Category: P

In practice. To place in due form before a court; to place among the records of a court

An instrument authorizing a person to act as the agent or attorney of the person granting it. See LETTER OF ATTORNEY

Lat In Roman law. A herald or crier.

the offense called “prcemunire” being the introduction of a foreign power into the king- dom, and creating imperium in impcrio, by paying that obedience to papal process which constitutionally belonged to the

Is a petition with which a bill in equity used to conclude, to the effect that a writ of subpoena might Issue against the defendant to compel him to answer upon oath

Another form of the name of the written instructions to the clerk of court; also spelled “praecipe,” (q. v.)

An assignment of property for the benefit of creditors, made by an insolvent debtor, in which it is directed that a preference (right to be paid first in full) shall be given

L. Fr. Near. Cy pros, so near; as near. See CY PKES.

See PEINE FORTE ET DURE.

In the civil law. Tbe right of a judge to take cognizance of an action over which he has concurrent juris- diction with another judge. In canon law. The right which a

A law French word, signifying first; primary.

The chief of a convent; next in dignity to an abbot.

Persons connected together, or having a mutual interest in the same action or thing, by some relation other thau that of actual contract between them; persons whose interest in an estate is

For the defendant. Commonly abbreviated “pro def.”

As a legacy; by the title of a legacy. A species of usucaption. Dig. 41, 8.

Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandmother. Inst. 3, 6, 3; Dig. 38, 10, 1, 5.

This word is commonly opposed to the sum of legal principles consti- tuting the substance of the law, and denotes the body of rules, whether of practice or ot pleading, whereby rights

The writing or instrument which authorizes a procurator to act Cowell; Termes de la Ley.

Treasonably. This is a technical word formerly used in indictments for treason, when they were written in Latin. Tomlins.

In practice. The name of a writ issued by a superior court, directed to the judge and parties of a suit in an inferior court, commanding them to cease from the prosecution