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
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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
POURSUIVANT
The king's messenger; a royal or state messenger. In the heralds college, a functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties, called also "poursuivant at arms." … [Read more...] about POURSUIVANT
POYNINGS LAW
(Poyning's Law) Engl. law. The name usually given to an act which was passed by a parliament holden in Ireland in the tenth of Henry the Seventh; it enacts that all statutes made in the realm of England before that time should be in force and put in use in the realm of Ireland. … [Read more...] about POYNINGS LAW
POTENTIA
Latin: Possibility; power. Potentia propinqua. Common possibility. See Possibility. Potentia debet sequi justitiam, non antecedere. 3 Bulst 199. Power ought to follow justice, not go before it Potentia est duplex, remota et propin qua; et potentia remotissima et vana est quae nunquam venit in actum. 11 Coke, 51. Possibility is of two kinds, remote and near; that which never … [Read more...] about POTENTIA