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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.
  • PER ANNUM
    Lat. By the year. A phrase still in common use. Ramsdell v. Hulett, 50 Kan. 440, 31 Pac. 1092; State v. McFetrldge, 04 Wis. 130, 24 N. W. 140; Haney v. Caldwell, 35 Ark. 168.
  • PER AUTRE VIE
    L. Fr. For or during.another's life; for such period as another person shall live.
  • PER AVERSIONEM
    Lat. In the civil law. By turning away. A term applied to that kind of sale where the goods are taken in bulk, and .not by weight or measure, and for a single price; or where a piece of land is sold as containing in gross, by estimation, a certain More...
  • PER BOUCHE
    L. Fr. By the mouth; orally. 3 How. State Tr. 1024.
  • PER CAPITA
    Lat. By the heads or polls; according to tbe number of individuals; share and share alike. This term, derived from the civil law, is much used In the law of descent and distribution, and denotes that method of dividing an intestate estate by which an equal share is given to More...
  • PER CENT
    An abbreviation of the Latin "per centum," meaning by the hundred, or so many parts in the hundred, or so many hundredths. See Blakeslee v. Mansfield, 66 111. App. 119; Code Va. 1887, f 5 (Code 1904, p. 7.)
  • PER CONSEQUENS
    Lat. By consequence; consequently. Yearb. M. 9 Edw. III.
  • PER CONSIDERATIONEM CURIAE
    Lat. In old practice. By the consideration (Judgment) of the court. Yearb. M. 1 Edw. II. 2.
  • PER CURIAM
    Lat. By the court. A phrase used in the reports to distinguish an opinion of the whole court from an opinion written by any one judge. Sometimes it de. notes an opinion written by the chief jus-, tlce or presiding judge. See Clarke v. Western Assur. Co., 146 Pa. 561, More...
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