Power over another; also danger. Bract
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Terms beginning with "P" (639 total)
POYNDING
the latter’s estate entirely and without any ‘subsequent right of redemption. See Capron v. Attleborough Bank, 11 Gray (Mass.) 493;
PP
dr. & H. (or P. & H.). Heath’s Virginia Reports.
Pr
245.—8Straw bail. Nominal or worthless bail. Irresponsible persons, or men of no property, who make a practice of going bail for any one who will pay them a fee therefor. 16. He also has similar duties under the bankr...
Pr. K. B. 1, 6, bk
2, pts. 1, 2; Strickland v. Maddox, 4 Ga. 394. The term “collateral” is also applied in England to an issue raised upon a plea of diversity of person, pleaded by a criminal who has been tried and convicted, in bar of...
Prac
221; Life Ass’n v. Boogher. 3 Mo. App. 173; Hess v. Sparks, 44 Kan. 465, 24 Pac. 979), 21 Am. St. Rep. 300; People v. Thompson. 97 (N. Y.) 501. (N. Y¥.) 420; Roberts v. Prosser, 53 N. (N. Y.) 810. (N. Y.) 458. See...
Prac. N. 8
(N. Y.) 400; Nye v. Grand Lodge, 9 Ind. App. 181, 36 N. E. 429; Ky. St. 1908, § 467.
Prac., N. 8S
(N. Y.) 23.—Limited partnership. A partnership consisting of one or more general partners, jointly and severally responsible as ordinary partners, and by whom the business is conducted, and one or more special partners...
PRADIA
PRACTITIONER. He who ts engaged in the exercise or employment of any art or profession.
PRAFATUS
Lat. Aforesaid. Some
PRAINOMEN
the offense called “preAemunire” being the infroduction of a foreign power into the kingdom, and creating imperium in imperio, by paying that obedience to papal process which constitutionally belonged to the king alo...
PRAMUNIRE
by the people, in others by the preetors.
PRASUMPTIO
Presentare nihil aliud est quam prasto dare seu offere. To present is no more than to give or offer on the spot. Co. Litt. 120.
PRASUMPTIO VIOLENTA
ly happens. Post v. Pearsall, 22 Wend. (N. Y.) 425, 475.
Pratt v. Breckinridge, 112 Ky
1, 65 S. W. 186; Parks v. State, 100 Ala. 684, 18 South. 156.
Pratt, 2 Hill (N. Y.) 582, °° ‘Am. Dee
600; Barnet v. Smith, 30 N. H. 256, 64 Am. Dec. 290; Peterson v. Hubbard, 28 Mich. 197. .
Pratt, 22 Mont
262, 56 Pac. 279; Tallman v. Tallman, 8 Misc. Rep. 465, 23 N. Y. Supp. %34.
PRAYER
AD JURA REGIS. To the rights of the king; a writ which was brought by the king’s clerk, presented to a living, against those who endeavored to eject him, to the prejudice of the king’s title. Reg. Writs, 61.
PRAZSTARE
Lat. In Roman law. “Prestare” meant to make good, and, when used in conjunction with the words “dere,” “facere,” “oportere,” denoted obligations of A personal character, as opposed to real rights.
PREAPPOINTED EVIDENCE. The
kind and degree of evidence prescribed in advance (as, by statute) as requisite for the proof of certain facts or the establishment of certain instruments. It is opposed to casual evidence, which is left to grow naturall...
PREAUDIENCE
ereign, and differing from a cedula only in form and in the mode of promulgation.
PRECARIUM
Lat. In the civil law. A convention whereby one allows another the use of a thing or the exercise of a right gratuitously till revocation. The bailee acquires thereby the lawful possession of the thing, except in certajn...
PRECEDENCE, or PRECEDENOY
The act or state of going before; adjustment of place. —Precedence, patent of. In English law. A grant from the crown to such barristers as it thinks proper to honor with that mark of distinction, whereby they are enti...
PRECEDENTS SUB SILENTIO
5Silent uniform course of practice, uninterrupted though not supported by legal de cisions. See Calton v. Bragg, 15 East, 226;
PRECEPT
the expression of a wish, but not a positive command or direction. ee —Precatory trust. <A trust created by cer tain words, which are more like words of entreaty and permission than of command or cer tainty. Examples o...
