Category: P

In English practice. A trial brought on by the defendant, in cases where the plaintiff, after issue joined, neglects to proceed to trial; so called from a clause in the writ to

In the civil law. A farmer of the public revenue; one who held a lease of some property from the public treasury. Dig. 39, 4, 1, 1; Id. 39, 4, 12, 3

Fr. Younger; subordinate; associate. The title by which the justices and barons of the several common-law courts at Westminster are distinguished from the chief justice and chief baron.

Absolute; complete; simple; unmixed; unqualified; free from conditions or restrictions; as in the phrases pure charity, pure debt, pure obligation, pure plea, pure villenage, as to which see the nouns.

Lat. A congenital idiot.

He who is engaged in the exercise or employment of any art or profession.

Lat. In Roman law. The chief officer of the night watch. His jurisdiction extended to certain offenses affecting the public peace, and even to larcenies; but be could inflict only slight punishments.

In French law. An expression used to designate those ordinances which concern the most important objects of the civil or ecclesiastical ad- ministration. Merl. Repert In the civil law. The answer given

The continuance of a suit by consent of both parties. Cowell.

In international law. The right of pre-emption is the right of a nation to detain the merchandise of strangers passing through her territories or seas, in order to afford to her subjects

baeher’s Estate. 168 Pa. 158, 32 Atl. 30; Cum- rnings v. Dearborn, 56 Vt. 441; State v. French, 120 ind. 220, 22 N. E. 108. The word is also used to denote

To preside over a court is to “hold” it,

In the civil law. The omission by a testator of some one of bis heirs who is legally entitled to a portion of the inheritance.

Lat. In the civil law. An imperial prerogative by which the emperor exercised the right of naming to the first prebend that became vacant after his accession, in every church of the

In English law. The younger sons and daughters of the sovereign, and other branches of the royal family who are not in the immediate line of succession. PRINCESS ROYAL. In English law.

L. Fr. Ready. In the old forms of oral pleading, this term expressed a tender or joinder of issue. Prins vitiis laboravimus, nunc legibus. 4 Inst. 70. We labored first with vices,

For and against. A phrase descriptive of the presentation of arguments or evidence on both sides of a disputed question.

For this turn; for this one particular occasion.

For a partner; the name of an action in behalf of a partner. A title of the civil law. Dig. 17. 2; Cod. 4, 37.

In the law of evidence. Having the effect of proof; tending to prove, or actually proving.