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PRESTATION

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In old English law. A payment or performance; the rendering of a service. … [Read more...]

PRET A USAGE

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Loan for use. This phrase is used in the French law instead of commodatum. … [Read more...]

PRESTATION-MONEY

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A sum of money paid by archdeacons yearly to their bishop; also purveyance. Cowell. … [Read more...]

PRETEND

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To feign or simulate; to hold that out as real which is false or baseless. Brown v. Perez (Tex. Civ. App.) 25 S. Wl 083; Powell v. Yeazel, 46 Neb. 225, 64 N. W. 695. As to the rule against the buying and selling of "any pretended right or title," see PRETENSED RIGHT OR TITLE. … [Read more...]

PRESTIMONY OR PRAESTIMONIA

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In canon law. A fund or revenue appropriated by the founder for the subsistence of a priest, without being erected into any title or benefice, chapel, prebend, or priory. It is not subject to the ordinary; but of It the patron, and those who have a right from him, are the collators. Wharton. … [Read more...]

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