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in a contract is equivalent to the word "annually." Curtiss v. Howell, 39 N. Y. 211. … [Read more...] about PER YEAR

Lat. A real action by which the grantee of a seigniory could compel the tenants of the grantor to attorn to himself. It was abolished by St 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c 27, … [Read more...] about PER QUAE SERVITIA

The act of walking over the boundaries of a district or piece of land, either for the purpose of determining them or of preserving evidence of them. Thus, in many parishes in England, It is the custom for the parishioners to perambulate the boundaries of the parish in rogation week in every year. Such a custom entitles them to enter any man's land and abate nuisances In their … [Read more...] about PERAMBULATION

To come in in the per is to claim by or through the person last entitled to an estate; as the heirs or assigns of the grantee. To come in in the post is to claim by a paramount and prior title; as the lord by escheat. … [Read more...] about PER AND POST

Latin: By fraud. Where a plea alleges matter of discharge, and the replication avers that the discharge was fraudulently obtained and is therefore Invalid, it is called a "replication per fraudem." … [Read more...] about PER FRAUDEM