A seat in a church separated from all others, with a convenient space to stand therein. 2. It is an incorporeal interest in the real property. And, al...
A light-house or beacon. It is derived from Phams, a small island at the mouth of the Nile, on which was built a watch-tower. ...
One lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine. 2. A physician in England cannot recover for fees, as his practice is altogether honorary. Peake C. ...
med. jur. The science which treats of the functions of animals; it is the science of life. 2. The legal practitioner who expects to rise to eminence, ...
civil law . This word is used by Justinian in the title of the 52d novel, and signifies not only a pledge of property, but an engagement of the person...
A thief; one who in a crowd or. in other places, steals from the pockets or person of another without putting him in fear. This is generally punished ...
civ. law. A contract by which the owner of an estate engages it to another for a sum of money, and grants to him and his successors the right to enjoy...
civil law. The name given to one of the legis actiones of the Roman law. It consisted chiefly in the taking. of a pledge, and was in fact a mode of ex...
civil law. This word signifies in English, pledge or pawn. (q. v.) It is derived, says Gaius, from pugnium, the fist, because what is delivered in ple...
The taking by violence of private property by a victorious army from the citizens or subjects of the enenly. This, in modern times, is seldom allowed,...
punishment. wooden machine in which the neck of the culprit is inserted. 2. This punishment has been superseded by the adoption of the penitentiary sy...
mer. law. This word has two meanings. It signifies, first, an officer serving on board of a ship during the course of a voyage, and having the charge ...
contracts. The compensation given to a pilot for conducting a vessel in or out of port. Poth. Des Avaries, n. 147. 2. Pilotage is a lien on the ship, ...
Money allowed by a man to his wife to spend for her own personal comforts. 2. When pin money is given to, but not spent by the wife, on his death it b...
A liquid measure containing half a quart or the eighth part of a gallon. ...
Eng. laid. The name of a roll in the exchequer otherwise called the Great Roll. A measure containing two hogsheads; one hundred and twenty-six gallons...
crim. law. A robbery or forcible depreciation on the high seas, without lawful authority, done animo furandi, in the spirit and intention of universal...
torts. By piracy is understood the plagiarisms of a book, engraving or other work, for which a copyright has been taken out. 2. When a piracy has been...
A sea robber, who, to enrich himself by subtlety or open force, setteth upon merchants and others trading by sea, despoiling them of their loading, an...
pleadings. This is a technical word, essential to charge the crime of piracy in an indictment, which cannot be supplied by another word, or any circum...
The right of fishing in the waters of another. Bac. Ab. h. t.; 5 Com. Dig. 366. Vide Fishery. ...
A small Spanish coin. It is not a coin made current by the laws of the United States. 10 Pet. 618. ...
fossa. A hole dug in the earth, which was filled with water, and in which women thieves were drowned, instead of being hung. The punishment of the pit...
pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality. 2. In local actions, the plaintiff must lay his venue in the county in which the action a...
The place where a man usually transacts his affairs or business. When a man keeps a store, shop, counting room or office, independently and distinctly...
A plea. This word is nomen generalissimum, and refers to all the pleas in the case. 1 Saund. 388, n. 6; Skinn. 554; S. C. earth. 834; Yelv. 65. By pla...
The act of appropriating the ideas and language of another, and passing them for one s own. 2. When this amounts to piracy the party who has been guil...
civil law. He who fraudulently concealed a freeman or slave who belonged to another. 2. The offence itself was called plagium. 3. It differed from lar...
Man stealing, kidnapping. This offence is the crimen plagii of the Romans. Alis. Pr. Cr. Law, 280, 281. ...
Eng. law. The exhibiting of any action, real or personal, in writing; the party making his plaint is called the plaintiff. ...
practice. He who, in a personal action, seeks a remedy for an injury to his rights. Ham. on Parties, h. t.; 1 Chit. Pl. Index, h. t.; Chit. Pr. Index,...
A party who sues out a writ of error, and this whether in the court below he was plaintiff or defendant. ...
The delineation or design of a city, a house or houses, a garden, a vessel, &c. traced on paper or other substance, representing the position, and the...
Colonies, (q. v.) dependencies. (q. v.) 1 Bl. Com. 107. In England, this word, as it is used in St. 12, II. c. 18, is never applied to, any of the Bri...
A map of a piece of land, in which are marked the courses and disstances of the different lines, and the quantity of land it contains. 2. Such a plat;...
chancery practice. "A plea," says Lord Bacon, speaking of proceedings in courts of equity, "is a foreign matter to discharge or stay the suit." Ord. C...
practice. The defendant s answer by matter of fact, to the plaintiff s declaration. 2. It is distinguished from a demurrer, which opposes matter of la...
practice. The statement in a logical, and legal form, of the facts which constitute the plaintiff s cause of action, or the defendant s ground of defe...
By special pleading is meant the allegation of special or new matter, as distinguished from a direct denial of matter previously alleged on the opposi...
Eng. law. This phrase is now employed to signify criminal causes in which the king is a party. Formerly it signified royal causes for offences of a gr...
Engl. practice. A record which contains the declaration, plea, replication, rejoinder, and other pleadings, and the issue. Eunom. Dial. 2, §29, p. 111...
One who is classed among the common people, as distinguished from the nobles. Happily in this country the order of nobles does not exist. ...
One of the divisions of the people in ancient Rome; that class which was composed of those who were not nobles nor slaves. Vide Smith s Dic. Gr. & Rom...
civil law. This is an anglicised word from the Latin plebiscitum, which is composed or derived from plebs and scire, and signifies, to establish or or...
contracts. These words seem indifferently used to convey the same idea. Story on Bailm. §286. 2. In the civil code of Louisiana, however, they appear ...
contracts. He who becomes security for another, and, in this sense, every one who becomes bail for another is a pledge. 4 Inst. 180 Com. Dig. B. See P...
The same as pawner. (q. v.) ...
The same as pawnee. (q. v.) ...
pleading. It was anciently necessary to find pledges or sureties to prosecute a suit, and the names of the pledges were added at the foot of the decla...
The name of an ancient writ in the English law, which lies where a man becomes pledge or surety for another to pay a certain sum of money at a certain...
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