Precipe

Command. ]. An original writ in the alternative, commanding the defendant to do the thing required or to show cause why he has not done it. Abridged from prcecipe quod reddat, command that he return. The writ issued where something ' People V. Brown, 3 Utah, 465 (1879)i •■'Wdoters v. International, &o.

R. Co., 54 Tex. 300 (1881). » Farmers', &c.

Bank v. Smith, 8 S. & R. 69 (1817). * Hubbell V. Mo Culloch, 47 Barb. 394 (1860). » [Butler V. Young, 1 Hip. 279 (1872), Sherman, J.; Bowlies V. Brier, 87 Ind. 395 (1882). "Payson v. Minors, L. R., 7 Q. B. D. 333 (1881), Lush, certain was demanded, incumbelit upon the defendant to perf oi-m. ' 3. A paper containing the particulars of a writ, for the instruction of the ofl Scer who is to issue it. Spelled also precipe. See Precept. PR-ffilMIUM. L. Profit; consideration; price. " Premium " (g. v.) is the Anglicized word.

Prsemium pudieitisB

Price of chastity. Compensation for illicit iutercour,se. Sometimes termed prsemium pudoris, pay for shame, or disgrace. •An agreement, or security given, for future illicit intercourse, is incapable of Confirmation, or enforcement.'

PR.a!MUNIRE.

L. A corruption of prce-moneri, to fore-warn. The offense, affecting the king and his government, of maintaining the papal power — of introducing a foreign power into the realm, and creating imperium in imperio, by paying that obedience to papal process which belongs to the king alone.3 Statutes of this name were meant to repress the civil power of the pope. Prcemunire [facias), originally the emphatic word in the writ for prosecuting the offense, became the name of the writ and of the offense itself.' The same penalties were subsequently applied to other offenses.