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  • PER QUOD SERVITIUM AMISIT
    Lat In old pleading. Whereby he lost the service [of his servant] A phrase used in the old declarations in actions of trespass by a master, for beating or ill using his servant, descriptive of the special damage he had himself sustained. 3 Bl. Comm. 142; 9 Coke, 113a; Callaghan More...
  • PER SALTUM
    Lat By a leap or bound; by a sudden movement; passing over certain proceedings. 8 East 511.
  • PER SE
    Lat By himself or itself; in itself; taken alone; inherently; in isolation; unconnected with other matters.
  • PER STIRPES
    Lat By roots or stocks; by representation. This term, derived from the civil law, is much used in the law of descents and distribution, and denotes that method of dividing an intestate estate where a class or group of distributees take the share which their stock (a deceased ancestor) would More...
  • PER TOTAM CURIAM
    L. Lat By the whole court A common phrase in the old reports.
  • PER TOUT ET NON PER MY
    L. Fr. By the whole, and not by the moiety. Where an estate in fee is given to a man and his wife, they cannot take tbe estate by moieties, but both are seised of the entirety, per tout et non per my. 2 Bl. Comm. 182.
  • PER UNIVERSITATEM
    Lat In the civil law. By an aggregate or whole; as an entirety. The term described the acquisition of an entire estate by one act or fact, as distinguished from the acquisition of single or detached things.
  • PER VADIUM
    L. Lat In old practice. By gage. Words in the old writs of attachment or pone. 3 Bl. Comm. 280. Per vmrios actus legem eacperientia faeit. By various acts experience frames the law. 4 Inst 50.
  • PER VERBA DE FUTURO
    Lat By words of the future [tense.] A phrase applied to contracts of marriage. 1 Bl. Comm. 439; 2 Kent Comm. 87.
  • PER VERBA DE PRAESENTI
    Lat By words of the present Ltense.] A phrase applied to contracts of marriage. 1 Bl. Comm. 439.
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