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Pleading the fifth amendment, the right against self-incrimination. … [Read more...] about PLEADING THE FIFTH

contracts. Sir William Jones defines a pledge to be a bailment of goods by a debtor to his creditor, to be kept till the debt is discharged. Kent follows the same definition and defines it to be a contract by which a debtor gives to his creditor a thing to detain as security for his debt. 4. The foregoing definitions are sufficiently descriptive of the nature of a pawn or … [Read more...] about PLEDGE OR PAWN

The pleadings are the formal allegations by the parties of their respective claims and defenses, for the judgment of the court. Code Civ. Proc. Cal. S 420. The Individual allegations of the respective parties to an action at common law, proceeding from them alternately, in the order and under the distinctive names following: The plaintiff's declaration, the defendant's plea, … [Read more...] about PLEADINGS

One who receives a pledge. A pawnee. … [Read more...] about PLEDGEE

Eng. law. This phrase is now employed to signify criminal causes in which the king is a party. Formerly it signified royal causes for offences of a greater magnitude than mere misdemeanors. These were left to be tried in the courts of the barons, whereas the greater offences, or royal causes, were to be tried in the king's courts, under the appellation of pleas of the crown. … [Read more...] about PLEAS OF THE CROWN