Category: P

Lat. Masters. The chief clerks in chancery were formerly so called, because they had the direction of making out remedial writs. 2 Iteeve, Eng. Law, 251.

The mayor of a town.

In Spanish colonial law. An order emanating from the sov ereign, and differing from a ccdula only In form and in the mode of promulgation. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 93, note.

In English and American law. An order or direction, emanating from authority, to an officer or body of officers, commanding him or them to do some act within the scope of their

One who, by settlement upon the public land, or by cultivation of a portion of it, has obtained the right to purchase a portion of the land thus settled upon or cultivated,

In Spanish law. Pledge. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 7.

One placed in authority over others; a chief officer; a presiding or managing officer; a governor, ruler, or director. The chairman, moderator, or presiding officer of a legislative or deliberative body, appointed

Lat Price ; cost; value; the price of an article sold.

In mercantile law. A small allowance or compensation payable to the master and mariners of a ship or vessel; to the former for the use of his cables and ropes to discharge

way Co., So Mo. 5SS; Railroad Co. v. Bell, 112 Pa. 400, 4 Atl. 50; Lewis v. Seifert, 110 Pa. (‘.28, 11 Atl. 514, 2 Am. St. Rep. 031; Minneapolis v. Lund

As used in contradistinction to public law. the term means all that part of the law which is administered between citizen and citizeu, or which is concerned with the definition, regulation, and

For confessed; as confessed. A term applied to a bill in equity, and the decree founded upon it, where no answer is made to it by the defendant 1 Barb. Ch. Pr.

For that turn. 3 Wils. 233, arg.

For the whole; as one; jointly ; without division. Dig. 50, 17, 141, 1.

In old English law. Strictly, an accomplice in felony who to save himself confessed the fact, and charged or accused any other as principal or accessory, against whom he was bound to

one to a high office; as, such a prince was proclaimed emperor. In practice. The declaration made by the crier, by authority of the court, that something is about to be done.

In French law. An officer of the imperial court who either personally or by his deputy prosecutes every one who is accused of a crime according to the forms of French law.

A public declaration respecting something. Cod. 10, 41, 6. In ecclesiastical law. The act of entering into a religious order. See 17 Vin. Abr. 645. Also a calling, vocation, known employment ;

A declaration, verbal or written, made by one person to another for a good or valuable consideration in the nature of a covenant by which the promisor binds himself to do or

Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandfather’s brother. Inst 3, 6, 3; Bract, fol. 686.