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  • POTWALLOPER
    A term formerly applied to voters in certain boroughs of England, where all who boll (wallop) a pot were entitled to vote. Webster.
  • POULTRY COUNTER
    The name of a prison formerly existing in London. See COUNTER.
  • POUND
    1. A place, Inclosed by public authority, for the temporary detention of stray animals. Harriman v. Fifleld, 36 Vt 345; Wooley v. Groton, 2 Cush. (Mass.) 308. A pound-overt is said to be one that is open, overhead; a pound-corcrt is one that is close, or covered over, such as More...
  • POUNDAGE
    In practice. An allowance to the sheriff of so much In the pound upon the amount levied under an execution. Bowe v. Campbell, 2 Civ. Proc. R. (N. Y.) 234. The money which an owner of animals impounded must pay to obtain their release. In old English law. A subsidy More...
  • POUR COMPTE DE QUI IL APPARTMENT
    Fr. For account of whom it may concern.
  • POUR FAIRE PROCLAIMER
    L. Fr. An ancient writ addressed to the mayor or bailiff of a city or town, requiring him tot make proclamation concerning nuisances, etc. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 176.
  • POUR SEISIR TERRES
    L. Fr. An ancient writ whereby the crown seized the land which the wife of its deceased tenant, who held in capite, had for her dower, ir she married without leave. It was grounded on the statute Do Prmrogativa Regis, 7, (17 Edw. II. St 1, c 4.) It is More...
  • POURPARLER
    Fr. In French law. The preliminary negotiations or bargainings which lead to a contract between the parties. As in English law, these form no part of the contract when completed. The term is also used In this sense in international law and the practice of diplomacy.
  • POURPARTY
    To make pourparty is to divide and sever the lands that fall to parceners, which, before partition,' they held jointly and pro indiviso. Cowell.
  • POURPRESTURE
    An inclosure. Anything done to the nuisance or hurt of the public demesnes, or the highways, etc., by inclosure or building, endeavoring to make that private which ought to be public. The difference between a pourpresture and a public nuisance is that pourpresture is an invasion of the jus privatum More...
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