People v. Bolanger, 71 Cal
17, 11 Pac. 800.— Feigned action. In practice. An action brought on a pretended right, when the plaintiff has no true cause of action, for some illegal purpose. In a feigned action the words of the writ are true. It di...
Terms beginning with "P" (639 total)
People v. Borgetto, 90 Mich
336, 58:N. W. 328: Darry v. People, 10 N. Y. 120; Allen v.
People v. Braman, 30 Mich
460; Castle v. Houston, 19 Kan. 426, 27 Am. Rep. 127;
People v. Daniels, 6 Utah, 288, 22 Pac
159, 5 L. R. A. 444; Snow v. U. S., 18 Wall. 317, 21 L. Ed. 784.
People v. Ferry, 84 Cal
31, 24 Pac. 33: Wilson v. White, 133 Ind. 614, 33 N. E. 361, 19 L. R. A. 581; Johnson v. Johnson, 32 Ala. 687; Germania F. Ins. Co. v. Stewart, 18 Ind.
People v. Fuhrig, 127 Cal
412. 59 Pac. 693; orate v. Parham, 48 La. Ann. 1309, 20 South.
People v. James, 100 Mich
522, 59 N. W. 236; Harvey v. State, 65 Ga. 570; People
People v. Jones, 54 Barb
(N. ¥.) 316; Cromwell v. Stephens, 2 Daly (N. Y.) 19.
People v. Marin County, 103 Cal
223, 37 Dac. 208, 26 L. R. A. 639.
People v. McAdams, 82 Ill
861; McKim v. Odom, 3 Bland (Md.) 418; Rundle v. Canal
People v. Mullings, 83 Cal
138, 23 Pac. 229, 17 Am. St. Rep. 223.—Inculpatory evidence. Criminative evidence; that which tends, or is intended, to establish the guilt of the accused. —Indispensable evidence. That without which a particular fac...
People v. Pool, Cal
578; White v. State, 70 Miss. 253, 11 South. 682.—Fresh suit. In old English law. Immediate and unremitting pursuit of an escaping thief. “Such a present and earnest following of a robber as never ceases from the tim...
People v. Salsbury, 1384 Mich
537, 96 N. W. a ao v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 58 S.
People v. Smith, 112 Mich
192, 70 N. W. 466, 67 Am. St. Rep. 892; State v. Nevins, 28 Vt. §21. ' It is further a designation of the person to whom a Dill of exchange or negottable promissory note is to be pald.
People v. Sneir
77 N. ¥. 150; Woods v. Ayres, 39 Mich. 350, 338 Am. Rep. 396; Bliss v. Hoyt, 70 ee 534, 41 Atl. 1026; Keener, Quasi notr. 3.
People v. Swafford
65 Cal. 223, 3 Pac. 809. -—Speedy trial. See that title —-Separate trial. ee SEPARATE.—State t - See STATE.—Trial at bar. A species of trial now seldom resorted to, excepting in cases where the matter in dispute ...
People v. Wright, 70 Ill
399. As to temporary insanity, see INSANITY.
People v.: Muller, 96 N. Y. 408, 48 Am. Rep
635. —Publie indecency. This phrase has no fixed legal meaning, is vague and indefinite. and cannot, in itself, imply a definite offense. The courts, by a kind of judicial legislation, in England and the United States,...
People y. Brooklyn, 9 Barb
(N. Y.) 546.— Things real. Such things as are permanent fixed,'-and immovable, which cannot be carried out of their place; as lands and tenements.
People, 158 Ill
156, 38 N. E. 652. “Criminal conversation” means seduction of another man’s wife, considered ps an actionable in-
People, 185 Ill
552, 57 N. B. 441; Latshaw v.
People, 194 Ill
108, 62 N. B. 546, 88 Am. St.
People, 23 Colo
33, 46 Pac. 112, 938. LR. A. 58 Am. St. Rep. 215.—Legal cruelty. Such as will warrant the granting of a divorce to the injured party; as distinguished from such kinds or degrees of cruelty as do not, under the statutes...
