Category: P

Lat. By fraud. Where a plea alleges matter of discharge, and the replication avers that the discharge was fraudulently obtained and is therefore invalid, it is called a “replication per fraud- em.”

L. Lat By the whole court A common phrase in the old reports.

As applied to an estate, perdurable signifies lasting long or forever. Thus, a disseisor or tenant in fee upon condition has as high and great an estate as the rightful owner or

n v. Peas- lee, 20 How. 579, 15 L. Ed. 1022. PERIODICAL. Recurring at fixed intervals ; to be made or done, or to happen, at successive periods separated by determined intervals

In Its most extensive sense, “perquisites” signifies anything obtained by industry or purchased with money, dif PERQUISITES 895 PERSONALIS ACTIO ferent from that which descends from a father or ancestor. Bract. 1.

To belong or relate to, whether by nature, appointment or custom. See People v. Chicago Theological Seminary, 174 111. 177, 51 N. E. 198.

A droitural action ; that is. one in which the plaintiff seeks to establish and enforce, by an appropriate legal proceeding, his right of property, or his title, to the subject-matter in

Money paid at fairs for breaking ground for booths.

A particular officer serving on board a ship during the course of a voyage, and having the charge of the helm and the ship’s route; or a person taken on board at

In old Scotch law. An excavation or cavity in the earth in which women who were under sentence of death were drowned.

In old English law. A public assembly at which the king presided, and which comprised men of all degrees, met for consultation about the great affairs of the kingdom. Cowell. A court;

In old English law. A suit or action. Thus, the power to “hold pleas” is the power to take cognizance of actions or suits; so “common pleas” are actions or suits between

The party delivering goods in pledge; the party pledging. Story, Bailm.

An allowance of wood which tenants are entitled to, for repairing their plows and other implements of husbandry. PLOW-LAND 907 PLUS VALET CONSUETUDO

Iu Spanish law. A colonizer ; he who peoples ; the founder of a col- ouy.

In the civil law. An offer not yet accepted by the person to whom it is made. Langd. Cont.

In old English law. Duty paid for the reparation of bridges; also a due to the lord of the fee for persons or merchandises that pass over rivers, bridges, etc. Cowell.

1. In old English law, this title was given to an oflicer of the courts who carried a rod or stall before the justices. 2. A person who keeps a gate or

Lat. The power or force of the county. The entire population of a county above the age of fifteen, which a sheriff may summon to his assistance in cer- tain cases; as

In Vermont. Waters flowing through or lying upon inclosed or cultivated lands, which are preserved for the exclusive use of the owner or occupant by his posting notices (according to the statute)