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  • PLEADINGS
    The pleadings are the formal allegations by the parties of their respective claims and defenses, for the judgment of the court. Code Civ. Proc. Cal. i 420. The individual allegations of the respective parties to an action at common law/ proceeding from them alternately, in the order and under the More...
  • PLEBANUS
    In old English ecclesiastical law. A rural dean. Cowell.
  • PLEBEIAN
    One who Is classed among the common people, as distinguished from the nobles.
  • PLEBEITY, OR PLEBITY
    The common or meaner sort of people; the plebeians.
  • PLEBEYOS
    In Spanish law. Commons ; those who exercise any trade, or who cultivate the soil. White, New Recop. h. 1, tit 5, c. 8, f 6, and note.
  • PLEBIANA
    In old records. A mother church.
  • PLEBISCITE
    In modern constitutional law, the name "plebiscite" has been given to a vote of the entire people, (that is, the aggregate of the enfranchised individuals composing a state or nation,) expressing their choice for or against a proposed law or enactment, submitted to tfcem, and which. If adopted, will work More...
  • PLEBISCITUM
    Lat. In Roman law. A law enacted by the plebs or commonalty, (that is, the citizens, with the exception of the patricians and senators,) at the request or on the proposition of a plebeian magistrate, such as a "tribune." Inst 1, 2, 4.
  • PLEBS
    Lat. In Roman law. The commonalty or citizens, exclusive of the patricians and senators. Inst 1, 2, 4.
  • PLEDABLE
    L. Fr. That may be brought or conducted; us an action or, "plea," as it was formerly called. Britt. c 32.
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