In reference to the construction of a statute, this term means that sense which people conversant with the subject matter with which the statute is dealing would attribute to it 1 Exch. Div. 248. … [Read more...] about POPULAR SENSE
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POLLS
The place where electors cast in their votes. Heads; individuals; persons singly considered. A challenge to the polls (in capita) is a challenge to the individual jurors composing the panel, or an exception to one or more particular jurors. 3 Bl. Comm. 358, 361. … [Read more...] about POLLS
PONERE
Latin: To put place, lay, or set Often used in the Latin terms and phrases of the old law. … [Read more...] about PONERE
POPULISCITUM
Latin: In Roman law. A law enacted by the people; a law passed by an assembly of the Roman people, In the comitia centuriata, on the motion of a senator; differing from a plebiscitum, in that the latter was always proposed by one of the tribunes. … [Read more...] about POPULISCITUM
POLL-TAX
A capitation tax; a tax of a specific sum levied upon each person within the jurisdiction of the taxing power and within a certain class (as, all males of a certain age, etc.) without reference to his property or lack of it See Southern Ry. Co. v. St Clair County, 124 Ala. 491, 27 South. 23; Short v. State, 80 Md. 392, 31 Ati. 322, 29 L. R. A. 404; People v. Ames, 24 Colo. 422, … [Read more...] about POLL-TAX