Law Dictionary

practice. The plaintiff has not found pledge. The return made by the sheriff to a writ directed to him with this clause, namely, si A facerit B securum de clamore suo guishes robbe

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

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

Of full age. PLENA ET CELERIS JUSTITIA FIAT partibus. Let full and speedy justice be done to the parties. 4 Inst. 67.

4 Inst. 67. Let full and speedy justice be done to the parties.

Let full and speedy justice be done to the parties.

Full faith.

A forfeiture of all that one possesses.

In civil law. A term used to signify full proof, in contradistinction to semi-plena probatio, which is only a presumption. Code, 4. 19. 5. et seq.; ' 1 Greenl. Ev. § 119. ^

Fully.

In ecclesiastical law. Signifies that a benefice is full. See "Avoidance."

Full; complete. In the courts of admiralty, and in the English ecclesiastical courts, causes or suits in respect of the different course of proceedings in each are termed "plenary"

A full and complete confession. An admission or confesssion, whether in civil or criminal law, is said to be "plenary" when it is, if believed, conclusive against the person making

Lat. In old English law. Full age.

Lat. Completely; fully; sufficiently. —Plene administravit. In practice. A plea by an executor or administrator that he has fully administered all the assets that have come to his

He has fully administered, a plea of an executor or administrator that he has no assets of the estate. See 93 U. S. 41, 23 L. Ed. 795.

He has no assets, excepting. See Plene administravit .

In practice. A plea by an executor or administrator that he has "fnily administered" ali the assets that have come to his hands, "except" assets to a certnin amount, which are not

He has fully accounted.

Possessing full powers; as, a minister plenipotentiary is one authorized fully to settle the matters connected with his mission, subject, however, to the ratification of the govern

/. 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

Full ownership.

Full right.

plena, I. Pull. good credit (full faith). jure: with perfect right. travit (he has fully administrator that he has in his hands; plene excepting a specified the plaintiff's demand.

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

Security; the liability of a surety.

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 Spanish law. The pleadings in a cause. White, New Recop. bk. 3, tit. 7.

An old English word, used sometimes for the estate with the habit and quality of the land. Co. Litt. 221. It extends to a rent charge, and to a possibility of dower. Id.; 1 Rolle,

A contraction of placitum. Pl'ito, of pladto. 1 Inst. CI. 11.

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

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

A kind of earnest used in public sales at Amsterdam. Wharton.

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

The very plot is an act in itself. But an act, which, in itself, is merely a voluntary muscular contraction, derives all its character from the consequences which will follow it un

A term used in appraising land values and particularly in eminent domain proccedings, to designate the additional value given to city loin by the fact that they are contiguous, whi

The ancient payment of a penny to the church from every ploughland. 1 Mon. Aug. 250.

An allowance made to a rural tenant of wood sufi Bcient for ploughs, harrows, carts, and other instruments of husbandry.

In old English law. An uncertain quantity of land. According to some opinions, it contains one hundred and twenty acres. Co. Litt. 69a.

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

Money paid by tenants in composition of a duty to plough. PLUMBATURA (Lat. from plumbum, lead). In the civil law. Soldering. Dig. 6. 1. 23. 5. PLUMBUM (Lat.) In the civil law. Lead

The ancient payment of a penny to the church from every plow-land. 1 Mon. Angl. 256.

Estovers consisting of the timber necessary in making or repairing all instruments, tools, or implements used in husbandry. See 64 Am. Dec. 368, note.

A quantity of land "not of any certain content, but as much as a plow can, by course of husbandry, plow in a year." Co. Litt 69a.

An ancient customary descent in equal shares to the sons, varied by larger shares to the oldest or youngest son.

The Monday after twelfth-day.

Money formerly paid by some tenants, in lleu of service to plow the lord's lands.

The term “plug-in electric drive vehicle” means a vehicle that— (A) draws motive power from a battery with a capacity of at least 4 kilowatt-hours; (B) can be recharged from an ext

Lat In the civll law. Soldering. Dig. 6, 1, 23, 5.

