Category: P

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

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.

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

A practical construction of a couslitution or statute is one determined, not by judicial decision, but practice sanctioned by general consent. Farmers’ & Mechanics’ Bank v. Smith, 3 Serg. & it. tl’a.)

Such as arise merely and immediately from the ground ; as grain of all sorts, hops, hay, wood, fruit, herbs. 2 Bl. Comm. 23; 2 Steph. Comm. 722.

ly happens. Post v. Pearsall, 22 Wend. (N. Y.) 425, 475. Praesnmptio violenta plena probatio. Co. Litt 66. Strong presumption Is full proof. Praesnmptio violenta valet in lege. Strong presumption is of

Liable to be returned or rendered up at the mere demand or request of another; lience held or retained only ou sufferance or by permission; aud by au extension of meaning, doubtful,

In Scotch practice. To examine beforehand. Arkley, 232.

A forejudgment; bias; preconceived opinion. A leaning towards one side of a cause for some reason other than a conviction of its justice. Willis v. State, 12 Ga. 449; Hungerford v. Cushing,

In ecclesiastical law. A clerk who has been presented by his patron to a bishop in order to be instituted in a church.

In canon law. A fund or revenue appropri ated by the founder for the subsistence of a priest, without being erected into any title or benefice, chapel, prebend, or priory. It is

impartiality, as it is said, lets the point of it fall upon one of the three names nominated for each county, etc., and the person upon whose name it chances to fail

Lat. To the one first coming. An executor anciently paid debts as they were presented, whether the assets were sufficient to meet all debts or not. Stim. Law Gloss.

Fr. In French law. Prize; captured property. Ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit. 9. See Dole v. Insurance Co., 6 Allen (Mass.) 373.

The benefit of clergy, (q. v.) Privilegium est beneficium personale, et extinguitnr cum persona. 3 Bulst. 8. A privilege is a personal benefit, and dies with the person. Privileginm est quasi privata

As a dowry; bytitle of dowry. A species of usucaption.Dig. 41, 9. See Id. 5, 3, 13, 1.

As a possessor; by title of a possessor. Dig. 41, 5. See Id. 5, 3, 13. Pro possessore habetnr qui dolo in- juriave desiit possidere. He is esteemed a possessor whose possession