Category: P

See FALSE PRETENSE.

Lat. At first sight; on the first appearance; on the face of it; so far as can be judged from the first disclosure ; presumably. A litigating party is said to have

In a general sense, a sovereign ; the ruler of a nation or state. More particularly, the son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as princes

The English statute 1 Edw. II. St. 2, (in Rev. St. 23 Edw. I.,) a still unrepealed statute, whereby it is felony for a felon to break prison, but misdemeanor only for

belligerent, and claimed as enemy’s property, and therefore liable to appropriation and condemnation under the laws of war. See 1 C. Rob. Adm. 22S. Captured property regularly condemned by the sentence of

For the fact; as a fact; considered or held as a fact.

For the affair immediately in hand; adapted to meet the particular occasion. Thus, a course of judicial action adopted under pressure of the exigencies of the affair in hand, rather than in

One who is upon trial. A convicted offender who is allowed to go at large, under suspension of sentence, during good behavior. Probationes debent esse evidentes, scil. pergpicuse et faciles intelligi. Co.

An error in chronology ; dating a thing before it happened.

A pimp; one that procures the seduction or prostitution of girls. They are punishable by statute in England and America.

Lat. In the civil law. That which descends to us from our as- cendants. Dig. 23, 3, 5.

In ecclesiastical law. The president or chairman of a convocation.

To utter formally, officially, and solemnly ; to declare aloud and in a formal manner. In this sense a court is said to “pronounce” judgment or a sentence. See Ex parte Crawford,

An executor or other person is said to propound a will or other testa- mentary paper when he takes proceedings for obtaining probate in solemn form. The term is also technically used,

To direct suspension ot proceedings of parliament; to terminate a session.

(1) The period during which Oliver Cromwell ruled in England. (2) Also the office of protector. (3) The relation of the English sovereign, till I he year 1804, to the Ionian Islands.

exchange to the drawee in order to meet the bill, or property remaining in the drawee’s hands or due from him to the drawer, and appropriated to that purpose. In ecclesiastical law.

Pertaining to a state, nation, or whole community; proceeding from, re- lating to, or affecting the whole body of people or an entire community. Open to all; notorious. Common to all or

Va. 375, 48 Am. Rep. 398; McMillan v. Harris, 110 Ga. 72, 35 S. E. 334, 48 L. R. A. 345, 78 Am. St. Rep. 93.

The word “purchase” is used in law in contradistinction to “descent,” and means any other mode of acquiring real property than by the common course of in- heritance. But it is also