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  • PONDUS
    In old English law. Poundage; i. c, a duty paid to the crown according to the weight of merchandise. -Pondus regis. The king's weight: the standard weight appointed by the king. Cowell.
  • PONE
    In English practice. An original Writ formerly used for the purpose of removing suits from the court-baron or county court into the su[)erior courts of common law. It was also the proper writ to remove all suits which were before the sheriff by writ of justices. But this writ is More...
  • PONE PER VADIUM
    In English practice. An obsolete writ to the sheriff to summon the defendant to appear and answer the plaintiffs suit, on his putting in sureties to prosecute. It was so called from the words of the writ, "pone per vadium et salvos plcgios," "prut by gage and safe pledges, A. More...
  • PONENDIS IN ASSISIS
    An old writ directing a sheriff to impanel a jury for aa assize or real action.
  • PONENDUM IN BALLIUM
    A writ commanding that a prisoner be bailed in cases bailable. Reg. Orig 133.
  • PONENDUM SIGULLUM AD EXCEPTIONEM
    A writ by which justices were required to put their seals to exceptions exhibited by a defendant against a plaintiffs evidence, verdict, or other proceedings, before them, according to the statute Westm. 2, (13 Edw. I. St. 1, c. 31.)
  • PONERE
    Lat To put place, lay, or set o Often used in the Latin terms and phrases of the old law.
  • PONIT SE SUPER PATRIAM
    Lat He puts himself upon the country. The defendant's plea of not guilty in a criminal action is recorded, in English practice, In these words, or in the abbreviated form "po. se"
  • PONTAGE
    In old English law. Duty paid for the reparation of bridges; also a due to the lord of the fee for persons or merchandises that pass over rivers, bridges, eta Cowell.
  • PONTIBUS REPARANDIS
    An old writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to charge one or more to repair a bridge.
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