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

the latter’s estate entirely and without any subsequent right of redemption. See Capron v. Attleborough Bank, 11 Gray (Mass.) 403; Appeal of Clark, 70 Conn. 193, 39 Atl. 153.

In the civil law. Lands; estates ; tenements; properties. See PiwiDi- UM.

Lat. In the civil law. That mode of acquisition whereby one becomes proprietor of a thing on the ground that he has for a long time possessed it as his own; prescription.

The kind and degree of evidence prescribed in advance (as. by statute) as requisite for the proof of certain facts or the establishment of certain instruments. It is opposed to casual evidence,

In French law. A portion of an estate or inheritance which falls to one of the co-heirs over and above his equal share with the rest, and which is to be taken

the same kind or class. See State v. Cheraw & G. R. Co., 16 S. C. 528.

That part of the church where divine offices are performed; formerly applied to tile choir or chancel, because it was the place appropriated to the bishop, priest, and other clergy, while the

A payment which binds those who receive It to be ready at all times appointed, being meant especially of soldiers. Cowell.

In the procedure of parliamentary bodies, moving the “previous question” is a method of avoiding a direct vote on the main subject of discus- sion. It is described in May, Pari. Prac.

In English law. First fruits; the first year’s whole profits of a spiritual preferment. 1 Bl. Comm. 284.

To the person first applying. In probate practice, where there are several persons equally entitled to a grant of administration, (e. y., next of kin of the same degree,) the rule of

Possessing or enjoying a privilege; exempt from burdens; entitled to priority or precedence.

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As not written; as though it had not been written; as never written. Ambl. 139.