A Law Dictionary and Glossary

1. 1 In old English law. That may be pledged; the subject of pledge or security.

/. I. In old English law. Suretyship.

I. I. In old English law. To pledge; to undertake; to become responsible for.

pleggius, l. Lat. In old English law. A pledge. Plegii ad prosequendum, or de prosequendo: pledges to prosecute. Plegii de retorno habendo: sureties for a return in replevin. Plegi

plegios ad standnm recto, or plegios de stando ad rectum, I. Security to appear and answer to an accusation.

I. fr. In old English law. Full age.

pleinment, I. fr. In old English law. Fully. Pleinement administre: fully administered.

I. I Fully., '

In English law. Fjalness; a state of being full; applied to a benefice when full, or possessed by an incumbent.

Full; complete; without abridgment. /

I. I. He has fully administered; a plea by an executor or administrator, that he has fully administered all the assets that have come to his hands. Plene adrainistravit prseter: he

One who has full power to do a thing, a person fully commissioned to act for another, — applied, in international law, to ministers and envoys of the second rank of public minister

/. Full. In old English law..Plenum rectum: full right; formal words in old writs, particularly writs of right In the civil law. Plenum dominium: full ownership; the property in a

I I. In old English law. Pledge; security.

I fr. Pledged; under pledge.

L fr. In old English law. To complain.

I fr. In old English law. A plaint or complaint

I fr. In old English law. Plaintiff; a plaintiff; a complaining party.

In old English law. The habit and quality of a thing, or an estate or right therein.

I. In Scots law. A demand of more than is due.

I. In the civil law. Management his direction, and in his behalf; agency.

An allowance of wood made to a tenant, for repairing ^ his ploughs and other instruments of husbandry.

In old English law. A quantity of land allotted for thework of one plough; a carucate or carve of land.

To take from person or place by open force; to take without right

Containing or designating more than one; consisting of two or more. Pluralis numerus est duobus contentus: the plural number is contained in two. Plures eandem rem in solidum possi

I. Oftentimes; many times; frequently; the emphatic word of a clause in the Latin form of a writ issued after a first and second of the same kind had been issued without effect; th

Lat. More. Plus peccat author quam actor: the originator or instigator of a crime is a worse offender than the actual perpetrator of it. Plus valet unus oculatus testis quam auriti

I. In the civil law. To beat, without giving pain; to accuse or charge; to proceed against at law.

A clandestine encroachment upon and appropriation of a neighbor's land.

1. 1 In old English law. Fornication on the part of a woman.

In English law. The unlawful entry on land, for the purpose of taking or destroying game; the taking or destruction of game on another's land.

In English law. A sheriff appointed by the crown,, without the usual form of nomination by the judges of the exchequer.

2. Punishment; a penalty; also, it would seem, damages. Poena ex delicto defuncti h^eres teneri non debet: the heir ought not to be bound by a penalty arising out of the wrongful a

I. In the civil enforcing a penalty,

poynding. tion, or by way of

poynt, pointe, I. statute. Points de

fr. hi French policy of insurance; ment: a bill of lading.

Public polity piness; regulations particularly in a those regulations. eral, jurisdiction of trate: a magistrate of a conservator or of a state to make education, and good

A system of prosperity of a state of insurance, by the

Relating to immediately connected superior, nor with rights in the formation

To single out, separately each juror

A head; an levied by the head

Cut or shaved dentation; anciently meaning, v. Deed

gr.-l. In pluriuni simnl marriage of several

The marrying or husbands at the Poena corporalis: corporal punishment Poena punishment Poena pilloralis: punishment Punishment; a penalty. law. Penal; imposing a penalty; claiming

non nnmerantur, I. Witnesses are weighed, not counted; that is, they are estimated by the weight or importance of their testimony, and not by their number.

I In English laio. Put; the name of a writ by which the proceedings in an action in the county court may be removed into one of the superior courts. Pone per vadium et salvos pleg'

L In old English law. To put; to put upon; to lay, to impose or assess; to put to, to compel; to introduce one's person; to submit to, as to a jury; to place under liability; to pl

I Puts in his place. Ponit se inde in Deo et magna assisa: put himself thereof on God and on the grand assize. Ponit se super lingnas vestras: rests his fate upon your words. Ponit

In old English law. A tax towards the maintenance or repair of bridges; a toll for passing a bridge.

