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  • POLLARDS
    A foreign coin of base metal, prohibited by St. 27 Edw. I. c. 3, from being brought into the realm, on pain of forfeiture of life and goods. 4 Bl. Comm. 98. It was computed at two pollards for a sterling or penny. Dyer, 82b.
  • POLLENGERS
    Trees which have been lopped; distinguished from timber-trees. Plowd 649
  • POLLICITATION
    In the civil law. An offer not yet accepted by the person to whom it is made. Langd. Cont | 1. See McCul-loch v. Eagle Ins. Co., 1 Pick. (Mass.) 283.
  • POLLIGAR, POLYGAR
    In Hindu law. The head of a village or district; also a military chieftain in the peninsula, answering to a hill zemindar In the northern circara. Wharton.
  • POLLING THE JURY
    To poll a jury Is to require that each juror shall himself declare what is his verdict.
  • POLLS
    The place where electors cast in their votes. Heads; individuals; persons singly considered. A challenge to tbe polls (in capita) is a challenge to the individual jurors composing the panel, or an exception to one or more particular jurors. 3 Bl. Comm. 358, 361.
  • POLYANDRY
    The civil condition of having more husbands than one to the same woman; a social order permitting plurality of husbands. Polygamia est plurium stmul virorum uxorumve eonnubium. 3 Inst. 88. Polygamy Is the marriage with many husbands or wives at one time.
  • POLYGAMY
    In criminal law. The offense of having several wives or husbands at the same time, or more than one wife or husband at the same time. 3 Inst. 88. And see Reynolds v. U. S., 98 U. S. 145, 25 L. Ed. 244. The offense committed by a layman in More...
  • POLYGARGHY
    A term sometimes used to denote a government of many or several; a government where the sovereignty is shared by several persons; a collegiate or divided executive. POMARIUM. In old pleading. An apple-tree; an orchard.
  • POND
    A body of stagnant water without an outlet, larger than a puddle and smaller than a lake; or a like body of water with a small outlet. Webster. And see Rockland Water Co. v. Camden & R. Water Co., 80 Me. 544, 15 Atl. 785, 1 L. R. A. 388; More...
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