Category: P

Those by means whereof the benefit or estate is created or first arises; as distinguished from those whereby it may be enlarged, restrained. transferred, or extinguished. The term includes feoffment, gift, grant,

An office of the English parliament where the business of obtaining private acts of parliament is conducted. 6. A solemn and formal legislative declaration of popular rights and liberties, promulgated on certain

A public corporation is one created by the state for political purposes and to act as an agency in the administration of civil government, generally within a particular territory or subdivision of

The state of a line of coast proclaimed to be under blockade in time of war, when the naval force on watch is not sufficient to repel a real attempt to enter.

Those whose operations serve the needs of the general public or conduce to the comfort and convenience of an entire community, such as railroads, gas, water, and electric light companies. The business

A blockade which is not only established in fact, but is notified, by the government directing it, to other governments; as distinguished from a simple blockade, which may be established by a

That credit which a person possesses as an individual, and which is founded on the opinion entertained of his character and business standing.

A term formerly used in English politics to describe a borough entitled to send a representative to parliament, in which a single individual, either as the principal landlord or by reason of

An artificial boundary, consisting of some monument or landmark set up by the hand of man to mark the beginning or direction of a boundary line of lands.

A natural boundary; a natural object or landmark used as a boundary of a tract of land, or as a beginning point for a boundary line.

Chapels owned by private persons, and used by themselves and tlieir families, are called ‘ ‘private,” as opposed to chapels of case, which are built for the accommodation of particular districts within

In English law. Those belonging to private persons who have purchased or erected them with a view to profit or otherwise

In real property law. A power is an authority to do some act in relation to real property, or to the creation or revocation of an estate therein, or a charge thereon,

1. A place, inclosed by public authority, for the temporary detention of stray animals. Ilarrimau v. Fifield, 30 Vt. 345; Wooley v. Grotou, 2 Cush. (Mass.) 308. A pound-oicrf is said to

In practice. An allowance to the sheriff of so much in the pound upon the amount levied under an execution. Bowe v. Campbell, 2 Civ. Proc. R. (N. Y.) 234. The money

Fr. In French law. The formula which a creditor prefixes to his signature when he gives a receipt.

Fr. For account of whom it may concern.

L. Fr. Au ancient writ addressed to the mayor or bailiff of a city or town, requiring him to make proclamation concerning nuisances, etc. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 176.

L. Fr. An ancient writ whereby the crown seized the land which the wife of its deceased tenant, who held in capite, had for her dower, if she married without leave, it

Fr. In French law. The preliminary negotiations or bargainings which lead to a contract between the parties. As in English law, these form no part of the contract when completed. The term