A Law Dictionary and Glossary

A woman who practices indiscriminate lewdness for the purposes of gain.

The act of setting one's self up for sale; in a stricter sense, the practice by a woman of indiscriminate lewdness.

I. Protection; defense; shelter from wrong; support of right Protectio trahit subjectionem et subjectio protectionem: and sub-

In English law. A prerogative writ might privilege a defendant from all personal for a year, in respect of his being engaged in realm. In maritime law. A certificate given by a pub

In English law. Under Will. IV., c. 74, the person who, in family of the first estate of freehold prior to an estate

A declaration against an act done or to right or evade a liability; a formal declaration notary, under seal, that a bill or note was or payment which was refused, protesting loss o

I. Protesting; the emphatic word ing by way of protestation.

An oblique allegation or denial of protesting that such a matter does or does not time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial.

In American law. The chief clerks In English law. A chief clerk in the court of of Common Pleas. The office is now abolished.

The fii'st draught, or rough minutes transaction; the original copy of a despatch, ment. In old Scots law. A book delivered to a notary which to record all the instruments he had

gr.-l. In tfie civil law. A brief note a transaction for the purpose of being afterwards ten out in full.

I. Aa Prout lex postulat: as the law est: as is the custom (or practice of the court). recordum: as appears by the record; as appears

I. fr. Provable; justifiable; manifest plainly.

To establish by evidence.

v. Approver.

I. I. In old English law. To prove; to

In English law. The provincial synods; a part of the canon law of by which the king and many real suits his service out of the notary to a seaman, the statute of 3 & 4 settlements,

I. By the provision of law. Frovisioue viri: by provision of the husband.

I. Provided, — a word by which a condition might be created in a deed; a condition beginning with " provided " on the observance of which the validity of the deed depends; a clause

I. I. In old English law. A provider, or purveyor.

I. It is provided, — initial words of provisions in old statutes.

In English law. Yearly payments made by a parish priest to his bishop or archdeacon, on account of visitation.

A cause that sets another cause in operation; the efficient cause; the dominant cause.

I In the civil law. Next. Proxiraus est cui nemo antecedit; sapremus est quern nemo sequitur: he is next whom no one precedes; he is last whom no one follows.

One who represents another; one who acts for and in place of another; one who is deputed by another to vote for him, as in the election of directors of private corporations; the au

I. We command; an emphatic or initial word in most of the old Latin writs. Praecipimus tibi, sicut alias tibi praecepimus: we command you, as we have before commanded you, etc. A c

I.. In the civil law. That which is to be predetermined.

I. In old English law. Prescription. titulus ex nsu et tempore snbstaiitiam legis: prescription is a title deriving its [length of] time, under the authority of lavir. In the civil

I. I. In old English law. A payment relief and a heriot

I. I In old English law. Masters; the chief clerks in chanc Sry, formerly so called.

I. I. In old English law. Command; the act of an accessory who commands another to commit a crime.

or predial servitude. A right granted for the advantage of one piece of land over another, which may be exercised by every possessor of the land entitled, against every possessor o

I L In English law. To forewarn, or summon; the name of an offense against the king and his government, so called from the words of' the writ which issued preparatory to the prosec

I. 1. In old English law. Prothonotary, a clerk of the Common Bench. Prseposlta negotiis vel rebus domesticis, I. Set over household matters,— a term expressive of the authority of

L In old English law. One who was set over others; a chief or presiding officer. Prsepositus ecclesise: a church-reeve, or Prsepropera cousilia raro sunt prospera, I. prosperous.

I. In old English law. To pay, give execute; to perform; to make good. cunque damnum obveniens in mari: [the good any loss happening on the sea,

I. It should be presumed; the Praesumatur pro justitia sentential: the favor of the justice of a sentence.

I. By pretence, or under pretext whereof. Praetextu llciti noil debet admitti illicitum: under pretext of legality, what is illegal ought not to be admitted.

I. In old English law. A pretext; a pretence or color.

I. Jr. In old English law. Discreet men, — a torm applied to jurors.

The age of consent to marriage, — independent of statute, fourteen in males and twelve in females.

Concerning, affecting or belonging to the community at large. Public act or statute: a universal rule or law that regards the whole community. Public corporation: a corporation cre

i!. Public property; matter of public or common right

I. I. In the civil law. Pub Uc law; the law which regards the state of the commonwealth.

2. In the civU and old English law. Public.

A person who makes a thing publicly known; a person who makes a business of circulating books and the like.

2. In the eivillaw. Childhood; the age from seven to fourteen.

puys, pues, pus, puz, I fr. After; since; afterwards. Puis darrein continuance: since the last continuance; a plea which a defendant may put in, after having already pleaded, where

puisnee, pune, Z. /n In English law. Younger; later in time; the title by which the justices and barons of the several commonlaw courts are distinguished from the chief justice and

I A point; an indivisible point of time; according to the old computation, a quarter of an hour, or ten moments. Punctum temporis: a point of time; the shortest space of time; an i

sax. ' In old English law. The offense of breaking a pound; pound breach.

