In English practice. An obsolete writ to the sheriff to summon the defendant to appear and answer the plaintifTs suit, on his putting in sureties to prosecute. It was so called from the words of the writ, “pone per vadium ct salvos plegios,” “put by gage and safe pledges, A. B,, the defendant.”
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A body of stagnant water without an outlet, larger than a puddle and smaller than a lake; or a like body of water with a small outlet, webster. And see Rockland water Co. v. Camden & R. water Co., 80 Me. 544, 15 Atl. 785, 1 L. R. A. 388; Concord Mfg. Co. v. Robertson, 66 N. H. 1, 25 Atl. 718, 18 L. R. A. 679
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In old English law. Poundage; i. e., a duty paid to the crown according to the weight of merchandise
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A term sometimes used to denote a government of many or several; a government where the sovereignty is shared by several persons; a collegiate or divided executive
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The civll conditlon of havlng more husbands than one to the snme woman; a social order permitting plurality of husbands
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In criminal law. The offense of having several wives or husbands at the same time, or more than one wife or hus-band at the same time. 3 Inst. 88. And see Reynolds v. U. S., 98 U. S. 145. 25 L. Ed. 244
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To poll a jury is to require that each juror shall himself declare what is his verdlct
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In the civll law. An offer not yet accepted by the person to whom it is made. Langd. Cont 8 1* See McCul-loch v. Eagle Ins. Co., 1 Pick. (Mass.) 283
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In Hindu law. The head of a village or district; also a military chieftain in the peninsula, answering to a hill zemindar in the northern drears. wharton
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A foreign coin of base met-al, prohibited by St. 27 Edw. I. c. 3, from being brought into the realm, on pain of for-feiture of life and goods. 4 Bl. Comm. 98. It was computed at two pollards for a sterling or penny. Dyer, 82b
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Trees which have been lopped; distlngulshed from timber-trees. Plowd. 649
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A tax ordained hy act of parliament, (18 Car. II. c. 1.) by whlch every subject in the klngdom was assessed by the head or. poll, according to his degree. Cowell. A similar personal tribute was more anciently termed “poll-silver.”
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A capitation tax; a tax of a specific snm levied upon each person with
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The science of government; the art or practice of administering public affairs
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A mercantile instrument in writing, by which one party, in consideration of a premium, engages to lndemnify another against a contingent loss, by making bim a payment in compensation, whenever the event shall happen by which the loss is to accrue. 2 Steph. Comm. 172
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Pertaining or relating to the policy or the adminlstratlon of govern-ment, state or national. See People v. Mor-gan, 90 IU. 558; In re Kemp, 16 wis. 396
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Police is the function of that branch of the administrative machinery of government which is charged wlth the pres-ervatton of public order and tranquillity, the promotion of the public health, safety, and morals, and the preventlon, detection, and punishment of crlmes. See State v. Hine. 59 Conn. 50, 21 Atl. 1024, 10 L. R. A. 83; Monet v. Jones, 10 Smedes & M. (Miss.) 247; Peo-ple v. Squire, 107 N. Y. 593, 14 N. E. 820, 1 Am. SL Rep. 893; Logan v. State, 5 Tex. App. 314
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The general prlnclples by •which a government is guided in Its management of publlc affairs, or the legislature in Its measures
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In medical Jurisprudence. A substance having an inherent deleterious property which renders it, when taken into the system, capable of destroying life. 2 whart. & S. Med. Jur. | L
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A measure of length, equal to five yards aud a half
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The process of the law of Scotland which answers to the distress of the English law. Poinding is of three kinds
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A distinct proposition or quee-tion of law arising or propounded in a case
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