Lead.

The term “plums” means both European and Japanese type, whether or not they have been in storage, but does not mean Italian-type prunes, nor damson-type plums.

The capture of personal property on land by a public enemy, with a view of making it his own. The property so captured is called "plunder." The taking by open force, as by pirates.

In maritime law. The embezzlement of goods on board of a ship is known by the name of "plunderage." The rule of the maritime law in such because there must be some negligence in fi

Words Implying the plural may be construed to include the singular: the greater includes the less. 1 Iowa, 282; 60 Mich. 462; 54 Mich. 245. PLURALIS NUMERUS EST DUOBUS contentus. T

The plural number is contained in two.

One that holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice, with cure of souls.

In the plural; plurally.

The greatest number of votes given for any one person. Plurality has the meaning, as used in governmental law, given above. Thus, if there are three candidates, for whom four hundr

A polygamous marriage.

Several coheirs are one body, as it were, because they have unity of right.

Co.. Litt. 163. Several co-heirs are, as it were, one body, by reason of the unity of right which they possess.

Co. Litt 164. Several parceners are as one body, in that they have one right.

Several partners are one body, as it were, in this, that they have one right.

A writ issued after an alias writ has been issued.

A demand for too much.

More.

pluis, fr. More, most. Au pluis: at the most. Plus tost: rather; sooner. Plus tost que: rather than, as well as.

Examples harm more than offenses.

The author sins more than the doer.

In Roman law. A phrase denoting the offense of claiming more than was jus^ in one's pleadings. This "more" might be claimed in four different respects, viz.: (1) Re, i. e., in amou

Custom is stronger than grant.

One eye-witness is worth more than ten ear-witnesses.

Eyes see more than one eye. 4 Inst. 160.

Post-meridian, afternoon; postmaster.

The term “PM–10” means particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to a nominal ten micrometers, as measured by such method as the Administrator may determin

Lat. Punishment; a penalty. Inst 4, 6, 18, 19. —Pœna corporalis. Corporal punishment — Poena pilloralis. In old English law. Punishment of the pillory. Fleta, lib. 1, a 38, § LL

If punishment be indicted on a few, a dread comes to alL

The heir ought not to be bound by a penalty arising out of the wrongful act of the deceased. 2 Inst 198.

Lat In the civil law. Penal; imposing a penalty; claiming or enforcing a penalty. Actiones poenales, penal actions. Inst 4, 6, 12.

Punishment cannot be, crime will be, perpetual. 21 Vin. Abr. 27L

3 Inst. 220. Punishments shonid rather be seftened than aggravated.

Punishment ought to bind the guilty, and not others. Bract, fol. 380b.

This term is commonly used as a designation of those things which are publici juris, (a. v.,) and therefore considered as being owned by "the public," the entire state or community

This term includes every contention by force, between two nations, in external matters, under the authority of their respective governments. Prize Cases, 2 Black, 666, 17 L. Ed. 45

a chronic dust disease of the lung and its sequelae, including respiratory and pulmonary impairments, arising out of coal mine employment.

Lat In the civil law. Repentance; reconsideration; changing one's mind; drawing back from an agreement already made, or rescinding it. —Locus poenitentiae. Room or place for re-pen

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

One which is entirely gratuitous, and which dispenses its benefits without any charge or pecuniary return whatever. See In re Keech's Estate (Sun-.) 7 N. Y. Supp. 33i; In re Lenox'

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

Punishments shonid be restrained. Jenk. Cont. 29.

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

Io. suo. Ponit loco suo, which see.

Postoffice.

To steal game on a man's land.

Trespassing at night to kill game.

In Spanish law. A colonizer; he who peoples; the founder of a colony.

This word is used as an adjective in several compound legal phrases, carrying a meaning suggestive ot or analogous to, its signification as a pouch, bag or secret receptacle. For t