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A full and complete confession. … [Read more...] about PLENARY CONFESSION

A quantity of land "not of any certain content, but as much as a plow can, by course of husbandry, plow in a year." Co. Litt. 69. … [Read more...] about PLOW-LAND

Latin: Completely; fully; sufficiently. Plene administravit. In practice. A plea by an executor or administrator that he has fully administered all the assets that have come to his hands, and that no assets remain out of which the plaintiff's claim could be satisfied. Plene administravit prater. In practice. A plea by an executor or administrator that he has "fully … [Read more...] about PLENE

The Monday after twelfth-day. … [Read more...] about PLOW-MONDAY

pleading. A plea in bar entered by an executor or administrator by which he affirms that he had not in his possession at the time of the commencement of the suit, nor has had at any time since any goods of the deceased to be administered; when the plaintiff replies that the defendant had goods, in his possession at that time, and the parties join issue, the burden of the proof … [Read more...] about PLENE ADMINISTRAVIT