Liable to punishment

L In the civil law. A male ward or infant under the age of puberty; a person under the authority of a tutor, Pupillus pati posse non intelligitur: a pupil or infant is not supposed

pour, L fr. For. Pur autre vie: for another's life. Pur cause de Ticinage: by reason of neighborhood. Pur ceo que: for this that; forasmuch as; inasmuch as; considering that; becau

Purchas, pourchas, I. fr. Acquisition; acquisition of lands by conveyance*, the acquisition of property by act of a party as opposed to the act of the law, — by gift, grant or devi

A person who acquires an estate in lands by his own act or agreement.

Clear; simple; unmixed or unqualified. In old English law. Pure villeinage: villeinage where the service performed was uncertain and indeterminate.

I In the civil law. To clean, cleanse or scour, as a ditch, trench or sewer.

I. In old English law. A cleansing or scouring.

In old English law. The clearing of a person's self of a crime of which he was generally suspected, and accused before a judge. Canonical purgation was made by the party's taking h

To cleanse; to clear; to clear from some imputation,

I. fr. To violate; to defile.

I fr. Land adjoining to a forest, originally within the forest but afterward disafforested by perambulation.

perpars, I. I. In old English law. The share of an estate after partition; purparty.

purpartie. A share or portion; a share after division; the share of an estate allotted to a coparcener upon partition.

Meaning; import; substantial meaning; substance.

II. In old English law. Purpresture.

I I In old records, a close or enclosure; the whole compass of a manor.

In Scots law. Plaintiff; a plaintiff; a prosecutor.

Z. In old English law. Pure; clear; simple; free from qualification or condition; absolute, Purus idiota: a clear or absolute idiot

purveiance, I. fr. In old English law. A provision; the provision of a statute; a providing of necessaries for the king's house and at the king's price.

In old English, law. An ot Bcer who provided or bought articles for the king's use, and at the king's price.

purvieu, Z. /r. Provided, — a vpord used in the old French statutes, to introduce a chapter or distinct provision. Purview est ensement: it is provided likewise. Purview est que: i

The providing part of a statute; that part which follows the preamble, and contains the direct and express provision of the law; that part which consists of direct and express prov

The privilege of delivering personalty, as under a contract of sale, within a certain time, at a certain price; an option to sell; the opposite of call.

Reputed; supposed; commonly esteemed. (^. An abbreviation of queen, qiicere. (J. B.: Queen's Bench. (J. B. D.: Queen's Bench Division. (J. C.: Queen's counsel. Q. V.: quod vide, wh

To place in due form before a court; to place among the records of a court Put in ure: to put in practice or effect; to carry into effect Put out: to open; to put out lights; to op

qnarentine or quarentene. The period of forty days; the time during which a widow may remain in the chief house of her husband after his death, pending; assignment of dower. The ti

querel, /. fr. In old English law. A complaint or suit

I. fr. In old English law. The fourth part of a day.

I. Of whom; whereof. The word has In modern law become a substantive, used in the titles of justices of the peace, and thence as an ordinary word, to denote a certain number of per

I. Although. Quamvis aliquid per se men si sit mali exempli, non est faciendum: may not be bad in itself, yet, if it is of bad done. Qnamvis lex generaliter loquitur, est, nt, cess

I Of how much less; ' what reduction.

I I. In old English and Scots law. Qnarentine; widow's quarentine. v. Quarentine.

I. fr. To quash. Qnasse: quashed.

Inquiry; interrogation; an interrogation put to a witness; a subject of inquiry. v. Federal question; Leading question. In old English law. The rack used to extort confession from

I Whatever. mino: whatever is acquired ter; whatever rights are principal. Qnicquid est ever is against the rule of actum est, lege prohibetur: by law. Quicquid judicis snbjicitnr:

qnietantia, I. I. In old English law. A quittance, acquittance.

I. In old English law. The Cinque Ports.

quinzime, I. fr. and eng. In old English law. A fifteenth; a tax so called.

/. Of how many kinds; of how many fold.

II As; considered as; in the capacity of. tiuacunque via data, I Whichever way given; in whichever view of the case.

The third volume of the year books of Edward III., so called, because beginning with the fortieth year of the reign.

I In Scots law. The term of four years allowed to a minor, after his majority, in which to sue to annul any deed to his prejudice, granted during his minority.

L In the civil law. A pleading on the part of a defendant, following the triplicatio, and corresponding to the rebutter at common law.

statiin capientium Hunt, I Things which are taken from enemies immediately become the property of the to one object] ought not to be perverted to another; the sense of ■words charg

I. An inquiry; a question, v. Cadit questio. In the civil law. The question; the torture; inquiry or inquisition, ({uale jns, 2. In old English law. What kind of which lay where a

Fitted or prepared; restricted, limited Ued elector, or voter: a person who has a legal ified for office: prepared by the filing of a bond oath, or both. Qualified property: a temp

To make fit; to prepare for the discharge dutie."! of an ofl Sce or trust by the filing of a an oath, or both; to i-estrict, limit or modify.

L As long as; so long as; a word of veyances. Quaindiu se bene gesserit: as long himself well; during good behavior; a term tenure of office, especially of judicial offices.