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  • PER MINAS
    Lat. By threats. See DURESS.
  • PER MISADVENTURE
    In old English law. By mischance. 4 Bl. Comm. 182. The same with per infortunium, (q. v.)
  • PER MITTER LE DROIT
    L. Fr. By passing the right One of the modes by which releases at common law were said to inure was "per mitter le droit" as where a person who had been disseised released to the disseisor or his heir or feofee. In such case, by the release, the right More...
  • PER MITTER L'ESTATE
    L. Fr. By passing the estate. At common law, where two or more are seised, either by deed, devise, or descent as joint tenants or coparceners of the same estate, and one of them releases to the other, this is said to inure by way of "per mitter Vestate." Miller More...
  • PER MY ET PER TOUT
    L. Fr. By the half and by the whole. A phrase descriptive of the mode in which joint tenants hold the joint estate, the effect of which, technically considered, is that for purposes of tenure and survivorship each is the holder of the whole, but for purposes of alienation each More...
  • PER PAIS, TRIAL
    Trial by the country; i. e., by jury.
  • PER PROCURATION
    By proxy; by one acting as an agent with special powers; as under a letter of attorney. These words "give notice to all persons that the agent is acting under a special and limited authority." 10 C. B. 689. The phrase is commonly abbreviated to "per proc.f" or "p. p." More...
  • PER QUAE SERVITIA
    Lat A real action by which the grantee of a seigniory could compel the tenants of the grantor to attorn to himself. It was abolished by St 3 A 4 Wm. IV. c. 27, | 35.
  • PER QUOD
    Lat Whereby. When the declaration in an action of tort after stating the acts complained of, goes on to allege the consequences of those acts as a ground of special damage to the plaintiff, the recital of such consequences is prefaced by these words, "per quod" whereby; and sometimes the More...
  • PER QUOD CONSORTIUM AMISIT
    Lat In old pleading. Whereby he lost the company [of his wife.] A phrase used in the old declarations in actions of trespass by a husband, for beating or ill using his wife, descriptive of tbe special damage he had sustained. 3 Bl. Comm. 140; Cro. Jac. 501, 538; Crocker More...
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