Category: P

labor, capital, and the materials and motive forces afforded by nature. Of these, labor and the raw material of the globe are primary and indispensable. Natural motive powers may be called in

The class of prolc- tarii; the lowest stratum of the people of a country, consisting mainly of the waste of other classes, or of those fractions of the population who, by their

Lat. In the civil law. A quasi contract, by which he who receives a certain sum of money, or a certain quantity of fungible things, which have been paid to him through

In old records. Purport ; intention or meaning. Cowell.

For; on account of. The initial word of several Latin phrases.

The English statute 33 Edw. I. St. 1, allowing a challenge to be entered against a protection, etc.

The word used in introducing a proviso (which see.) Ordinarily it sig nifies or expresses a condition ; but this is not invariable, for, according to the context, it may import a

A kind of service of tenure. Blount says it signifies an old-fashioned spur with one point ouly, which the tenant, holding land by this tenure, was to find for the king. Wharton.

In Spanish law. People; all the inhabitants of any country or place, without distinction. A town, township, or municipality. White, New Itecop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6, I 4. This term

Relating to punishment; having the character of punishment or penalty ; inflicting punishment or a penalty.

A term used in heraldry; the color commonly called “purple,” expressed in engravings by lines in bend sinister. In the arms of princes it was formerly called “mercury,” and in those of

as applied to a bond, or any other legal instrument, signifies bringing an action upon it, or making it the subject of an action.

A practical construction of a couslitution or statute is one determined, not by judicial decision, but practice sanctioned by general consent. Farmers’ & Mechanics’ Bank v. Smith, 3 Serg. & it. tl’a.)

Such as arise merely and immediately from the ground ; as grain of all sorts, hops, hay, wood, fruit, herbs. 2 Bl. Comm. 23; 2 Steph. Comm. 722.

ly happens. Post v. Pearsall, 22 Wend. (N. Y.) 425, 475. Praesnmptio violenta plena probatio. Co. Litt 66. Strong presumption Is full proof. Praesnmptio violenta valet in lege. Strong presumption is of

Liable to be returned or rendered up at the mere demand or request of another; lience held or retained only ou sufferance or by permission; aud by au extension of meaning, doubtful,

In Scotch practice. To examine beforehand. Arkley, 232.

A forejudgment; bias; preconceived opinion. A leaning towards one side of a cause for some reason other than a conviction of its justice. Willis v. State, 12 Ga. 449; Hungerford v. Cushing,

In ecclesiastical law. A clerk who has been presented by his patron to a bishop in order to be instituted in a church.

In canon law. A fund or revenue appropri ated by the founder for the subsistence of a priest, without being erected into any title or benefice, chapel, prebend, or priory. It is