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  • PIGNORATIO
    Lat. In the civil law. The contract of pledge; and also the obligation of such contract.
  • PIGNORATITIA ACTIO
    Lat. In the civil law. An action of pledge, or founded on a pledge, which was either directa, for the debtor, after payment of the debt or con* iraria, for the creditor. Heinecc Elem. lib, 3, tit 13, || 824-826.
  • PIGNORATIVE CONTRACT
    In the civil law. A contract of pledge, hypothecation, or mortgage of realty.
  • PIGNORIS CAPIO
    Lat In Roman law. This was the name of one of the legis oactiones. It was employed only In certain particular kinds of pecuniary cases, and consisted in that the creditor, without preliminary suit and without the co-operation of the magistrate, by reciting a prescribed formula, .took an article of More...
  • PIGNTUS
    Lat. In the civil law. A pledge or pawn; a delivery of a thing to a creditor, as security for a debt. Also a thing delivered to a creditor as security for a debt.
  • PILA
    In. old English law. That side of coined money which was called "pile," because it was the side on which there was an impression of a church built on piles. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 39.
  • PILETTUS
    In the ancient forest laws. An arrow which had a round knob a little above the head, to hinder it from going far into the mark. Cowell.
  • PILFER
    To pilfer, in the plain and popular sense, means to steal. To charge another with pilfering is to charge him with stealing, and is slander. Becket v. Sterrett, 4 Blackf. (Ind.) 499.
  • PILFERER
    One who steals petty things.
  • PILLAGE
    Plunder; the forcible taking of private property by an invading or conquering army from the enemy's subjects. American Ins. Co. v. Bryan, 26 Wend. (N. Y.) 573, 37 Am. Dec. 278.
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