P

A real or predial servitude is a charge laid on an estate for the use and utility of another estate belonging to another owner. Civil Code La. art 647. See PRAEDIAL SERVITUDE. … [Read more...] about PREDIAL SERVITUDE

In English ecclesiastical law. A right of the crown to name to the first prebend that becomes vacant after the accession of the sovereign, in every church of the empire. This right was exercised by the crown of England in the reign of Edward I. 2 Steph. Comm. 670, note. … [Read more...] about PRECES PRIMARIAE

The district for which a high or petty constable is appointed, is in England, called a precinct. Willc. Office of Const. xii. 2. In day time all persons are bound to recognize a constable acting within his own precincts; after night the constable is required to make himself known, and it is, indeed, proper he should do so at all times. Ibid. n. 265, p. 93. A constable's or … [Read more...] about PRECINCT

Another form of the name of the written instructions to the clerk of court; also spelled "precipe" (g. v.) … [Read more...] about PRECIPE

Precipitins are formations in the blood of an animal induced by repeated injections into its veins of the blood-serum of an animal of another species; and their importance in diagnosis lies in the fact that when the blood-serum of an animal so treated is mixed with that of any animal of the second species (or a closely related species) and the mixture kept at a temperature of … [Read more...] about PRECIPITIN TEST