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  • PRAECIPE
    Lat In practice. An original writ, drawn up in the alternative, commanding the defendant to do the thing required, or show the reason why he had not done it. 3 Bl. Comm. 274. Also an order, written out and signed, addressed to the clerk of a court and requesting him More...
  • PRAECLPLTIUM
    The punishment of casting headlong from some high place.
  • PRAECIPUT CONVENTIONNEL
    In French law. Under the regime en communaute, when that is of the conventional kind, if the surviving husband or wife is entitled to take any portion of the common property by a paramount title and before partition thereof, this right is called by the somewhat barbarous title of the More...
  • PRAECO
    Lat In Roman law. A herald or crier.
  • PRAECOGNITA
    Things to be previously known In order to the understanding of something which follows. Wharton.
  • PRAEDIA
    In the civil law. Lands; estates; tenements; properties. See PRAEDIUM.-Praedla belliea. Booty. Property seised in war.-Praedla stipendlarla. In the civil law. Provincial lands belonging to the people. -Prsedla tribntaria. In the civil law. Provincial lands belonging to the emperor.-Prsedla volantia. In the duchy of Brabant, certain things movable, such as More...
  • PRAEDIAL SERVITUDE
    A right which is granted for the advantage of one piece of land over another, and which may be exercised by every possessor of the land entitled against every possessor of the servient land. It always presupposes two pieces of land (prwdia) belonging to different proprietors; one burdened with the More...
  • PRAEDIAL TITHES
    Such as arise merely and immediately from the ground; as grain of all sorts, hops, hay, wood, fruit, herbs. 2 Bl. Comm. 23; 2 Steph. Comm. 722.
  • PRAEDICTUS
    Lat Aforesaid. Hob. 6. Of the three words, "idem," "praedictus," and "praefatusS' "idem" was most usually applied, to plaintiffs or demandants; "praedictus," to defendants or tenants, places, towns, or lands; and "prwfatus" to persons named, not being ocfora or parties. Townsh. PI. 15. These words may all be rendered in More...
  • PRAEDIUM
    Lat In the civil law. Land; an estate; a tenement; a piece of landed property. See Dig. 50, 16, 115. -Prsedinm dominans. In the civil law. The name given to an estate to which a servitude is due; the dominant tenement. Morgan v. Mason, 20 Ohio, 400, 55 Am. Dec. More...
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