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  • DE PACE ET PLAGIS
    Of peace, (breach of peace,) and wounds. One of the kinds of criminal appeal formerly in use in England, and which lay in cases of assault wounding, and breach of the peace. Bract fol. 144; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 33.
  • DE PACE ET ROBERIA
    Of peace [breach of peace] and robbery. One of the kinds of criminal appeal formerly in use in England, and which lay in cases of robbery and breach of the peace. Bract, fol. 146; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 37.
  • DE PALABRA
    Span. By word; by parol. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit 19, c. 3, i 2.
  • DE PARCO FRACTO
    A writ or action for damages caused by a pound-breach, (q. v.) It has long been obsolete. Co. Litt 47b; 3 Bl. Comm. 146.
  • DE PARTITIONE FACIENDA
    A writ which lay to make partition of lands or tenements held by several as coparceners, tenants In common, etc. Reg. Orig. 76; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 61, R; Old Nat Brev. 142.
  • DE PERAMBULATIONE FACIENDA
    A writ which lay where there was a dispute as to the boundaries of two adjacent lordships or towns, directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take with him twelve discreet and lawful knights of his county and make the perambulation and set the bounds and limits in certainty. Fitzh. More...
  • DE PIGNORE SURREPTO FURTI, ACTIO
    In the civil law. An action to recover a pledge stolen. Inst 4, 1, 14.
  • DE PIPA VINI CARIANDA
    A writ of trespass for carrying a pipe of wine so carelessly that It was stove, and the contents lost Reg. Orig. 110. Alluded to by Sir William Jones in his remarks on the case of Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 909. Jones, Bailm. 59.
  • DE PLACITO
    Of a plea; of or In an action. Formal words used in declarations and other proceedings, as descriptive of the particular action brought
  • DE PLAGIS ET MAHEMIO
    Of wounds and mayhem. The name of a criminal appeal formerly in use in England, in cases of wounding and maiming. Bract fol. 144b; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 34. See APPEAL.
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