Category: P

Lat Private. Privatum jus, private law. Inst. 1, 1, 4. Privatum commodum publico cedit. Private good yields to public. Jenk. Cent, p. 223, case SO. The interest of au individual should give

For want (failure) of purchasers.

According to his interest; to the extent of his interest. Thus, a third party may be allowed to intervene in a suit pro interessc suo.

Lat. In the civil law. A great paternal aunt; the sister of one’s grandfather.

Lat. A good and lawful man. A phrase particularly applied to a juror or witness who was free from all exception. 3 Bl. Comm. 102.

The generation of children. One of the principal ends of marriage is the procreation of children. lust. tit. 2, in pr.

Treason; treachery.

Mia. Co. (C. C.) 49 Fed. 549; Bingham v. Salene, 15 Or. 20S, 14 Pac. 523, 3 Am. St. Rep. 152; Pierce v. Keator, 70 N. Y. 422, 26 Am. Rep. 612.

Containing or consisting of a promise; in the nature of a promise; stipulating or engaging for a future act or course of conduct.

Lat. The nearest of kin to a deceased person. Propinquior excludit propinquum; propinquus rcmotmu; ct remotus remo- tiorem. Co. Litt. 10. He who is nearer excludes him who is near; he who

A writ addressed to a sheriff to try by an inquest iu whom certain property, previous to distress, subsisted. Finch, Law, 316. Proprietates verborum servanda; snnt. The proprieties of words [proper meanings

Lat. In the civil law. A wife’s grandmother.

The first draft or rough minutes of an instrument or transaction; the original copy of a dispatch, treaty, or other document. Brande. A document serving as the preliminary to, or opening of,

In English law. An officer of the royal navy who had the charge of prisoners taken at sea, and sometimes also on land. In military law, the of- ficer acting as the

In the civil law. The name of an action introduced by the pra;tor Publicius, the object of which was to recover a thing which had been lost Its effects were similar to

The division of a written or printed document into sentences by means of periods; aud of sentences into smaller divisions by means of commas, semi- colons, colons, etc.

To steal; to commit larceny or theft. McCann v. U. S., 2 Wyo. 298.

In pleading. To confide to; to rely upon; to submit to. As in tbe phrase, “the said defendant puts himself upon the country;” that is, he trusts his case to the arbitrament

A power or authority conferred by one person by deed or will upon another (called the “donee”) to appoint, that is, to select and nominate, the person or persons who are to

In French law. Under the regime en eommun- aute, when that is of the conventional kind, if the surviving husband or wife is eutitleil to take any portion of the common property