Category: P

Lat In the civil law. A broker; one who negotiated or arranged the terms of a contract between two parties, as between buyer and seller; one who negotiated a marriage; a match-maker.

One versed in, or writing upon, public law, the science and principles of government, or international law.

Lat. A point of time; an Indivisible period of time; the shortest space of time; an instant. Calvin.

A share; a part in a division ; that part of an estate, formerly held in common, which is by partition allotted to any one of the parties. The word was an-

In practice. To place in due form before a court; to place among the records of a court

An instrument authorizing a person to act as the agent or attorney of the person granting it. See LETTER OF ATTORNEY

Lat In Roman law. A herald or crier.

the offense called “prcemunire” being the introduction of a foreign power into the king- dom, and creating imperium in impcrio, by paying that obedience to papal process which constitutionally belonged to the

Is a petition with which a bill in equity used to conclude, to the effect that a writ of subpoena might Issue against the defendant to compel him to answer upon oath

Another form of the name of the written instructions to the clerk of court; also spelled “praecipe,” (q. v.)

An assignment of property for the benefit of creditors, made by an insolvent debtor, in which it is directed that a preference (right to be paid first in full) shall be given

L. Fr. Near. Cy pros, so near; as near. See CY PKES.

See PEINE FORTE ET DURE.

In the civil law. Tbe right of a judge to take cognizance of an action over which he has concurrent juris- diction with another judge. In canon law. The right which a

A law French word, signifying first; primary.

The chief of a convent; next in dignity to an abbot.

Persons connected together, or having a mutual interest in the same action or thing, by some relation other thau that of actual contract between them; persons whose interest in an estate is

For the defendant. Commonly abbreviated “pro def.”

As a legacy; by the title of a legacy. A species of usucaption. Dig. 41, 8.

Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandmother. Inst. 3, 6, 3; Dig. 38, 10, 1, 5.