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  • PUTTING IN SUIT
    , as applied to a bond, or any other legal instrument, signifies bringing an action upon it, or making It the subject of an action.
  • PUTURE
    In old English law. A custom claimed by keepers In forests, and sometimes by bailiffs of hundreds, to take man's meat, horse's meat and dog's meat of the tenants and inhabitants within the perambulation of the forest hundred, etc. The land subject to this custom was called "terra putura." Others, More...
  • PYKE, PAIK
    In Hindu law. A foot-passenger ; a person employed as a night-watch In a village, and as a runner or messenger on the business of the revenue. Wharton.
  • PYKERIE
    In old Scotch law. Petty theft 2 Pitc Crim. Tr. 43.
  • PYROMANIA
    See INSANITY.
  • Q. B.
    An abbreviation of "Queen's Bench."
  • Q. B. D.
    An abbreviation of "Queen's Bench Division."
  • Q. C. F.
    An abbreviation of "Queen's Counsel."
  • Q. C. F.
    An abbreviation of "quare clau-fregit," (q. v.)
  • Q. E. N.
    An abbreviation of "quare exe-cutionem non," wherefore execution [should] not [be issued.]
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