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  • PERFECTING BAIL
    Certain qualifications of a property character being required of persons who tender themselves as bail, when such persons have justified, i. e., established their sufficiency by satisfying the court that they possess the requisite qualifications, a rule or order of court is made for their allowance, and the ball is More...
  • PERFIDY
    The act of one who has engaged his faith to do a thing, and does not do it, but does the contrary. Wolff, Inst 390.
  • PERFORM
    To perform an obligation or contract is to execute, fulfill, or accomplish it according to its terms. This may consist either in action on the part of the person bound by the contract or in omission to act according to the nature of the subject-matter; but the term is usually More...
  • PERFORMANCE
    The fulfillment or accomplishment of a promise, contract, or other obligation according to Its terms. -Part performance. T%e doing same portion, yet not the whole, of what either party to a contract has agreed to do. Borrow v. Borrow, 34 Wash. 684, 76 Pac. 305.-Speeino performance. Performance of a contract More...
  • PERGAMENUM
    In old practice Parchment In pergamcno sciibi fecit. 1 And. 54.
  • PERICARDITIS
    In/ medical jurisprudence. An inflammation of the lining membrane of the heart
  • PERICOSOUS
    Lat Dangerous; perilous. Perlenlosnm est res novas et fansita-tas indneere. Co. Litt 379a. It is perilous to introduce new and untried things. Perlenlosnm ealstimo qnod bonorunr virorum non oomprobatur exemplo. o 9 Coke, 97b. I consider that dangerous which is not approved by the example of good men.
  • PERICULUM
    Lat In the civil law. Peril; danger; hazard; risk. Perioulnm rei venditae, nondum tra-ditss, est emptoris. The risk of a thing sold, and not yet delivered, is the purchaser's. 2 Kent Comm. 498, 499.
  • PERIL
    The risk, hazard, or contingency insured against by a policy of insurance. -Perils of the lakes. As applied to navigation of the Great Lakes, this term has the same meaning as "perils of the sea." See infra.- Perils of tne sea. In maritime and insurance law. Natural accidents peculiar to More...
  • PERINDE VALERE
    A dispensation granted to a clerk, who, being defective in capacity for a benefice or other ecclesiastical function, is de facto admitted to it. Cowell.
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