People, 26 Ill
344: Whiskey Cases, 99 1’. S. 599, 25 L. Ed. 389; State v. Graham, 41 N. 175.
People, 4 Ill
395; McMakin v. McMakin, 68
People, 4 Ill. App
515; Donaldson. v. Wood, 22 Wend. (N. Y¥.) 400; Gerner v. Mosher, 58
People, 6 Johns
(N. Y.) 404.—Statute of accumulations. In English law. The statute 39 & 40 Geo. III. c. 98, forbidding the accumulation, beyond a certain period, of property settled by deed or will.—Statute of egiance de facto. An a...
People, 65 Ill
65, 16 Am. Rep. 569.
PER
Lat. By. When a writ of entry is sued out against the alfenee of the original intryder or disseisor, or ugainst his heir to whom the land has descended, it is said to be brought “in the per,” because the writ then st...
PER ALLUVIONEM
Lat. In the civil Jaw. By alluvion, or the gradual and imperceptible increase arising from deposit by water.
PER AND CUI
a state or nation who are invested with political power for political purposes, that
PER ANNULUM ET BACULUM
lL. Lat. In old English law. By ring and staff, or crozier. The symbolical mode of conferring an ecclesiastical investure. 1 Bl. Comm. 878, 379.
PER ANNUM
Lat. By the year. A phrase still in common use. Ramsdell v.
PER AUTRE VIE
L. Fr. For or during another’s life; for such period as another person shall live.
PER AVERSIONEM
Lat. In the civil law. By turning away. A term applied to that kind of sale where the goods are taken in bulk. and not by weight or measure, and for a single price; or where a plece of land is sold as containing in gross...
PER BOUCHE
L. Fr. By the mouth: orally. 3 How. State Tr. 1024.
PER CAPITA
Lat. By the heads or polis; according to the number of individuals; share and share alike. This term, derived from the civil law, is much used in the law of descent and distribution, and denotes that method of dividing a...
PER CONSEQUENS
Lat. By consequence; consequently. Yearb. M. 9 Edw.
PER CONSIDERATIONEM COURIZ
Lat. In old practice. By the consideration (judgment) of the court. Yearb. M. 1 Edw.
PER CURIAM
Lat. By the court. A phrase used in the reports to distinguish an opinion of the whole court from an opinion written by any one judge. Sometimes it deo notes an opinion written by the chief justice or presiding judge. Se...
PER FORMAM DONI
L. Lat. In Eng: lish law. By the form of the gift; by the designation of the giver, and not by the operation of Jaw. 2 Bl. Comm. 113, 191.
PER FRAUDEM
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 fraudem.”
PER INCURIAM
Lat. Through inadvertence. 35 Eng. Law & Eq. 302.
PER INDUSTRIAM HOMINIS
Lat. In old English law. By human industry. A term applied to the reclaiming or taming of wild animals by art, industry, and education. 2 Bl. Comm. 391.
PER INFORTUNIUM
Lat. By misadventure. In criminal law, homicide per infortenium is committed where a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of hurt, unfortunately kills another. 4 Bl. Comm. 182,
PER LEGEM ANGLIZ
Lat. By the law of England; by the curtesy. Fileta, lib. 2; c. 54, § 18.
PER LEGEM TERRZ
Lat. By the law of the land; by due process of law.
PER METAS ET BUNDAS
L. Lat. In old English law. By metes and bounds.
PER MITTER L’ESTATE
L. Fr. By passing the estate. At common law, where two or more ure seised, either by deed, devise, or descent, as joint tenants or coparceners of the same estate, and one of them releases to the other, this is said to in...
PER MITTER LE DROIT
L. Fr. By passing the right. One of the modes by which releases at common law were said to inure was “per miticr le droit,” as where a person who had been disseised released to the disseisor or his heir or feofee. In...