Category: P

As used in contradistinction to public law. the term means all that part of the law which is administered between citizen and citizeu, or which is concerned with the definition, regulation, and

For confessed; as confessed. A term applied to a bill in equity, and the decree founded upon it, where no answer is made to it by the defendant 1 Barb. Ch. Pr.

For that turn. 3 Wils. 233, arg.

For the whole; as one; jointly ; without division. Dig. 50, 17, 141, 1.

In old English law. Strictly, an accomplice in felony who to save himself confessed the fact, and charged or accused any other as principal or accessory, against whom he was bound to

one to a high office; as, such a prince was proclaimed emperor. In practice. The declaration made by the crier, by authority of the court, that something is about to be done.

In French law. An officer of the imperial court who either personally or by his deputy prosecutes every one who is accused of a crime according to the forms of French law.

A public declaration respecting something. Cod. 10, 41, 6. In ecclesiastical law. The act of entering into a religious order. See 17 Vin. Abr. 645. Also a calling, vocation, known employment ;

A declaration, verbal or written, made by one person to another for a good or valuable consideration in the nature of a covenant by which the promisor binds himself to do or

Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandfather’s brother. Inst 3, 6, 3; Bract, fol. 686.

In Spanish law. Property. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 5,

In criminal law. A criminal action; a proceeding instituted and carried on by due course of law, before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining the guilt or innocence of a

Those who adhered to the doctrine of Luther; so called because, in 1529, they protested against a decree of the emperor Charles V. and of the diet of Spires, and declared that

In old English law. A provider, or purveyor. Spelman. Also a person nominated to be the next incumbent of a benefice (not yet vacant) by the pope.

Lat In Roman law. A farmer of the customs; a publican. Calvin.

Fr. Paternal power. In the French law, the male parent has the following rights over the person of his child: (1) If child is under sixteen years of age, he may procure

The act of cleansing or exonerating one’s self of a crime, accusation, or suspicion of guilt by denying the charge on oath or by ordeal. Canonical purgation was made by the party’s

In old English law. A providing of necessaries for the king’s house. Cowell.

In feudal law. A kind of benefices, so called because they were possessed by the more eminent templars, whom the chief master by his authority created and called “frwecptores Templi.”

The fee paid on suing out the writ of covenant, on levying fines, before the fine was passed. 2 Bl. Comm. 350.