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A small Spanish coin. It is not a coin made current by the laws of the United States. 10 Pet. 618. … [Read more...] about PISTAREEN

Lat. In Roman law. This was the name of one of the legis actiones. It was employed only in certain particular kinds of pecuniary cases, and consisted in that the creditor, without preliminary suit and without the co operation of the magistrate, by reciting a prescribed formula, took an article of property from the debtor to be treated as a pledge or security. The proceeding … [Read more...] about PIGNORIS CAPIO

Tn old English law. Buffer ; the king's butler, whose office it was to select out of the cargo of every vessel laden with wine, one cask at the prow and another at the stern, for the king's use. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 22. … [Read more...] about PINCERNA

In old Scotch law. An excavation or cavity in the earth in which women who were under sentence of death were drowned. … [Read more...] about PIT

Lat. In the civil law. A pledge or pawn; a delivery of a thing to a creditor, as security for a debt. Also a thing delivered to a creditor as security for a debt. … [Read more...] about PIGNTUS