Category: P

An iuclosure. Anything done to the nuisance or hurt of the public demesnes, or the highways, etc., by iuclosure or building, endeavoring to make that private which ought to be public. The

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,

Lat. In Roman law. Cattle; beasts. The term included all quadrupeds that fed in flocks. Dig. 32, 05, 4.

The rank or dignity of a peer or nobleman. Also the body of nobles taken collectively.

In ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical punishment inflicted by an ec- clesiastical court for some spiritual offense. Ayl. Par. 420.

n Mexico. A debtor held by his creditor in a qualified servitude to work out the debt; a serf. Webster. In India. A footman; a soldier; an inferior officer; a servant employed

Lat. In old practice. At length.

Lat. By himself or itself; in itself; taken alone; inherently; in isolation; unconnected with other matters.

L. Lat A pardon for a man who, for contempt in not yielding obedience to the process of a court, is outlawed, and afterwards of his own accord surrenders. Reg. Orig. 28.

A dispensation granted to a clerk, who, being defective in capacity for a benefice or other ecclesiastical function, is de facto admitted to it. Cowell.

Generally, this term denotes the x>erson who actually commits a crime or delict, or by whose immediate agency it occurs. But, where a servant of a rail- road company is killed through

To persuade is to induce to act. Persuading is inducing others to act. Crosby v. Hawthorn, 25 Ala. 221; Wilson v. State, 3S Ala. 411; Nash v. Douglass, 12 Abb. Prac. (N.

A written address, embodying an application or prayer from the person or persons preferring it, to the power, body, or person to whom it is presented, for the exercise of his or

An instrument by which locks are opened without a key.

One who steals petty things.

A technical word which must always be used in an indictment for piracy. 3 Inst. 112.

In old records. A pleader. Cowell; Spelman.