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  • PERCOLATE
    , as used in the cases relating to the right of land-owners to use water on their premises, designates any flow-age of sub-surface water other than that of a running stream, open, visible, clearly to be traced. Mosier v. Caldwell, 7 Nev. 363. -Percolating waters. See WATER.
  • PERDONATIO UTLAGARIAE
    L. Lat. A pardon for a man who, for contempt in not yielding obedience to the process of a court, is outlawed, and afterwards of his own accord surrenders. Reg. Orig. 28.
  • PERDUELLIO
    Lat In Roman law. Hostility or enmity towards the Roman republic; traitorous conduct on the part of a citizen, subversive of the authority of the laws or tending to overthrow the government Calvin; Vicat
  • PERDURABLE
    As applied to an estate, perdurable signifles lasting long or forever. Thus, a disseisor or tenant in fee upon condition has as high and great an estate as the rightful owner or tenant in fee-simple absolute, but not so perdurable. The term is chiefly used with reference to the extinguishment More...
  • PEREGRINI
    Lat In Roman law. The class of peregrini embraced at the same time both those who had no capacity in law, (capacity for rights or Jural relations,) namely, the slaves, and the members of those nations which had not established amicable relations with the Roman people. Sav. Dr. Rom. | More...
  • PEREMPT
    In ecclesiastical procedure an appeal is said to be perempted when the appellant has by his own act waived or barred his right of appeal; as where he partially complies with or acquiesces in the sentence of the court Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1275.
  • PEREMPTION
    A nonsuit; also a quashing or killing.
  • PEREMPTORIUS
    Lat. In the civil law. That which takes away or destroys forever; hence, exceptio peremptoria, a plea which is a perpetual bar. Calvin.
  • PEREMPTORY
    Imperative; absolute; not admitting of question, delay, or reconsideration. Positive; final; decisive; not admitting of any alternative. Self-determined; arbitrary; not requiring any cause to be shown. -Peremptory day. A day assigned for trial or hearing in court, absolutely and without further opportunity for postponement.-Peremptory exception. In tbe civil law. Any More...
  • PERFECT
    Complete; finished; executed; enforceable. -Perfect condition. In a statement of the rule that, when two claims exist in "perfect condition" between two persons, either may insist on a set-on*, this term means that state of a demand when it is of right demandable by its terms. Taylor v. New York, More...
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