Civil law. The name of an estate which suffers or yields a service to another estate. … [Read more...] about PRAEDIUM SERVIENS
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POURPARTY
To make pourparty is to divide and sever the lands that fall to parceners, which, before partition,' they held jointly and pro indiviso. Cowell. … [Read more...] about POURPARTY
POYNDING
See POINDING. … [Read more...] about POYNDING
POURPRESTURE
An inclosure. Anything done to the nuisance or hurt of the public demesnes, or the highways, etc., by inclosure or building, endeavoring to make that private which ought to be public. The difference between a pourpresture and a public nuisance is that pourpresture is an invasion of the jus privatum of the crown; but where the jus publicum is violated it is a nuisance. Skene … [Read more...] about POURPRESTURE
POYNINGS’ ACT
An act of parliament, made in Ireland, (10 Hen. VII. c. 22, A. D. 1495;) so called because Sir Edward Poynings was lieutenant there when it was made, whereby all general statutes before then made In England were declared of force in Ireland, which, before that time, they were hot 1 Broom & H. Comm. 112. … [Read more...] about POYNINGS’ ACT