The stake played for in a game of cards; a combination of commodities, interests or earnings for the mutual advantage of the persons combining, and the disadvantage, possibly, of o

I. I. In Roman law. An enactment, law or ordinance made by the populus, or whole Roman people; an ordinance made by the comitia centuriata.

Relating or belonging to, or obtaining among, the people. Popular action: an action for a statutory penalty or forfeiture, given to any person who will sue for it; an action given

I. In the Roman law. The people; the whole body of the citizens, including, with the plehs or commonalty, the patricians and senators.

I. L In old European law. Proscription; banishment.

Forein, forrein, I, ticular territory, district another jurisdiction; made, done or transacted tion; operating without, trinsic or irrelevant; tor: an administrator country or anot

A place for the importation and exportation of goods and merchandise; a place for the Jading and unlading of vessels, and the ing. Port of destination: in a time policy, may mean a

I. I. In old English law. To bear; to bring. Portare assisam: to bring an assise.

I. In the civil law. Tp be carried.

I. I. In old English law. Port-duties.

I. Monstrosities in law; unheard-of positions.

portuons, portuis, o. sc. In old Scots law. A roll or catalogue containing the names of indicted persons, delivered to the coroner, to be attached and arrested by him.

Z./r. To bear; to bring. Port action: brought action. Porter date: to bear data Porter foy: to bear faith, an expression in the old oath of fealty. Porter record: to bear record.

portreeve. In old English law. The chief officer of a port; the chief officer of a town or city, especially a sea-port town.

In Scots law. The proprietor of a small feu or portion of land.

sax. In old English law. A court held in ports or haven towns, and sometimes also in inland towns.

11 In old European law. A tax or toll levied at the gates of cities for the reparation of roads; a tax levied at ports; a port duty.

LI In Scots law. Porteous; the porteous or porteous roll.

Law ordained and enforced by sovereign political authority, as distinguished from the law of nature.

1. 1. Of positive law.

1 1. Put; suppose. Posito uno oppositorum, negator alteram: one of two opposite positions being affirmed, the other is denied.

L I. In old English law. Fosse-work; the service of laboring, for the repair' and maintenance of the ditches

I, To be able; to be possible; possibility; ability; power; a force; a number of persons summoned to assist a sheriff in the execution of process. Posse comitatus: the power or for

1. In old English law. Possession; seisin; the detention of a corporeal thing by intent and act, aided by some support of right. Possessio fratris: possession of a brother, the kin

The state of power, or under one's and constructive when V. Adverse possession.

One who possesses

Relating to plating or claiming ing possession, or the recover possession; an In Scots law. Possessory person in uninterrupted til the question of right

/. In old sibilitas post dissolutionem a possibility will never cution.

An uncertain on a contingency. pectation which the bare possibility, as that ing. Possibility of upon condition. gency, as in the limitation ticular nama

1. To possess, — in possessioa

I. I. In old English of entry.

I. After; afterwards. Post diem: after the signed. Post litem dispute moved; after has arisen. Post mortem: tions anciently taken commonly applied to Post obitum: after the brother

An after-act; an act done afterwards, v. Post-factum.

In old English law. A disseisin committed after a recovery of seisin of the same land and by the same person against whom the recovery was had. v. Depost disseisina.

In old English law. A coming after, or being behind; the correlative of priority.

Descendants; those who come after.

or postfactum, I. An after-act; an act done afterwards.

In old English law. A fine or sum of money. Otherwise called the king's silver; formerly due on granting the licentia concordandi.

I. A right which arises from a return in limen, that is, to the borders of one's country, — a term derived from the Roman law, and extensively used in public law. In the civil law.

A child born after the death of its father.

In English law. The senior barrister at the bar of the court of exchequer, who had the privilege of moving there before the king's attorney and solicitor-general and all king's cou

or postnatus, I. After born; a second son, so called, as distinguished from the eldest; born after a particular period or event.

I. In the Roman law. The demand of an action; the request made to the prsetor by an actor, for an action, or formula of suit.

A note payable at a future day, as distinguished from a note payable on demand.

A settlement made after marriage upon a wife or children.

A bond given by an expectant heir, to become due on the death of a person from whom he will have property. Such bonds are discouraged by the courts.

A highway over which mails may lawfully be transported, whether by land or by water.

A post-road over which mails are carried by contract.

I. In the Roman law. To ask or demand; to ask of a judicial tribunal; to accuse or denounca

Z. In old English law. A possibility; power. Potentia power is to no purpose. Potentia propinqaa: possibility. Potentia remotissima: a most possibility. Potest quis renniiciare pro