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Civil law. The name of an estate which suffers or yields a service to another estate. … [Read more...] about PRAEDIUM SERVIENS

Latin: In practice. An original writ, drawn up in the alternative, commanding the defendant to do the thing required, or show the reason why he had not done it. 3 Bl. Comm. 274. Also an order, written out and signed, addressed to the clerk of a court and requesting him to issue a particular writ Praecipe In capite. When one of the king's immediate tenants in capite was … [Read more...] about PRAECIPE

civil law. By this term is understood buildings and edifices intended for the habitation and use of man, whether they be built in cities or whether they be constructed in the country. … [Read more...] about PRAEDIUM URBANUM

practice. The name of the written instructions given by an attorney or plaintiff to the clerk or prothonotary of a; court, whose duty it is to make out the writ, for the making of the same. … [Read more...] about PRAECIPE OR PRECIPE

In French law. Under the regime en communaute, when that is of the conventional kind, if the surviving husband or wife is entitled to take any portion of the common property by a paramount title and before partition thereof, this right is called by the somewhat barbarous title of the conventional "prcp-ciput," from "pro?," before, and "copcre," to take. Brown. … [Read more...] about PRAECIPUT CONVENTIONNEL