Category: P

As a legacy; by the title of a legacy. A species of usucaption. Dig. 41, 8.

Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandmother. Inst. 3, 6, 3; Dig. 38, 10, 1, 5.

This word is commonly opposed to the sum of legal principles consti- tuting the substance of the law, and denotes the body of rules, whether of practice or ot pleading, whereby rights

The writing or instrument which authorizes a procurator to act Cowell; Termes de la Ley.

Treasonably. This is a technical word formerly used in indictments for treason, when they were written in Latin. Tomlins.

In practice. The name of a writ issued by a superior court, directed to the judge and parties of a suit in an inferior court, commanding them to cease from the prosecution

A plaintiff In a suit of duplex querela, (q. v.) 2 Prob. Div. 192.

PK0P:02 SO- BRINA. Lat. In the civil law. The son or daughter of a great-uncle or great-aunt, paternal or maternal. Inst. 3, 0, 3.

This term is almost synonymous with “owner,” (q. v.,) as in the phrase “riparian proprietor.” A person entitled to a trade-mark or a design under the acts for the registration or patenting

A document published by a company or corporation, or by persons acting as its agents or assignees, setting forth the nature and objects of an issue of shares, debentures, or other securities

As appears by the record. In the Latin phraseology of pleading, this was the proper for- mula for making reference to a record.

Immediate; nearest; next in order.

Lat. In the civil law. Public law; that law which regards the state of the commonwealth. Inst. 1, 1, 4.

In medical jurisprudence. A wound made by the insertion into the body of any instrument having a sharp point. The term is practically synonymous with “stab.”

party;” but it is now used in relation to any kind of partition proceedings. See Seiders v. Giles, 141 Pa. 93, 21 AU. 014.

To open. To put out lights; to open or cut windows. 11 East, 372. Putagium hsereditatem non adiniit. 1 Beeve, Eng. Law, c. 3, p. 117. Incontinence does not take away an

Every power of disposition is deemed absolute, by means of which the donee of such power is enabled in his life-time to dispose of the entire fee for his own benefit; and,

Things to be previously known iu order to the understanding of something which follows. Wharton.

Lat. Forename, or first name. The first of the three names by which the Romans were commonly distinguished. It marked the individual, and was commonly written with one letter; as “A.” for

A clause at the beginning of a constitution or statute explanatory of the reasons for its enactment and the objects sought to be accomplished. See Townsend v. State, 147 Ind. 024, 47