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  • PLENARTY
    In English law. Fullness; a state of being full. A term applied to a benefice When full, or possessed by an incumbent. The opposite state to a vacation, or vacancy. Cowell.
  • PLENARY
    Full; entire; complete; unabridged. In the ecclesiastical courts, (and in admiralty practice,) causes are divided into plenary and summary. The former are those in whose proceedings the order and solemnity of the law is required to be exactly observed, so that if there is the least departure from that order, More...
  • PLENE
    Lat Completely; fully; sufficiently. -Plene administravit. In practice. A plea by an executor or administrator that he has fully administered all the assets that have come to his hands, and that no assets remain out of which the plaintiff's claim could be satisfied.- Plene administravit prater. In practice. A plea More...
  • PLENIPOTENTIARY
    One who has full power to do a thing; a person fully commissioned to act for another. A term applied in international law to ministers and envoys of the second rank of public ministers. Wheat Hist Law Nat 266.
  • PLENUM DOMINIUM
    Lat In the civil law. Full ownership; the property in a thing united with the usufruct Calvin.
  • PLEYTO
    In Spanish law. The pleadings in a cause. White, New Recop. b. 8, tit 7.
  • PLIGHT
    In old English law. An estate, with the habit and quality of the land; extending to a rent charge and to a possibility of dower. Co. Litt. 221b; Cowell.
  • PLOK-PENNIN
    A kind of earnest used In public sales at Amsterdam. Wharton.
  • PLOTTAGE
    A term used in appraising land values and particularly in eminent domain proceedings, to designate the additional value given to city lots by the fact that they are contiguous, which enables the owner to utilize them as large blocks of land. See In re Armory Board, 73 App. Div. 152, More...
  • PLOW-ALMS
    The ancient payment of a penny to the church from every plow-land 1 Mon. Angl. 256.
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