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

Lat Proof; more particularly direct, as distinguished from Indirect or circumstantial evidence.

A proceeding to determine boundaries, in use in some of tbe United States, similar in all respects to the English perambulation, (q. v.)

The old name for church-wardens. Paroch. Antiq. 562.

In a profane manner. A technical word in indictments for the statutory offense of profanity. See Updegraph v. Com., 11 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 394.

Iu medical jurisprudence. A word used to designate the destruction of the human offspring. Jurists divide the subject into foeticide, or tlie destruction of the foetus in utcro, and infanticide, or the

Lat. In the civil law. A great-granddaughter. Inst 3, 6, 1; Bract, fol. 67. PRONOTARY 955 PROPERTY

A single logical sentence; also an offer to do a thing. See Perry v. Dwelling House Ins. Co., 07 N. II. 291, 33 Atl. 731. OS Am. St. Rep. OGS; Hubbard v.

In Scotch law. A power conferred by consent of the parties upon a judge who would not otherwise be competent.

In English law. By the statute 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 74,

In English law. The several archi-episcopal courts in the two ecclesiastical provinces of England.

A method or system of alleviating or curing certain forms of disease, particularly diseases of the nervous system or such as are traceable to nervous disorders, by suggestion, persuasion, encouragement, the inspiration

In the civil law. A condition intermediate between infancy and puberty, continuing in boys from the seventh to the fourteenth year of their age, and In girls from seven to twelve.

Lat. In the civil law. A ward or infant under the age of puberty; a person under the authority of a tutor, (q. v.) Pnpillus pati posse non intelligitur. A pupil or

The person appointed by the master of a ship or vessel, whose duty It is to take care of the ship’s books, in which every thing on board is inserted, as well