Petty

Small; inferior. A word framed from the Fr. petit, and sometimes used indiscriminately with it. PETTY AVERAGE (called, also, "customary average"). Several petty charges which are borne partly by the ship and partly by the cargo, such as the expense of tonnage, beaconage, etc. Abb. Shipp. (7th Ed.) 404; 2 Pars. Mar. Law, 312; 1 Bell, Comm. 567; 2 Magens, 277. See "Average."

Small, minor, of less or inconsiderable importance, he English form of "petit," and sometimes used instead of that word in such compounds as "petty jury," "petty larceny," and "petty treason." See Pettit.

— Petty bag office. In English law. An office in the court of chancery, for suits against attorneys and officers of the court, and for process and proceedings by extent on statutes, recognizances, ad quod damnum, and the like. Termes de la Ley.

— Petty officers. Inferior officers in the naval service, of various ranks and kinds, corresponding to the non-commissioned officers in the army. See U. S. v. Fuller, 160 U. S. 593,16 Sup. Ct. 386, 40 L. Ed. 549. As to petty "Average," "Constable," and "Sessions," see those titles.

Small; inferior. Petty ments as, according to custom, the benefit of the ship and In English lata. Petty bag law side of the court of matters. Petty constable: and parishes, as distinguished dred.

See Petit.

V. Petit. Petty average: v. ofl Sce: an office on the common-law side cery whence issued writs in Crown matters, officers of the court; v. Eanaper. It the Cursitors. Petty sessions: a court held by one or more justices of the peace. Peu,/r. Pew; a little. A peu prfes:

See Petit. Photographer. Any person who makes for sale photographs, ambrotypes, daguerrotypes, or pictures, by the action of light. Act of congress of July 13, 1866, § 9, 14 i Stat. at L. 120 PIEPOUDRE; PIED POUDRE. Literally, dusty foot. The term is said to have been applied, in old English times, to itinerant traders. Piepoudre court — that is, the pedestrian's or pedler's court — was a kind of court held in old English markets, for the convenience of the itinerant traders. The title is often Anglicized in form into pie-powder; but piepoudre is the preferable spelling. The court was so called, either from the dusty feet of the suitors, or because justice is there done as speedily as dust can fall from the foot; or from pied puldreaux, the old French name for a pedler, or petty chapman. It was a court of record, formerly incident to who owned or had the toll of the market was the judge: the jurisdiction extended to all matters of contract or commercial injuries arising in that very fair or market, and not in any preceding one. The injury must be done, complained of, heard and determined, within the compass of one and the same day, unless the fair continued longer. A writ of error would lie to the courts at Westminster. See Cowel; Wharton.