Category: P

A method or system of alleviating or curing certain forms of disease, particularly diseases of the nervous system or such as are traceable to nervous disorders, by suggestion, persuasion, encouragement, the inspiration

In the civil law. A condition intermediate between infancy and puberty, continuing in boys from the seventh to the fourteenth year of their age, and In girls from seven to twelve.

Lat. In the civil law. A ward or infant under the age of puberty; a person under the authority of a tutor, (q. v.) Pnpillus pati posse non intelligitur. A pupil or

The person appointed by the master of a ship or vessel, whose duty It is to take care of the ship’s books, in which every thing on board is inserted, as well

In Hindu law. A foot- passenger ; a person employed as a night- watch in a village, and as a runner or messenger on the business of the revenue. Wharton.

The form or mode of proceeding in courts of justice for the enforcement of rights or the redress of wrongs, as distinguished from the substantive law which gives the right or deuouuces

Lat. In Roman law. A robber. See Dig. 50, 17, 120.

Lat. A passing over or omission. Used in the Roman law to describe the act of a testator in excluding a given heir from the inheritance by silently passing him by, that

Lat. In the civil law. A convention whereby one allows another the use of a thing or the exercise of a right gratuitously till revocation. The bailee acquires thereby the lawful possession

Proclamation.

A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church. Webster.

In criminal practice. The written notice taken by a grand jury of any offense, from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of

To feign or simulate; to hold that out as real which is false or baseless. Rrown v. Perez (Tex. Civ. App.) 25 S. W. 9S3; Powell v. Yeazel, 40 Neb. 225, 04

A minister of a church. A person in the second order of the ministry, as distinguished from bishops aud deacons.

Lat In old English law. A first-born or eldest son. Bract, fol. 33. PRIMUM DECRETUM. Lat In the canon law. The first decree; a preliminary decree granted on the non-appearance of a

oned debtor, who is out on bonds, may go at will. See GAOL.

A person who is In privity with another. See PRIVIES; I’RIVITT. As an adjective, the word has practically the same meaning as “private.”

In pleading. For this that. This is a phrase of affirmation, and is sufficiently direct and positive for introducing a material averment. 1 Sauud. 117, no. 4; 2 Chit. PI. 369-393.

Proportionately; according to a certain rate, percentage, or proportion. Thus, the creditors (of the same class) of an insolvent estate are to be paid pro rata: that is, each is to receive

The act of proving; evidence; proof. Also trial; test; the time of novitiate. Used In the latter sense iu the monastic orders. In modern criminal administration, allowing a person convicted of some