The benefit of clergy, (g. v.) Privilegium est beneficium personale, et extinguitur cum persona. 3 Bulst. 8. A privilege is a personal benefit, and dies with the person. Privilegium est quasi privata lex. 2 Bulst. 189. Privilege is, as it were, a private law. Privilegium non valet contra rempub licam. Privilege is of no force against the commonwealth. Even necessity does not … [Read more...] about PRIVILEGIUM CLERICALE
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PRO BONO PUBLICO
For the public good; for the welfare of the whole. … [Read more...] about PRO BONO PUBLICO
PRIVILEGIUM, PROPERTY PROPTER
A qualified property in animals feres natura; i.e., a privilege of hunting, taking, and killing them, in exclusion of others. 2 Bl. Comm. 394 ; 2 Steph. Comm. 9. … [Read more...] about PRIVILEGIUM, PROPERTY PROPTER
PRO CONFESSO
chan. pract. For confessed. 2. When the defendant has been served personally with a subpoena, or when not being so served has appeared, and afterwards neglects to answer the matter contained in the bill, it shall be taken pro confesso, as if the matter were confessed by the defendant. … [Read more...] about PRO CONFESSO
PRIVITY
The term "privity" means mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property. The executor is in privity with the testator, the heir with the ancestor, the assignee with the assignor, the donee with the donor, and the lessee with the lessor. Union Nat. Bank v. International Bank, 123 I1L 510, 14 N. E. 859; Hunt v. Haven, 52 N. H. 169; Mygatt v. Coe, 124 N. Y. 212, … [Read more...] about PRIVITY