PRECLUDI NON
Lat. In pleading. The commencement of a replication to a plea in bar, by which the plaintiff “says that, by reason of anything in the said plea alleged, he ought not to be barred from having and maintaining ‘his afor...
PREDIAL SERVITUDE
PREDIAL SERVITUDE. A real or predial servitude is a charge laid on an estate for the use and utility of another estate belonging to another owner. Civil
PREFERENTIAL ASSIGNMENT. An
assignment of property for the benefit of creditors, made by an insolvent debtor, in which it 1s directed that a preference (right to be paid first in full) shall be given to a creditor or creditors therein named.
PREFERRED
5 Wis. 480. And see Doe yv. Beck, 108 Als. 71, 19 South. 802. the same kind or class. See State v. Cheraw & C. BR. Co., 16 S. C. 528.
PREGIPITIN TEST
BLOODWIT. An amercement for bloodshed. Cowell.
PRELEVEMENT
Fr. In French law. A preliminary deduction; particularly, the portion or share which one member of a firm ts entitled to fake out of the partnership assets before a division of the property is made between the partners.
PREMIER SERJEANT, THE
QUEEN’S. This officer, so constituted by letters patent, has preaudience over the bar after the attorney and svlicitor general and queen’s advocate. 3 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 274, note. :
PREMISES
mary proof. In insurance. The first proof offered of a loss occurring under the policy, usually sent in to the underwriters with notification of claim.
PREMIUM
Lat. Reward; compensation. Premium assecurationis, compensation for insurance; premium of insurance. Loce. de Jur. Mar. lib. 2, c. 5, § 6.
PREMUNIRE. See PREZEMUNIRE
_PRENDA. In Spanish law. Pledge.
PRENDER
PRENDER DE BARON. L Fr. In old English law. A taking of husband; marriage. An exception or plea which might be used to disable a woman from pursuing an appeal of murder against the killer of her former husband. Staundef....
PRENDER, PRENDRE
L. Fr. To take. The power or right of taking a thing without waiting for it to be offered. See A
PREROGATIVE
PREPONDERANCE. This word means Something more than “weight;” it denotes a superiority of weight, or outweighing. The words are not synonymous, but substantially different. There is generally a “weight” of .eviden...
PREROGATIVE CouRT, PRIZE COURT, PROBATE
Cougst, SUPERIOR Courts, SUPREME COURT, and SURROGATE’S COURT.
PRES
v. Ashenfelter, 4 N. M. 98, 12 Pac. 879; State
PRESBYTER
Lat. In civil and ec clesiastical law. An elder;a presbyter; a
PRESENCE
scription by which the ownership of property is acquired, is a right by which a mere possessor acquires the ownership of a thing, which he possesses by the continuance of his possession during the time fixed by law. The ...
PRESENT
PRESENT, v. In English ecclesiastical law. To offer a clerk to the bishop of the diocese, to be instituted. 1 Bl. Comm. 389.
PRESIDENT
A presentment is an informal statement in writing, by the grand jury, representing to the court that a public offense has been committed which is triable in the county, and that there is reasonable ground for believing t...
PRESIDENT ' 985
main direction and administration of their concerns. Roe v. Bank of Versailles, 167 Mo. 406, 67 8. W. 308.
PRESORIPTIO
PRESTIMONY, or PRZAESTIMONIA
In canon law. <A fund or revenue appropri-
PRESUMPTION
ated by the founder for the subsistence of a priest, without being erected into any title or benefice, chapel, prebend, or priory. It is not subject to the ordinary; but of it the patron, and those who have a right from ...
PRETATION
DOCUMENT. An instrument on which * js recorded, by means of letters, figures, or marks, matter which may be evidentially used. In this sense the term “document” applies to writings; to words printed, lithographed, or...
PRETENSED RIGHT, or TITLE
Where one is in possession of land, and another, who is out of possession, claims and sues for it. Here the pretensed right or title is said to be in him who so claims and sues for the same. Mod. Cas. 302. —Pretensed t...