Category: P

In old English law. The providing corn, fuel, victuals, and other necessaries for the king’s house. Cowell.

A buyer; one who provided for the royal household.

In Scotch law. Power. See LIEGE POUSTIE. A word formed from the Latin “potestas.”

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

The ownership of a thing is the right of one or more persons to possess and use it to the exclusion of others. In this Code, the thing of which there may

A small inclosure for deer or other animals.

A small book, bound in paper covers, usually printed in the octavo form, aud stitched. See U. S. v. Chase, 135 U. S. 255, 10 Sup. Ct. 756, 34 L. Ed. 117.

See PARAPHERNALIA.

The lawful father or the mother of a person. Appeal of Gibson, 154 Mass. 378, 28 N. E. 290. This word is dis- tinguished from “ancestors” in including only the immediate progenitors

A park-keeper.

In old pleading. The parties to the fine had nothing; that is, had no estate which could be conveyed by It. A plea to a fine which had been levied by a

Lat Little; but little. Parum cavet natura. Nature takes little heed. Vandenlieuvel v. United Ins. Co., 2 Johns. Cas. (N. Y.) 127, 166.

He who has the interest or command of the passage of a river; or a lord to whom a duty Is paid for passage. Wharton.

In medical jurisprudence. The science or doctrine of diseases. That part of medicine which explains the nature of diseases, their causes, and their symptoms. See Bacon v. U. S. Mut. Acc. Ass’n,

A policeman assigned to duty in patrolling a certain beat or district; also the designation of a grade or rank in the organized police force of large cities, a patrolman being generally

Lat. The peace of the king; that is, the peace, good order, and security for life and property which it is one of the objects of government to maintain, and which the

In English law. A branch of and annexed to the court of arches. It has a jurisdiction over all those PECULIUM 885 PEDIS POSSESSIO parishes dispersed through the province of Canterbury, in

L. Fr. In old English law. A special form of punishment for those who, being arraigned for felony, obstinately “stood mute;” that is, refused to plead or to put themselves upon trial.

In Scotch law. A piece or parcel of ground.