Category: P

Precipitins are formations in the blood of an animal induced by repeated injections into its veins of the blood-serum of an animal of another species; and their importance in diagnosis lies in

Possessing or accorded a priority, advantage, or privilege. Generally denoting a prior or superior claim or right of payment as against another thing of PREFERRED 931

Lat. In civil and ecclesiastical law. An elder ; a presbyter ; a priest. Cod. 1, 3, 6, 20; Nov. 6.

In old English law. A duty In money to be paid by the sheriff upon his ac- count in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands. Cowell.

The statute 34 & 35 Vict. c. 112. passed for the purpose of securing a better supervision over habitual criminals. This act provides that a person who is for a second time

In old English law. The first of any degree of men. 1 Mon. Angl. 838.

Earlier; elder; preceding; superior in rank, right, or time; as, a prior lien, mortgage, or judgment. See Fidelity, etc., Safe Deposit Co. v. Roanoke Iron Co. (C. C.) 81 Fed. 447. Prior

A particular and peculiar benefit or advantage enjoyed by a person, company, or class, beyond the common advantages of other citizens. An exceptional or extraordinary power or exemption. A right, power, franchise,

As derelict or abandoned. A species of usucaption in the civil law. Dig. 41, 7.

For greater caution; by way of additional security. Usually applied to some act done, or some clause inserted in an instrument, which may not be really necessary, but which will serve to

Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandfather. Inst. 3, 6, 1; Bract fols. 67, 68.

alone would have been applicable, either in the same or analogous cases, if summary proceedings had not been available. Sweet. Aod see Phillips v. Phillips. 8 N. J. Law, 122; Govan v.

Sp. In Spanish law, an officer appointed to make inquiry, put a petitioner in possession of land prayed for, and execute the orders of the executive in that behalf. See Lecompte v.

To bring forward; to show or exhibit; to bring into view or notice; as, to produce books or writings at a trial In obedience to a subpccna duces tecum.

Lat. In old English law. A throwing up of earth by the sea.

Lat. In Roman law. To make public; to make publicly known; to promulgate. To publish or make known a law, after its enactment.

In Spanish law. Certain portions of ground laid off and reserved when a town was founded in Spanish America as the unalienable property of the town, for the purpose of erecting public

In Massachusetts colonial ordinance of 1741 is nearly, if not precisely, equivalent to property. Com. v. Alger, 7 Cush. (Mass.) 53, 70. In old English law. Property. “Propriety in action; propriety in

A woman who indiscriminately consorts with men for hire. Carpenter v. People, 8 Barb. (N. Y.) 611; State v. Stoyell, 54 Me. 24, 89 Am. Dec. 716.

L. Fr. Provable; justifiable; manifest. Kelham.