Category: P

A plaintiff In a suit of duplex querela, (q. v.) 2 Prob. Div. 192.

PK0P:02 SO- BRINA. Lat. In the civil law. The son or daughter of a great-uncle or great-aunt, paternal or maternal. Inst. 3, 0, 3.

This term is almost synonymous with “owner,” (q. v.,) as in the phrase “riparian proprietor.” A person entitled to a trade-mark or a design under the acts for the registration or patenting

A document published by a company or corporation, or by persons acting as its agents or assignees, setting forth the nature and objects of an issue of shares, debentures, or other securities

As appears by the record. In the Latin phraseology of pleading, this was the proper for- mula for making reference to a record.

Immediate; nearest; next in order.

Lat. In the civil law. Public law; that law which regards the state of the commonwealth. Inst. 1, 1, 4.

In medical jurisprudence. A wound made by the insertion into the body of any instrument having a sharp point. The term is practically synonymous with “stab.”

party;” but it is now used in relation to any kind of partition proceedings. See Seiders v. Giles, 141 Pa. 93, 21 AU. 014.

To open. To put out lights; to open or cut windows. 11 East, 372. Putagium hsereditatem non adiniit. 1 Beeve, Eng. Law, c. 3, p. 117. Incontinence does not take away an

Every power of disposition is deemed absolute, by means of which the donee of such power is enabled in his life-time to dispose of the entire fee for his own benefit; and,

Things to be previously known iu order to the understanding of something which follows. Wharton.

Lat. Forename, or first name. The first of the three names by which the Romans were commonly distinguished. It marked the individual, and was commonly written with one letter; as “A.” for

A clause at the beginning of a constitution or statute explanatory of the reasons for its enactment and the objects sought to be accomplished. See Townsend v. State, 147 Ind. 024, 47

Precipitins are formations in the blood of an animal induced by repeated injections into its veins of the blood-serum of an animal of another species; and their importance in diagnosis lies in

Possessing or accorded a priority, advantage, or privilege. Generally denoting a prior or superior claim or right of payment as against another thing of PREFERRED 931

Lat. In civil and ecclesiastical law. An elder ; a presbyter ; a priest. Cod. 1, 3, 6, 20; Nov. 6.

In old English law. A duty In money to be paid by the sheriff upon his ac- count in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands. Cowell.

The statute 34 & 35 Vict. c. 112. passed for the purpose of securing a better supervision over habitual criminals. This act provides that a person who is for a second time

In old English law. The first of any degree of men. 1 Mon. Angl. 838.