Category: P

Lat. Reward; compensation. Prwmium assecuraiionis, compensation for insurance ; premium of insurance. Locc. de Jur. Mar. lib. 2, c. 5,

The request contained in a bill in equity that the court will grant tlie process, aid. or relief which the complainant desires. Also, by extension, the term is ap- plied to that

A constable’s or police district. The immediate neighborhood of a palace or court. A poll-district. See Union Pac. Ry. Co. v. Ryan, 113 U. S. 516, 5 Sup. Ct. 601, 28 L.

A term used in English law to designate a new issue of shares of stock in a company, which, to facilitate the disposal of them, are accorded a priority or preference over

T. Ashenfelter, 4 N. M. 93, 12 Pac. 879; State y. Archibald, 5 N. D. 359, 60 N. YV. 234; Du- luth Elevator Co. v. White. 11 N. D. 534, 90 N.

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.