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  • PESA
    A weight of two hundred and fifty-six pounds. Cowell.
  • PESAGE
    In England. A toll charged for weighing avoirdupois goods other than wool. 2 Chit. Com. Law, 16.
  • PESQUISIDOR
    In Spanish law. Coroner. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 1, f 3.
  • PESSIMI EXEMPLI
    Lat Of the worst example.
  • PESSONA
    Mast of oaks, etc., or money taken for mast, or feeding hogs. Cowell.
  • PESSURABLE WARES
    Merchandise which takes up a good deal of room In a ship. Cowell.
  • PETENS
    Lat. In old English law. A, demandant; the plaintiff in a real action. Bract, fols. 102, 1066.
  • PETER-PENCE
    An ancient levy or tax of a penny on each house throughout England, paid to the pope. It was called "Peter-pence,' ' because collected on the day of St. Peter, ad vincula; by the Saxons it was called "Rome-feoh," "Rome-scot," and "Rome-pennying," because collected and sent to Rome; and, lastly, More...
  • PETIT
    Fr. Small; minor, inconsiderable. Used in several compounds, and sometimes written "petty." -Petit cape. A judicial writ, issued in the old actions for the recovery of land, requiring the sheriff to take possession of the estate, where the tenant, after ha vine appeared in answer to the summons, made default More...
  • PETITE ASSIZE
    Used in contradistinction from the grand assize, which was a jury to decide on questions of property. Petits assize, a jury to decide on questions of possession. Britt. c. 42; Glan. lib. 2, cc. 6, 7.
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