Category: P

A term formerly applied to voters in certain boroughs of England, where all who boil (wallop) a pot were entitled to vote. Webster.

Lat. In the civil law. A pact. An agreement or convention without specific name, and without consideration, which, however, might, in its nature, produce a civil obligation. Heinecc. Elem. lib. 3, tit.

In old English law. An ancient custom, where children were born out of wedlock, and their parents afterwards intermarried. The children, together with the father and mother, stood under a cloth extended

Above; upwards. That which is superior; usually applied to the highest lord of the fee of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, as distinguished from the mesne (or intermediate) lord. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 135.

A park, (q. v.) A pound for stray cattle. Spelman.

The judgment of peers; trial by a jury of one’s peers or equals.

In French law. A division made between co-proprietors of a particular estate held by them in common. It is the operation by means of which the goods of a succession are divided

A person concerned or having or taking part in any affair, matter, transaction, or proceeding, considered individually. See PARTIES. The term “parties” includes all persons who are directly interested in the subject-

An ancient court of record in Liverpool, once called the “mayor’s court of pays sage,” but now usually called the “court of the passage of the borough of Liverpool.” This court was

That which belongs to the father or comes from him.

An honor conferred on men of the first quality in the time of the English Saxon kings.

The person pawning goods or delivering goods to another in pledge.

Lat In the civil law. The offense of stealing or embezzling the public money. Hence the common English word “peculation,” but “embezzlement” is the proper legal term. 4 Bl. Comm. 121, 122.

In feudal law. The vassals of a lord who sat in his court as judges of their co-vassals, and were called “peers,” as being each other’s equals, or of the same condition.

Lat. Pending; as lis pendens, a pending suit.

In Spanish-American law. A lot of land of fifty feet front, and one hundred feet deep. Originally the portion granted to foot-soldiers of spoils taken or lands conquered in war

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