Percolating Waters

Flowing, seeping, or moving subterraneous waters. contempt in not yielding obedience to the process of the king's courts, is outlawed, and afterwards, of his own accord, surrenders. PERDUELLIO (Lat.)

In civil law. At first, an honorable enmity to the republic; afterwards, a traitorous enmity of a citizen; consisting in being of a hostile disposition towards the republic, e. g., treason aiming at the supreme power, violating the privileges of a Roman citizen by beating him, etc., attempting anything against the person of the emperor, and, in general, any open hostility to the republic. Sometimes used for the enemy or traitor himself. Perduellio was distinguished from crimen imminutae majestatis, as being an attempt against the whole republic, punishable in comitia centuriata, by crucifixion and by infamy after death. Calv. Lex.; Vicat. PERDURABLE (old Fr. perdurable, eternal, from Lat. per, intensive, and durabilis, lasting). As applied to an estate, perdurable signifies lasting long or forever. Thus, a disseisor or tenant in fee upon condition has as high and great an estate as the rightful owner or tenant in fee simple absolute, but not so perdurable. The terin is chiefly used with reference to the extinguishment of rights by unity of seisin, which does not take place unless both the right and the land out of which it issues are held for equally high and perdurable estates. Co. Litt. 313a, 313b; Gale, Easem. 582. PEREGRIN I (Lat.)

In civil law. Under the denomination of peregrini were comprehended all who did not enjoy any capacity of the law, namely, slaves, alien enemies, and such foreigners as belonged to nations with which the Romans had not established relations. Savigny, Dr. Rom. § 66. PEREMPTORIUS (Lat. from perimere, to destroy).

In civil law. That which takes away or destroys forever; hence, exceptio peremptoria, a plea which is a perpetual bar. See "Peremptory." Bracton, lib. 4, c. 20; Fleta, lib. 6, c. 36, § 3; Calv. Lex.

All subsurface flowage not in defined and known channels. See 67 Am. St. Rep. 669, note.

See Water.

Defined under Percolate in Black's Law Dictionary.