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  • POPULUS
    Lat. In Roman law. The people; the whole body of Roman citizens, including as well the patricians as the plebeians.
  • PORCION
    In Spanish law. A part or portion; a lot or parcel; an allotment of land. See Downing v. Diaz, 80 Tex. 436, 10 S. W. 49.
  • PORRECTING
    Producing for examination or taxation, as porrecting a bill of costs, by a proctor.
  • PORT
    A place for the lading and unlading of the cargoes of vessels, and the collection of duties or customs upon imports and exports. A place, either on the sea-coast or on a river, where ships stop for the purpose of loading and unloading, from whence they depart, and where they More...
  • PORTATICA
    In English law. The generic name for port duties charged to ships. Harg. Law Tract, 64.
  • PORTEOUS
    In old Scotch practice. A roll or catalogue containing the names of indicted persons, delivered by the justice-clerk to the coroner, to be attached and arrested by him. Otherwise called the "Porteous Roll." Bell.
  • PORTER
    1. In old English law, this title was given to an officer of the courts who carried a rod or staff before the justices. "2. A person who keeps a gate or door; as the door-keeper of the houses of parliament" 3.One who carries or conveys parcels, luggage, etc., particularly More...
  • PORTERAGE
    A kind of duty formerly paid at the English custom-house to those who attended the water-side, and belonged to the package-office; but it is now abolished. Also the charge made for sending parcels.
  • PORTIO LEGITIMA
    Lat In the civil law. The birthright portion; that portion of an inheritance to which a given heir la entitled, and of which he cannot be deprived by the will of the decedent, without special cause, by virtue merely of his relationship to the testator.
  • PORTION
    The share falling to a child from a parent's estate or the estate of any one bearing a similar relation. State v. Crossley, 69 Ind. 209; Lewis's Appeal, 106 Pa. 136; In re Miller's Will, 2 Lea (Tenn.) 57. Portion is especially applied to payments made to younger children out More...
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