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  • POWER OF SALE
    A clause sometimes inserted in mortgages and deeds of trust giving the mortgagee (or trustee) the right and power, on default in the payment of the debt secured, to advertise and sell the mortgaged property at public auction (but without resorting to a court for authority), satisfy the creditor out More...
  • POYNDING
    See POINDING.
  • POYNINGS' ACT
    An act of parliament, made in Ireland, (10 Hen. VII. c. 22, A. D. 1495;) so called because Sir Edward Poynings was lieutenant there when it was made, whereby all general statutes before then made In England were declared of force in Ireland, which, before that time, they were hot More...
  • PRACTICAL
    A practical construction of a constitution or statute is one determined, not by judicial decision, but practice sanctioned by general consent. Farmers' A Mechanics' Bank v. Smith, 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 69; Bloxhain v. Consumers' Electric Light etc., Co., 30 Fla. 519, 18 South. 444, 29 L. R. A. More...
  • PRACTICE COURT
    In English law. A court attached to the court of king's bench, which heard and determined common matters of business and ordinary motions for writs of mandamus, prohibition, etc. It was usually called the "bail court" It was held by one of the puisne justices of the king's bench.
  • PRACTICES
    A succession of acts of a similar kind or in a like employment
  • PRACTICKS
    In Scotch law. The decisions of the court of session, as evidence of the practice or custom of the country. Beit
  • PRACTITIONER
    He who is engaged In the exercise or employment of any art or profession.
  • PRAECEPTORES
    Lat Masters. The chief clerks in chancery were formerly so called, because they had the direction of making out remedial writs. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 251.
  • PRAECEPTORIES
    In feudal law. A kind of benefices, so called because they were possessed by the more eminent templars, whom the chief master by bis authority created and called "Pr&ceptores Templi,"
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