Category: P

In law French. Afterwards; since.

One who acquires real property in any other mode than by descent. One who acquires either real or personal property by buying it for a price in money; a buyer; vendee. In

As used in constitutional law, this right includes personal freedom, freedom of contract, exemption from oppression or invidious discrimination, the right to follow one’s individual preference in the choice of an occupation

He who is engaged in the exercise or employment of any art or profession.

Lat. In Roman law. The chief officer of the night watch. His jurisdiction extended to certain offenses affecting the public peace, and even to larcenies; but be could inflict only slight punishments.

In French law. An expression used to designate those ordinances which concern the most important objects of the civil or ecclesiastical ad- ministration. Merl. Repert In the civil law. The answer given

The continuance of a suit by consent of both parties. Cowell.

In international law. The right of pre-emption is the right of a nation to detain the merchandise of strangers passing through her territories or seas, in order to afford to her subjects

baeher’s Estate. 168 Pa. 158, 32 Atl. 30; Cum- rnings v. Dearborn, 56 Vt. 441; State v. French, 120 ind. 220, 22 N. E. 108. The word is also used to denote

To preside over a court is to “hold” it,

In the civil law. The omission by a testator of some one of bis heirs who is legally entitled to a portion of the inheritance.

Lat. In the civil law. An imperial prerogative by which the emperor exercised the right of naming to the first prebend that became vacant after his accession, in every church of the

In English law. The younger sons and daughters of the sovereign, and other branches of the royal family who are not in the immediate line of succession. PRINCESS ROYAL. In English law.

L. Fr. Ready. In the old forms of oral pleading, this term expressed a tender or joinder of issue. Prins vitiis laboravimus, nunc legibus. 4 Inst. 70. We labored first with vices,

For and against. A phrase descriptive of the presentation of arguments or evidence on both sides of a disputed question.

For this turn; for this one particular occasion.

For a partner; the name of an action in behalf of a partner. A title of the civil law. Dig. 17. 2; Cod. 4, 37.

In the law of evidence. Having the effect of proof; tending to prove, or actually proving.

To promulgate; to announce: to publish, by governmental authority, intelligence of public acts or transactions or other matters important to be known by tbe people.

in French law, is a public prosecutor, with whom rests the initiation of all criminal proceedings. In the exercise of his office (which appears to include the apprehension of offenders) he Is