P, C. c 72, §'2: Archb. Crim. Pl
390, adding also combinations by journeymen to raise wees
Terms beginning with "P" (639 total)
P. 68; Broom, Max
730, 732; Story, Ag. $ 195.
P. C. bk
2, c. 37, § 7; Cross v. People, 47
P. M. R. Co
v. Marine Ins. Co. (CO. C.) 71
P. R. Co
(C. O.) 82 Fed. 18; Middlebrook v. Ames, 5 Stew. & P. (Ala.) 166—Plea in bar. In practice. A plea which goes to bar thé plaintiff's action; that is, to defeat it absolutely and entirely. 1 Burrill, Pr. 162; 8 Bl. Comm...
P. R. Corp., 154 Mass
209, 28 N. E. 243, 13 L. R. A. 818; Tyson vy. Reynolds, 52 Iowa, 431, 3 N. W. 469.
P.E.L
(or P. E. I. Rep.). Island Reports (Haviland’s). .PF.S. P. FP. Smith’s Reports, vols. 51- 8114 Pennsylvania State.
Pa
631; Wells v. New England Mut. L. Ins. 181, 88 Am. Dec. 539. 412, 18 Atl. 1112; Com. vy. Aid Ass’n, 04 Pa. 439. 450; Sedgwick County Com’rs v- Bailey, 18 Kan. 608; May v. Rice, 91 Ind. 349; State v. Hegeman, 2 Pen...
Pa, 203; Wyman v. Gay, 90 Me
36, 37 AtL 325, 60 Am. St. Rep. 238: Howard B. & L.
Pa. ; 45 Am. Rep
394; Wickham v. Weil (Com. Pl.) 17 N. ¥. Supp. 518; Hinkle v.
Pa. Co. Ct
(or Pa. Co. Ct. R.). Pennsylvania County Court Reports.
Pa. Dist
(or Pa. Dist. R.). Pennsylvania
Pa. St
391. —Corporate franchise. The right to exist and do business as a corporation ; the right or privilege granted by the state or government to the persons forming an aggregate private corporation, and their successors, ...
Pac
1054. 777: St. Touts. etc., R. Co. v. Barnett, 65 Ark. 255, 45 S. W. 550; Aurora Branch R. 345.—Anoillary bill or suit. One growing out of and auxiliary to another action or suit, either at law or in equity. such as ...
Pac, 208.13 L. R. A. 187, 22'Am, St. Rep
314; O'Neill v. Gray, 39 Hun (N. Y.) 566; Kortright v. Cady, 21 N. Y. 344, 78 Am. Dec. 145.
Pac. R. Co., 191 Mo
236, 18 S. W. 817, 20 ; Rep. 601: Moser v. Union Traction
Pac. Ry. Co
v. Harris, 28 Kan. 210; Campbell v. Gilbert, 57 Ala. 569. v. Ryan, 113 U. S. 516, 5 Sup.
Pace v. Bartles
47 N. J. Eq. 170, 20 Atl. 352; Simons v. Bryce, 10 S. C. 373.—Equity to a settlement. The equitable right of a wife, when her husband sues in equity for the reduction of her equitable estate to his own possession, to b...
PACEATUR
Lat. Let him be freed or discharged.
Packers’ Ass’n v. Letson (C. C.) 119 Fed
611; Jensen Can-Filling Mach. Co, v. Norton, 67 r A ; Adams arta
Packt Co
0 Mo. App. 171 —Consolidation
PACTA CONVENTA
sworn and impaneled for the trial of a cause.
PACTA DANT LEGEM 868
to with a fraudulent design are in all respects to be observed. Cod. 2, 3, 39; Broom,
Pacta dant legem contractui. Hob
118. The stipulations of parties constitute the law of the contract.
PACTIO
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.”
PACTUM
Lat. Im the civil law. A pact. An agreement or convention without specific nage, and without consideration, which, however, might, in its nature, produce a civil obligation. Heinecc. Elem. lib. 3, tit. 14, § 775.
Page, 9 How
608, 13 L. Hd. 276; Prize
Paine vy. Ely, N. Chip
(Vt) 24—Judicial process. In a wide sense, this term may include al] the acts of a court from the be ginning to the end of its proceedings in a given cause; but more specifically it means the writ, summons. mandate, or...
PAINS AND PENALTIES, BILLS OF
The name given to acts of parliament.to attaint particular persons of treason or felony, or to infiict pains and penalties beyond or contrary to the common law, to serve a special purpose. They are iu fact new laws, made...
PAIRING-OFF
without any consideration for it, and therefore not enforceable—Pactum constituts pecunis. In the civil law. An agreement by which a person appointed to his creditor a certain day or a certain time at which he promised...
PAIS
question, and the relative numbers on the division aré precisely the same as if both members were present. May, Parl. Pr. 370.
PAIS, PAYS
Palace Car Co., 175 IH
125, 51 N. E. 664, 64 L. R. A. 366; First M. E. Church v. Dixon, 178 Ill. 260, 52 N. E. 887%.
PALATIUM
Lat. A palace. The emperor’s house in Rome was s0 called from the Mons Palatinus on which it was built.
PANEL. The roll or slip of
parchment returned by the sheriff in obedience to a venire facias, containing the names of -the per- . sons whom he has summoned to attend the court as jurymen. Beasiey v. People, 89 Il. 571; People v. Coyodo, 40 Cal. 59...
PANIER
the civil, but not by the common, law. Jacob.
PANIS
. PANIS. Lat. In old English law.
PARAGE
and generally all the papers and dispatches that pass through the offices of the secretaries of state, are deposited. Also an office or room in the court of queen’s bench where the records belonging to that court are d...
PARAGRAPH 871
persons holding by a noble tenure. Thus, when a fief is divided among brothers, the younger hold their part of the elder by parage; 4. 6, without any homage or service. Also the portion which a woman may obtain on her ma...
PARAPHERNALIA
PARAPHERNALIA. In the civil law. The separate property of a married woman, other than that which is included in her dowry, or doa.
PARAPHERNAUZ, BIENS
Fr. In French law. All the wife’s property which is not subject to the régime dotal is called by this name; and of these articles the wife has the entire administration; but she may allow the hushand to enjoy them, an...
PARATUM HABEO
Lat. I have him in readiness. The return by the sheriff to a capias ad respondendum, signifying that he has the defendant in readiness to be brought into court.
PARATUS EST VERIFICARE
lat. He is ready to verify. The Latin form for concluding a pleading with a vcrification, {q. v.)
PARCEL
boundaries thereof, inorder to its easy identification Parcels, hill of. An account of the items composing a parcel or package of goods, transmitted with them to the purchaser.
PARCUS. A park, (g
v.) <A pound for stray cattle. Spelman.
PARENS
Lat. In Roman law. A parent; originally and properly only the father or mother of the person spoken of; but also, by an extension of its meaning, any relative, male or female, in the line of direct ascent. Too te ee Pare...
PARENS PaTRIZ
Pater is est quem nuptis demonstrant. The father is he whom the marriage points out. 1 Bl. Comm. 446; Tate v. Penne, 7
PARES
gences, and sold them to any who would buy them.
PARESIS
Progressive general paralysis, involving or leading to the form of insanity known as “dementia paralytica.” Popularly,. but not very correctly, called “softening of the brain.” See INSANITY.
PARI CAUSA
Lat. With equal right; upon an equal footing; equivalent in rights or claims. gg.