Those incident to primary powers, given by a principal to his agent. For example, the general authority given to collect, receive and pay debts due by or to the principal is a primary power. In order to accomplish this it is frequently required to settle accounts, adjust disputed claims, resist those which are unjust, and answer and defend suits; these subordinate powers are … [Read more...] about POWERS MEDIATE
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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