Category: P

In old English law. A custom claimed by keepers in forests, and some times by bailiffs of hundreds, to take man’s meat, horse’s meat, and dog’s meat of the tenants and inhabitants

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.

Immediately; now; at once. A right which may be exercised “presently” is opposed to one in reversion or remainder.

In French law. Loan. A contract by which one of the parties delivers an article to the other, to be used by the latter, on condition of his returning, after having used

Where goods intended to be exported are put direct from the station of the warehouse into a ship alongside, the exporter fills up a document to authorize the receiving the goods on

1. The state of being the first-born among several children of the same parents; seniority by birth in the same family. 2. The superior or exclusive right possessed by the eldest son,

L. Fr. A taking in another place. A plea in abatement in the action of replevin. 2 Ld. Raym. 1016, 1017.

The term “privity” means mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property. The executor is in privity with the testator, the heir with the ancestor, the assignee with the assignor,

As a purchaser; by the title of a purchaser. A species of usucaption. Dig. 41, 4. See Id. 5, 3, 13, 1.

For the plaintiff.

Lat Proof; more particularly direct, as distinguished from Indirect or circumstantial evidence.

A proceeding to determine boundaries, in use in some of tbe United States, similar in all respects to the English perambulation, (q. v.)

The old name for church-wardens. Paroch. Antiq. 562.

In a profane manner. A technical word in indictments for the statutory offense of profanity. See Updegraph v. Com., 11 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 394.

Iu medical jurisprudence. A word used to designate the destruction of the human offspring. Jurists divide the subject into foeticide, or tlie destruction of the foetus in utcro, and infanticide, or the