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  • PER VISUM ECCLESIAE
    Lat. In old English law. By view of the church; under the supervision of the church. The disposition of intestates' goods per visum ecclesics was one of the articles confirmed to the prelates by King John's Magna Charta. 8 Bl. Comm. 96.
  • PER VIVAM VOCEM
    Lat In old English law. By the living voice; the same with viva voce. Bract fol. 95.
  • PER YEAR
    in a contract is equivalent to the word "annually." Curtiss v. Howell, 39 N. Y. 211.
  • PERAMBULATION
    The act of walking over the boundaries of a district or piece of land, either for the purpose of determining them or of preserving evidence of them. Thus, in many parishes in England, It is the custom for the parishioners to perambulate the boundaries of the parish in rogation week More...
  • PERAMBULATIONE FACIENDA, WRIT DE
    In English law. The name of a writ which is sued by consent of both parties when they are in doubt as to the bounds of their respective estates. It is directed to the sheriff to make perambulation, and to set the bounds and limits between them in certainty. Fitzh. More...
  • PERCA
    A perch of land; sixteen and one-half feet. See PERCH.
  • PERCEPTION
    Taking into possession. Thus, perception of crops or of profits is reducing them to possession.
  • PERCEPTURA
    In old records. A wear; a place in a river made up with banks, dams, etc., for the better convenience of preserving and taking fish. Cowell.
  • PERCH
    A measure of land containing five yards and a half, or sixteen feet and a half in length; otherwise called a "rod" or "pole." Cowell. As a unit of solid measure, a perch of masonry or stone or brick work contains, according te some authorities and in some localities, sixteen More...
  • 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.
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