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  • PLOW-BOTE
    An allowance of wood which tenants are entitled to, for repairing their plows and other Implements of husbandry.
  • PLOW-LAND
    A quantity of land "not of any certain content, but as much as a plow can, by course of husbandry, plow in a year." Co. Litt. 69.
  • PLOW-MONDAY
    The Monday after twelfth-day.
  • PLOW-SILVER
    Money formerly paid by some tenants, in lieu of service to plow the lord's lands.
  • PLUMBATURA
    Lat In the civil law. Soldering. Dig. 6,1,23,5.
  • PLUMBUM
    Lat. In the civil law. Lead. Dig. 50, 16, 242, 2.
  • PLUNDER (VERB)
    The most common meaning of the term "to plunder" is to take property from persons or places by open force, and this may be in course of a lawful war, or by unlawful hostility, as in the case of pirates or banditti. But in another and very common meaning,' though More...
  • PLUNDER (NOUN)
    Personal property belonging to an enemy, captured and appropriated on land; booty. Also the act of seizing such property. See BOOTY PRIZE.
  • PLUNDERAGE
    In maritime law. The embezzlement of goods on board of a ship is so called.
  • PLURAL
    Containing more than one; consisting of or designating two or more. Webster. -Plural marriage. See MARRIAGE. Pluralis Humerus est duobus eonten-tus. 1 Rolle, 476. The plural number Is satisfied by two.
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