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Lat. In the civil law. Pen-al; Imposing a penalty; claiming or en-forcing a penalty. Actiones poenales, penal actions. Inst 4, 6, 12 […]

Gat In the civil law. Repentance; reconsideration; changing one’s Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

This word is used as au adjective in several compound legal phrases, carrying a meaning suggestive of, or aualogous to, its signification […]

LaL Punishment; a penalty. Inst 4, 6, 18, 19 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In English criminal iaw. The unlawful entry upon land for the pur-pose of takiug or destroying game; the tak-ing or destruction ot […]

In Spanish law. A colonizer ; he who peoples; the founder of a col-ony Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An old abbreviation for the words “ponit loco suo,” (puts In his place,) used in warrants of attorney. Townsh. Pl. 431 Source: […]

To steal game on a man’s land Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In Scotch practice. A demand of more than is due. Beil Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Roman law. A phrase denoting the offense of claiming more thau was just In one’s pleadings. Thlfc mord might be claimed […]

In the law of elections. The excess of the votes cast for one candl-date over those cast for any other, where there […]

Lat often; frequently, when an original and alias writ have been issued and proved ineffectual, a third writ, called a “pluries writ,” […]

Containing more than one; consisting of or designating two or more, webster Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the plural. 10 East, 158, arg Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In the civU law. Lead. Dig. 50, 16, 242, 2 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In maritime law. The embezzlement of goods on board of a ship is so called Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Money formerly paid by some tenants, in lieu of service to plow the lord’s lands Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. in the civU law. Soldering. Dig. 6,1,23, 5 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A quantity of land “not of any certain content, but as much as a plow can, by course of husbandry, plow in […]

The Monday after twelfth-day Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The anclent payment of a penny to the church from every plow-land. 1 Mon. Angl. 256 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

An allowance of wood whlch tenants are entltled to, for repairing their plows and other implements of bus-bandry Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

A kind of earnest nsed in public sales at Amsterdam, wharton Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A term used in appraising land values and particularly in emlnent domain proceedings, to designate the addltlon* al value glven to city […]

In Spanish law. The plead-lngs in a cause, whlte, New Recop. b. 8, tlt 7 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)