The act of walk-ing over the boundaries of a district or piece of land, either for the purpose of determining them or of preserving evidence of them. Thus, in many parishes in England, it is the custom for the parishioners to perambulate the boundaries of the parish in rogation week in every year. Such a custom entitles them to enter any man’s land and abate nuisances in their way. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1867; Hunt, Bound. 103; Sweet See Greenville v. Mason, 57 N. H. 385
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Lat. In old English law. By view of the church; under the supervision of the church. The disposi-tion of Intestates* goods per visum eoclesiae was one of the articles confirmed to the prelates by King John’s Magna Charta. 3 Bl. Comm. 96
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L. Lat in old practice. By gage, words in the old writs of attach-ment or pone. 3 Bl. Comm. 280
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Lat. In tbe civll law. By au aggregate or whole; as an entirety. The term described the acquisition of an entire estate by one act or fact, as distinguished from the acquisition of single or detached things
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Lat By roots or stocks; by representatlon. This term, de-rived from the clvil law, is much used in the law of descents and distribution, and de-notes that method of dividing an intestate estate where a class or group of distributees take the share which their stock (a deceased ancestor) would have been entltled to, taklng thus by their rlght of representing such an-cestor, and not as so many indlvlduals; whlle other heirs, who stand in equal degree with such ancestor to the decedent, take each a share equal to hls. See Rotmauskey v. Heiss, 86 Md. 633, 39 Atl. 415
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Lat By a leap or bound; by a sudden movement; passing over certain proceedings. 8 East, 511
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Lat. By himself or itself; in itself; taken alone; inherently; in isola-tion; unconnected wlth other matters
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Lat in old pleading, whereby he lost the company [of his wife.] A phrase used in the old declarations in actions of trespass by a husband, for beating or ill using his wife, descriptive of tbe special damage he had sus-talned. 3 Bl. Comm. 140; Cro. Jac. 501, 538; Crocker v. Crocker (C. C.) 98 Fed. 703.
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Lat. In old pleading, whereby he lost the service [of his servant.] A phrase used in the old declarations in actions of trespass by a master, for beating or ill using his servant, descriptive of the speclal damage he had hlm-self sustained. 3 Bl. Comm. 142; 9 Coke, 113a; Callaghan v. Lake Hopatcong Ice Co.. 69 N. J. Law, 100, 54 Atl. 223.
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Lat. A real action by which the grantee of a seigniory could compel the tenants of the grantor to attorn to himself. It was abolished by St. 3 & 4 wm. IV. C. 27, t 35
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Lat Whereby, when the declaration in an action of tort, after stating the acts complained of, goes on to allege the consequences of tbose acts as a ground of special damage to the plaintiff, the recital of such consequences is prefaced by these words, “per quod,” whereby; and sometimes the phrase is used as the name of that clause of the declaration
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By proxy; by one acting as an agent with special powers; as under a letter of attorney. These words “give notice to all persons that the agent is acting under a special and limited authority.” 10 C. B. 689. The phrase is commonly ab-breviated to “per proc.,” or “p. p.,” and is more used in the civil law and in England than in American law
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
In old Engllsh law. By mischance. 4 Bl. Comm. 182. The same with per infortunium, (q. v
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Lat. By the law of the land; by due process of law. U. S v. Kendall, 26 Fed. Cas. 748; Appeal of Ervlne, 16 Pa. 263, 55 Am. Dec, 499; Rhlnehart v. Schuyler, 7 111. 519
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Lat. By mlsad-venture. In criminal law, homicide per infortunium is committed where a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of hurt, unfortunately kllls another. 4 Bl. Comm. 182
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Lat. By the law of England; by the curtesy. Fleta, llb. 2; c. 54, 5 18
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