Pond
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A body of stagnant water; a pool, either natural or artificial.
13 Pick. (Mass.) 265.
A pond differs from a lake only in size.
1 Starkle, Ev. 554; Best, Ev. 426, § 389; 14 Wend. (N. Y.) 105, 109.
PONDUS (Lat.) In old English law. Poundage; literally, weight. A duty anciently paid to the king. PONDUS REGIS (Lat.) In old English law. The king's weight; the standard weight appointed by the king.
Cowell; 1 Bl. Comm. 276.
PONE (Lat. power e, to put). In English practice. An original writ issuing out of chancery, for the purpose of removing a plaint from an inferior court into the superior courts at Westminster. The word signifies "put," — put by gages, etc. The writ is called from the words it contained when in Latin, Tpone per vadium et salvos plegios, etc., put by gage and safe pledges, etc.
See Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 69, 70a; Wilkinson, Repl. Index.