In old Engllsh law. An estate, with the habit and quality of the land; ex-tending to a rent charge and to a possibility of dower. Co. Litt. 221b; Cowell
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one who has full power to do a thing; a person fully commissioned to act for another. A term applied in International law to ministers and en-voys of the second rank of public ministers, wheat Hist. Law Nat 266
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In the civU law. A term used to signify full proof, (that is, proof by two witnesses,) in contradistinction to semi-plena probatio, w’hich is only a pre-sumption. Cod. 4, 19, 5
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In English law. Fullness; a state of being full. A term applied to a benefice when full, or possessed by an incum-bent. The opposite state to a vacation, or vacancy. Cowell
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A forfeiture of all that one possesses
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Pledges to return the subject of distress, should the right be determined against the party bringing the action of replevin, tt Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 422n.
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A writ that anciently lay for a surety agalnst him for whom he was surety, if he paid not the money at the day. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 137
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In old English law. That may be pledged; the subject of pledge er security. Fleta, llb. 1, c. 20, 8 98
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Pledges to prosecute with effect an action of replevin
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Suretyship, or an under-taking or answering for another. Gloucester Bank v. worcester, 10 Pick. (Mass.) 53L
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The party dellverlng goods In pledge; the party pledging. Story, Bailm. | 287
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In the law of bailment. A ballment of goods to a creditor as security for some debt or engagement. A bailment br delivery of goods by a debtor to hls cred-itor, to be kept till the debt be dlscharged. Story, Bailm. | 7; Clv. Code La. art 3133,« 2 Kent, Comm. 577; Stearns v. Marsh, 4 Denlo (N. ¥.) 229, 47 Am. Dec. 248; Sheridan v. Presas, 18 Mlsc. Rep.-180, 41 N. Y. Supp. 451; Bank of Rochester v. Jones, 4 N.; Yi 507, 55 Am. Dec. 290; Eastman v. Avery, 23 Me. 250; Belden v. Perkins, 78 111. 452; wilcox v. Jackson, 7 Colo. 521; 4 Pac. 966; Glou-cester Bank v. worcester, IO Pick. ‘(Mass.)* 531; Llllenthal v. Ballou, 125 Gal.183, 5? Pac. 897
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The party to whom goods are pledged, or delivered in pledge. Story, Ballm. | 287
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Lat. In Roman law. The commonalty or citizens, exclusive of the patrl-cians nnd senators. Inst 1, 2, 4
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L. Fr. That may be brought or conducted; as an action o^ “plen,” as it was formerly called. Britt c. 32
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In modern constltutlonal law, the name “plebiscite” has been given to a vote of the entire people, (that is, the aggregate of the enfranchised Indlvlduals composlng a state or nation.) expressing thelr cholce for or against a proposed law or en-actment, submitted to them, and whlch, lf adopted, wlll work a radical change in the constltntlon. or whlch is beyond the powers of the regular leglslatlve body. The proceeding is extraordinary, and is generally revolutionary in lts character; an example of which may be seen in the plebiscites submitted to the French .people by Louis Napoleon, whereby the Second Empire wns es-tablished. But the -principle of the plebiscite has been incorporated in the modern Swlss constltutlon, (under the name of “referendum,”) by whlch a revision of the con-stltutlon must be undertaken when demand-ed by the vote of fifty thousand Swiss citl-zens. Maine, Popular Govt 40, 96
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Lat. In Roman law. A law enacted by the plcbs or commonalty, (that is, the dtizens, with the exceptlon of
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In Spanlsh law. Commons ; those who exerclse any trade, or who cultivate the soil, white, New Recop. h. 1, tit 5, c. 3, S 6, and note
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One who is classed among the common people, as distinguished from the nobles
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Y, or PLEBITY. The com-mon or meaner sort of people; the plebeians
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