Category: P

In English ecclesiastical law. A right of the crown to name to the first prebend that becomes vacant after the accession of the sovereign, in every church of the empire. This right

The act of an insolvent debtor who, in distributing his property or in assigning it for the benefit of his creditors, pays or secures to oue or more creditors the full amount

Forethought; preconceived ; premeditated. See Territory v. Bannl- gan, 1 Dak. 451. 46 N. W. 507; People v. Clark, 7 N. T. 385.

See IMPRESSMENT.

To hinder or preclude. To stop or intercept the approach, access, or performance of a thing. Webster; U. S. v. Souders, 27 Fed. Cas. 1,2(59; Green v. State, 109 Ga. 536, 35

To stand first or paramount to take precedence or priority of; to outrank ; as, in the sentence “taxes prime all other liens.”

Lat. The former; earlier; preceding ; preferable or preferred.

Fr. Pregnant privately. The term is applied to a woman who is pregnant, but not yet quick with child.

For, or In case of, default of issue. 2 Salk. 020.

For breach or faith. 3 Bl. Comm. 52.

Lat. In the civil law. A great-great-aunt.

In practice. A writ by which a cause which has been removed from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari or otherwise is sent down again to the same court, to

A procurator, proxy, or attorney. More particularly, an officer of the admiralty and ecclesiastical courts whose duties and business correspond exactly to those of an attorney at law or solicitor in chancery.

A traitor.

That state of a business which is neither the commencement nor the end. Some act doue after the matter has commenced, and before it is completed. Plowd. 343. Proliibetur ne quis faciat

In the law relating to corporations, those persons are called the “promoters” of a company who first associate themselves together for the purpose of organizing the company, issuing its prospectus, procuring subscriptions

Kindred; parentage.

The French law term corresponding to our “property,” or the right of enjoying and of disposing of things in the most absolute manner, subject only to the laws. Brown.

Looking forward; contemplating the future. A law is said to be prospective (as opposed to retrospective) when it is applicable only to cases which shall arise after its enactment.

Lat. In the civil law. He who, not being the tutor of a minor, has administered his property or affairs as if he had been, whether he thought himself legally invested with