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  • PLURALIST
    One that holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice, with cure of souls.
  • PLURALITER
    In the plural. 10 East 158, arg.
  • PLURALITY
    In the law of elections. The excess of the votes cast for one candidate over those cast for any other. Where there are only two candidates, he who receives the greater number of the votes cast is said to have a majority; when there are o more than two competitors More...
  • PLURIES
    Lat Often; frrequently, When an original and alias writ have been issued and proved ineffectual, a third writ called a "pluries writ" niay; frequently: be. issued. It is to the same effect as the two, former, except that it contains the words, "as we have often commanded you," ("siont pluries More...
  • PLURIS PETITIO
    Lat In Scotch practice. A demand of more than is due: Bell. Plus ezempla quam peeeata nocent. Examples hurt more than crimes. Plus peeeat author quant actor. The originator or instigator of a crime is a worse offender than the actual perpetrator of It 5 Coke, 99a. Applied to the More...
  • PLUS PETITIO
    In Roman law. A phrase denoting the offense of claiming more than was just in one's pleadings. This more* might be claimed in four different respects; viz.: (1) Re, i. e., in amount, (e. g., ?50 for ?5;) (2) loco, i. 6.. in place, (e. p., delivery at some place More...
  • PO. LO, SUO.
    An old abbreviation for the words "ponit loco suo" (puts in his place,) used In warrants of attorney. Townsh. PI. 431.
  • POACH
    To steal game on a man's land.
  • POACHING
    In English criminal law. The unlawful entry upon land for the purpose of taking or destroying game; the taking or destruction of game upon another's land, usually committed at night Steph. Crim. Law 119, et seq.; 2 Steph. Comm. 82.
  • POBLADOR
    In Spanish law. A colonizer ; he who peoples; the founder of a colony.
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