PRZETEXTUS
Lat. A pretext; a pretense or color. Pretertu cujus, by pretense, or under pretext whereof. 1 Ld. Raym. 412.
Terms beginning with "P" (639 total)
PRZFECTUS URSBI
Lat. In Roman law. The name of an officer who, from the time of Augustus, had the superintendence of the city and its police, with jurisdiction extending one hundred miles from the city, and power to decide both civil an...
PRZNOMEN
Lat. Forename, or first mame. The first of the three names by which the Romans were commonly distinguished. It marked the individual, and was commonly written with one letter; as “A.” for “Au-
PRZTERITIO
Lat. A passing over or omission. Used in the Roman law to describe the act of a testator in excluding a given heir from the inheritance by silently passing him by, that is, neither instituting nor formally disinheriting ...
PSYCHOTHERAPY
MEDICINE-CHEST. A box containing an assortment of medicines, required by stat-
PTOMAINES
In ecclesiastical law. <A person who is appointed to manage another man’s affairs in the ecclesiastical courts; a proctor.
Pub. St. Mass
1882, p. 1288. 1882, p. 1291. p. 1295. 1882, p. 1295.
PUBCHASE
WORK AND LABOR. The name of one af the common counts in actions of assumpstt, being for work and labor done and materlals furnished by the plaintiff for the defendant.
PUBERTY 964
curring in putrefying fish and the tyrotoxicons of decomposing miik and milk products.
Public Schools, 11 Mo
265; Vasquez v. Bwing, 42 Mo. 256.
Public, 1
3, tit. 5. See Bork v. People, 91 N. Y. 16.
PUBLICATION
arpa & a pace devoted solely to the uses of the public, but a place which is in point of fact public rather than private, a place visited by many persons and usually accessible to the public. See State v. Welch, 88 Ind. ...
PUBLICI JURIS
Lat. Of public right. This term, as ‘applied to a thing or right, means that it is open to or exercisable by all persons.
PUBLICUM JUS
Lat. In the civil law. Public law; that law which regards the state of the commonwealth. Inst. 1, 1, 4.
PUBLIOANUS
Lat. In Roman law. A farmer of the customs; a publican. Calvin.
PUER
Lat. In the civil law. A child; one of the age from seven to fourteen, including, in this sense, a girl. But it also Meant a “boy,” as distinguished from a “girl;” or a servant.
PUERITIA
Lat. In the civil law. Childhood; the age from seven to fourteen. 4 Bl. Comm. 22.
PUFFER
PUBLICIANA. In the civil law. The name of an action introduced by the prsetor Publicius, the object of which was to recover a thing which had been lost. Its effects were similar to those of our action of trover.
PUISNE
L. Fr. Younger; subordinate; associate.
PUISSANCE PATERNELLE
Fr. Paternal power. In the French law, the male parent has the following rights over the person of his child: (1) If child is under sixteen years of age, he may procure him to be imprisoned for one month or under. (2) If...
Pullens, 81 Mo
392; Com. v. Wright, l
PULSARE
Lat. In the civil law. To beat; to accuse or charge; to proceed against at law. Calvin.
PUNCTUM TEMPORIS
Lat. A point of time; an indivisible perlod of time; the shortest space of time; an instant. Calvin.
PUPILLARIS SUBSTITUTIO
Lat. In the civi: law. Pupillar substitution; the substitution of an heir to a pupil or infant under puberty. The substitution by a father of an heir to his children under his power, disposing of his own estate and their...
PUPILLUS
Lat. In the civil law. A ward or infant under the age of puberty; a person under the authority of a tutor, (c. v.)
PUPILLUS PATI POSSE
PUNDIT. An interpreter of the Hindu law; a learned Brahmin.
PUR. IL
Fr. Byor for. Used both asa separable particle, and in the composition of such words as “purparty,” “purlieu.”
Purcell, 25 Ohio St
229; Philadelphia Library Co. v. Donohugh, 12 Phila. (Pa.) 284: Stuart v. Easton, 74 Bed. 854, 21 C. G. A. 146;
PURGE DES HYPOTHEQUES
Fr. In French law. An expression used to describe the act of freeing an estate from the mortgages and privileges with which it is charged, observing the formalities prescribed by law. Duverger.
Purner v. Piercy, 40 Md
223, 17 Am. Rep. 591; Smock v. Smock, 37 Mo. App. 64.— Fructus naturales. Those products which are produced by the powers of nature alone; as wool, metals, milk, the young of animals.
PURPART
PURE. Absolute; complete; simple; unmixed; unqualified; free from conditions or restrictions; as in the phrases pure charity, pure debt, pure obligation, pure plea, pure villenage, as to which see the nouns.
PURPORT
party ;” but it is now used in relation to any _kind of partition proceedings. See Seiders v.
PURPRISE. IL
Fr, A close or inclosure; as also the whole compass of a manor.
PURTENANT
APPLICABLE. When a constitution or court declares that the common law is in force in a particular state so far as it is applicable, it Is meant that it must be applicable to the habits and conditions of the community, as...
PURUS IDIOTA
Lat. A congenital idiot.
PURVEYANCE. In
old English law. A providing of necessaries for the king’s house. Cowell. a
PUTATIVE
PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. As used in constitutional law, this right includes personal freedom, freedom of contract, exemption from oppression or invidious discrimination, the right to follow one’s individual preference in ...
PUTS AND CALLS
PUTS AND CALLS. A “put” in the language of the grain or stock market is a privilege of ‘delivering or not delivering the subject-matter of the sale; and a “call” is a privilege of calling or not calling for it.
PYROMANIA
times by bailiffs of hundreds, to take man’s meat, horse’s meat, and dog’s meat of the tenants and inhabitants within the perambulation of the forest, hundred, etc. The land subject to this custom was called “ter...