Lat. In the civil law. Pen-al; Imposing a penalty; claiming or en-forcing a penalty. Actiones poenales, penal actions. Inst 4, 6, 12
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Gat In the civil law. Repentance; reconsideration; changing one’s
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This word is used as au adjective in several compound legal phrases, carrying a meaning suggestive of, or aualogous to, its signification as a pouch, bag, or secret receptacle. For these phrases, see “Bor-ough,” “Judgment,” “Record,” “Sheriff,” and “Veto.”
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In English criminal iaw. The unlawful entry upon land for the pur-pose of takiug or destroying game; the tak-ing or destruction ot game upon another’s land, usually committed at night. Steph. Crim. Law 119, et seq.; 2 Steph. Comm. 82
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In Spanish law. A colonizer ; he who peoples; the founder of a col-ony
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An old abbreviation for the words “ponit loco suo,” (puts In his place,) used in warrants of attorney. Townsh. Pl. 431
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Lat. In Scotch practice. A demand of more than is due. Beil
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In Roman law. A phrase denoting the offense of claiming more thau was just In one’s pleadings. Thlfc mord might be claimed in four different respects; viz.: (1) Re, i. e., in amount, (e. g., £50 for £5;) (2) loco, i. e.. In place, (e. g., delivery at some place more difficult to efTect than the place specified;) (3) tempore, i. e., in time; (e. g., claiming payment on the 1st of Au-gust of what is not due till the 1st of September;) and (4) causa, i. e., in quality* (e. g., claiming a dozen of champagne, when tiie con-tract was only for a dozen of wine generally.) Prior to Justinian’s time, this offense was in general fatal to the action; but, under the legislation of the emperors Zeno and Justln-lan, the offense (if re, loco, or causa) exposed the party to the payment of three times the damage, if any, sustained by the other side, and (if tempore) obliged him to postpone his action for double the time, and to pay the costs of his first action before commencing a second. Brown
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In the law of elections. The excess of the votes cast for one candl-date over those cast for any other, where there are only two candidates, be who receives the greater number of the votes cast is sald to have a majority; when there are more than two competitors for the same office, the person who receives the greatest number of votes has a plurality, but he has not a majorlty unless he receives a greater
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Lat often; frequently, when an original and alias writ have been issued and proved ineffectual, a third writ, called a “pluries writ,” may frequently.be issued. It is to the same effect as the two former, except that it contains the words, “as we have often commanded you,” (“stout plurtos pracepimus”) after the usual com-mencement, “we command you.” 8 Bl. Comm. 283; Archb. Pr. 585.
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Containing more than one; consisting of or designating two or more, webster
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Lat. In the civU law. Lead. Dig. 50, 16, 242, 2
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In maritime law. The embezzlement of goods on board of a ship is so called
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Money formerly paid by some tenants, in lieu of service to plow the lord’s lands
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Lat. in the civU law. Soldering. Dig. 6,1,23, 5
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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
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The anclent payment of a penny to the church from every plow-land. 1 Mon. Angl. 256
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An allowance of wood whlch tenants are entltled to, for repairing their plows and other implements of bus-bandry
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A kind of earnest nsed in public sales at Amsterdam, wharton
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A term used in appraising land values and particularly in emlnent domain proceedings, to designate the addltlon* al value glven to city lots by the fact that they are contiguous, whlch enables the owner to utilize them as large blocks of land. See In re Armory Board, 73 App. Dlv. 152, 76
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In Spanish law. The plead-lngs in a cause, whlte, New Recop. b. 8, tlt 7
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