pleadings. This is a technical word, essential to charge the crime of piracy in an indictment, which cannot be supplied by another word, or any circumlocution. … [Read more...] about PIRATLCALLY
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PIGNORATITIA ACTIO
Lat. In the civil law. An action of pledge, or founded on a pledge, which was either directa, for the debtor, after payment of the debt, or con traria, for the creditor. Heinecc. Elem. lib. 3, tit. 13, … [Read more...] about PIGNORATITIA ACTIO
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A very signular and odious kind of tenure mentioned by old writers. "Wilhelmus Hoppeshort tenet dimidiam virgatam terrae per seritiium custodiendi sex damisellas, scil. Meretrices ad usum domini regis." Wharton. … [Read more...] about PIMP-TENURE
PISCARY
The right or privilege of fishing. Thus, common of piscary is the right of fishing in waters belonging to another person. … [Read more...] about PISCARY
PIGNORATIVE CONTRACT
civ. law. A contract by which the owner of an estate engages it to another for a sum of money, and grants to him and his successors the right to enjoy it, until he shall be reimbursed, voluntarily, that sum of money. In the civil law. A contract of pledge, hypothecation, or mortgage of realty. … [Read more...] about PIGNORATIVE CONTRACT