. Ch. Pr.

For that turn. 3 Wils. 233, arg.

For the whole; as one; jointly ; without division. Dig. 50, 17, 141, 1.