Category: P

Lat. Possibility; power.

Lat. In the civil law. A bargaining or agreeing of which pactum (the agreement itself) was the result. Calvin. It is used, however, as the synonym of “pactum.”

Possessing royal privileges. See COUNTY PALATINE.

Error in the computation of time.

The state or condition of holding title to lands jointly by parceners or co-parceners, before a division of the joint estate.

See DECLARATION.

The rector of a church; one that has full possession of all the rights of a parochial church. The appellation of “parson,” however it may be depreciated by familiar, clownish, and indiscriminate

A voluntary contract between two or more competent persons to place their money, effects, labor, and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, with the understanding that

v. 1. In practice. To utter or pronounce; as when the court passes sentence upon a prisoner. Also to proceed; to be rendered or given; as when judgment is said to pass

Know all men by these presents. Words with which letters of attorney anciently commenced. Reg. Orig. 3056, 300.

In the civil law. The private and exclusive ownership or dominion of an individual. Things capable of being possessed by a single person to the exclusion of all others (or which are

v. To deliver personal property to another in pledge, or as security for a debt or sum borrowed.

A measure of two gallons; a dry measure.

Foot-soldiers.

1. The sum of money which the obligor of a bond undertakes to pay by way of penalty, in the event of his omitting to perform or carry out the terms imposed

In ecclesiastical law. Pious oblations made at the feast of Pentecost by parishioners to their priests, and sometimes by inferior churches or parishes to the principal mother churches. They are also called

Lat. By the same. This phrase is commonly used to express “by, or from the mouth of, the same judge.” So “per eundem in cad em” means “by the same judge in

Lat By a leap or bound; by a sudden movement; passing over certain proceedings. 8 East, 511.

A measure of land containing five yards and a half, or sixteen feet and a half in length ; otherwise called a “rod” or “pole.” Cowell. As a unit of solid measure,

The risk, hazard, or contingency insured against by a policy of insurance.