Multiple Poinding
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Scotch law
Double distress; a name given to an action which may be brought by a person in possession of goods claimed by different persons pretending a right thereto, calling the claimants and all others to settle their claims, so that the party who sues may be liable only "in once and single payment."
Bell, Diet.; 2 Bell, Comm. 299; Stair, Inst. 3. 1. 39.
MULTIPLEX ET INDISTINCTUM PARIT confusionem; et questlones quo simpliciores, eo lucidiores. Multiplicity and indistinctness produce confusion; the more simple questions are, the more lucid they are.
Hob. 335.
MULTIPLICATA TRANSGRESSIONE crescat poenae inflicto. The infliction of punishment should be in proportion to the increase of crime.
2 Inst. 479.
MULTIPLICITY (from Lat. multiplex, from multus, many, and p Ucare, to fold). A state of being many.
Webster.
That quality of a pleading which involves a variety of matters or particulars; undue variety.
2 Saund. 410.
A multiplying or increasing.
Story, Eq. PI. § 287.