Category: P

In Spanish law. Property. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 5,

In criminal law. A criminal action; a proceeding instituted and carried on by due course of law, before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining the guilt or innocence of a

Those who adhered to the doctrine of Luther; so called because, in 1529, they protested against a decree of the emperor Charles V. and of the diet of Spires, and declared that

In old English law. A provider, or purveyor. Spelman. Also a person nominated to be the next incumbent of a benefice (not yet vacant) by the pope.

Lat In Roman law. A farmer of the customs; a publican. Calvin.

Fr. Paternal power. In the French law, the male parent has the following rights over the person of his child: (1) If child is under sixteen years of age, he may procure

The act of cleansing or exonerating one’s self of a crime, accusation, or suspicion of guilt by denying the charge on oath or by ordeal. Canonical purgation was made by the party’s

In old English law. A providing of necessaries for the king’s house. Cowell.

Lat. Masters. The chief clerks in chancery were formerly so called, because they had the direction of making out remedial writs. 2 Iteeve, Eng. Law, 251.

The mayor of a town.

In Spanish colonial law. An order emanating from the sov ereign, and differing from a ccdula only In form and in the mode of promulgation. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 93, note.

In English and American law. An order or direction, emanating from authority, to an officer or body of officers, commanding him or them to do some act within the scope of their

One who, by settlement upon the public land, or by cultivation of a portion of it, has obtained the right to purchase a portion of the land thus settled upon or cultivated,

In Spanish law. Pledge. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 7.

One placed in authority over others; a chief officer; a presiding or managing officer; a governor, ruler, or director. The chairman, moderator, or presiding officer of a legislative or deliberative body, appointed

In Scotch law. A courthouse, or hall of justice. 3 How. State Tr. 425.

The mother church. 1 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 118.

I,at. Principal; a principal debtor; a principal in a crime. Principalis deket semper excuti ante- quam per.cniatizr ad fidcijussores. The principal should always be exhausted before coming upon the sureties. 2 lust.

A vessel owned, equipped, and armed by one or more private individ uals, and duly commissioned by a belligerent power to go ou cruises and make war upon the enemy, usually by

For counsel given. An annuity pro connilio amounts to a condition, but in a feoffment or lease for life, etc., it is the consideration, and does not amount to a condition ;