Category: P

To direct suspension ot proceedings of parliament; to terminate a session.

(1) The period during which Oliver Cromwell ruled in England. (2) Also the office of protector. (3) The relation of the English sovereign, till I he year 1804, to the Ionian Islands.

exchange to the drawee in order to meet the bill, or property remaining in the drawee’s hands or due from him to the drawer, and appropriated to that purpose. In ecclesiastical law.

Pertaining to a state, nation, or whole community; proceeding from, re- lating to, or affecting the whole body of people or an entire community. Open to all; notorious. Common to all or

Va. 375, 48 Am. Rep. 398; McMillan v. Harris, 110 Ga. 72, 35 S. E. 334, 48 L. R. A. 345, 78 Am. St. Rep. 93.

The word “purchase” is used in law in contradistinction to “descent,” and means any other mode of acquiring real property than by the common course of in- heritance. But it is also

The name by which the complainant or plaintiff Is known in the eccle- siastical courts, and in the Scotch law.

See INSANITT. 970 QILE ACCESSIONUM Q

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.

Silent uniform course of practice, uninterrupted though not supported by legal decisions. See Cal t on v. Bragg, 15 East, 220; Thompson v. Musser, 1 Dall. 404, 1 L. Ed. 222. Precedents

This term, in its natural and ordinary signification, is understood to be something greater or superior iu power and influence to others, with which it is connected or compared. So understood, a

This officer, so constituted by letters patent, has preaudience over the bar after tlie attorney and solicitor general and queen’s advocate. 3 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 274, note.

Keeping safe from harm; avoiding Injury, destruction, or decay. This term always presupposes a real or existing danger. See Gribble v. Wilsou, 101 Tenn. 612, 49 S. W. 736; Neuendorff v. Dur-

Not agreeable to law; exceeding the limits of law; not legal.

The first mowing; a grant of a right to have the first crop of grass. 1 Chit. Pr. 181.

Lat. In the civil law. The prince; the emperor. Princeps et respublica ex jnsta causa possnnt rem meam auferre. 12 Coke, 13. The prince and the republic, for a just cause, can

One who is deprived of his liberty; one who is against his will kept in confinement or custody. A person restrained of his liberty upon any action, civil or criminal, or upon

For; in respect of; on account of; in behalf of. The introductory word of many Latin phrases.