Category: P

Lat. By its own force; by its intrinsic meaning.

Common lewdness; whoredom; the act or practice of a woman who permits any man who will pay her price to have sexual intercourse with her. See Com. v. Cook, 12 Mete. (Mass.)

To establish a fact or hypothesis as true by satisfactory and sufficient evidence. To present a claim or demand against a bankrupt or insolvent estate, and establish by evidence or affidavit that

A person who is substituted or deputed by another to represent him and act for him, particularly in some meeting or public body. Also the instrument containing the appointment of such person.

Chastity; purity; continence.

An interpreter of the Hindu law ; a learned Brahmin.

A purpresture may be defined as an inclosure by a private party of a part of that which belongs to and ought to be open and free to the enjoyment of the

In English law. Time-bargains, or contracts for the sale of supposed stock on a future day.

See POINDING.

among immovables, and were called “prcsdia vulantia,” or “volatile estates.” 2 Bl. Comm. 428.

Lat. In Roman law. Forms of words (of a qualifying character) inserted in the formula; in which the claims in actions were expressed; and, as they occupied an early place In the

In English ecclesiastical law. A stipend granted in cathedral churches ; also, hut improperly, a prebendary. A simple prebend is merely a revenue; a prebend with dignity has some jurisdiction attached to

Lat. In pleading. The commencement of a replication to a plea in bar, by which the plaintiff “says that, by reason of anything in the said plea alleged, he ought not to

In medical Jurisprudence. The state of a female who has within her ovary or womb a fecundated germ, which gradually becomes developed in the latter receptacle. Duugl. Med. Diet.

A mode of acquiring title to incorporeal hereditaments grounded on the fact of immemorial or long-continued enjoyment. See Lucas v. Turnpike Co., 36 W. Vn. 427. 15 S. E. 182; Gayetty v.

In old English law. A payment or performance; the rendering of a service.

The consideration (usually In money) given for the purchase of a thing. It is true that “price” generally means the sum of money which an article is sold for; but this is

Lat. A writ directing a grant of the first benefice in the sovereign’s gift. Cowell. Primo excutienda est verb! vis, ne sermonis vitio obstrnatnr oratio, sive lex sine argument!*. Co. Litt 68.

A legal preference or precedence. When two persons have similar rights in respect of the same subject-matter, but one is entitled to exercise his right to the exclusion of the other, he

age.” Bract, fol. 200. Now called “privileged copyhold,” includi ng the tenure in ancient demesne. 2 Bl. Comm. 00, 100. Privilegia qua; re vera sunt in prae- judicium reipublicae, magis tameu ba-