A foreign coin of base metal, prohibited by St. 27 Edw. I. c. 3, from being brought into the realm, on pain of forfeiture of life and goods. 4 Bl. Comm. 98. It was computed at two pollards for a sterling or penny. Dyer, 82b. … [Read more...] about POLLARDS
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POENITENTIA
Latin: In the civil law. Repentance; reconsideration; changing one's mind; drawing back from an agreement already made, or rescinding it Locus poenitentiae. Room or place for re-pentence or reconsideration; an opportunity to withdraw from a negotiation before finally concluding the contract or agreement. Also, in criminal law, an opportunity afforded by the circumstances to a … [Read more...] about POENITENTIA
POLICY
The general principles by which a government is guided in its management of public affairs, or the legislature in its measures. welfare or prosperity of the state or community. Policy of a statute. The "policy of a statute," or "of the legislature," as applied to a penal or prohibitive statute, means the intention of discouraging conduct of a mischievous tendency. See L E. 6 P. … [Read more...] about POLICY
POLLENGERS
Trees which have been lopped; distinguished from timber-trees. Plowd 649 … [Read more...] about POLLENGERS
POINDING
The process of the law of Scotland which answers to the distress of the English law. Poinding is of three kinds: Real poinding or poinding of the ground. This is the action by which a creditor, having a security on the land of his debtor, is enabled to appropriate the rents of the land, and the goods of the debtor or his tenants found thereon, to the satisfaction of the debt … [Read more...] about POINDING