Category: P

belligerent, and claimed as enemy’s property, and therefore liable to appropriation and condemnation under the laws of war. See 1 C. Rob. Adm. 22S. Captured property regularly condemned by the sentence of

For the fact; as a fact; considered or held as a fact.

For the affair immediately in hand; adapted to meet the particular occasion. Thus, a course of judicial action adopted under pressure of the exigencies of the affair in hand, rather than in

One who is upon trial. A convicted offender who is allowed to go at large, under suspension of sentence, during good behavior. Probationes debent esse evidentes, scil. pergpicuse et faciles intelligi. Co.

An error in chronology ; dating a thing before it happened.

A pimp; one that procures the seduction or prostitution of girls. They are punishable by statute in England and America.

Lat. In the civil law. That which descends to us from our as- cendants. Dig. 23, 3, 5.

In ecclesiastical law. The president or chairman of a convocation.

To utter formally, officially, and solemnly ; to declare aloud and in a formal manner. In this sense a court is said to “pronounce” judgment or a sentence. See Ex parte Crawford,

In French law. The term “propres” or “Mens propres” (as distinguished from “acquets”) denotes all property inherited by a person, whether by devise or ah intcstato. from his direct or collateral relatives,

In the civil law. Among the Romans, a man was said to be “proscribed” when a reward was offered for his head; but the term was more usually applied to those who

1. A formal declaration made by a person interested or concerned in some act about to be done, or already performed, and in relation thereto, whereby he expresses his dissent or disapproval,

A condition or provision which is inserted in a deed, lease, mortgage, or contract, and on the performance or nonperformance of which the validity of the deed, etc., frequently depends; it usually

necessarily a place devoted solely to the uses of the public, but a place which is in point of fact public rather than private, a place visited by many persons and usually

In law French. Afterwards; since.

One who acquires real property in any other mode than by descent. One who acquires either real or personal property by buying it for a price in money; a buyer; vendee. In

As used in constitutional law, this right includes personal freedom, freedom of contract, exemption from oppression or invidious discrimination, the right to follow one’s individual preference in the choice of an occupation

In Scotch law. The decisions of the court of session, as evidence of the practice or custom of the country. Bell.

Lat In Roman law. The name of an ollicer who, from the time of Augustus, had tbe superintendence of the city and its police, with jurisdiction extending one hundred miles from the

In old Scotch practice. A form of action known in the forms of the court of session, by which a delay to discuss a suspension or advocation was got the better of.