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
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PER ANNULUM ET BACULUM
Lat. In old English law. By ring and staff, or crozier. The symbolical mode of conferring an ecclesiastical investure. 1 Bl. Comm. 878, 379. … [Read more...] about PER ANNULUM ET BACULUM
PER INCURIAM
Latin: Through inadvertence. 35 Eng. Law & Eq. 302. … [Read more...] about PER INCURIAM
PENDENTES
civil law. The fruits of the earth not yet separated from the ground; the fruits hanging by the roots. … [Read more...] about PENDENTES
PENSIONER
One who is supported by an allowance at the will of another; a dependent. It is usually applied (in a public sense) to those who receive pensions or annuities from government, who are chiefly such as have retired from places of honor and emolument. Jacob. Persons making periodical payments are sometimes so called. Thus, resident undergraduates of the university of Cambridge, … [Read more...] about PENSIONER