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  • 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.]
  • Q.S.
    An abbreviation for "Quarter Sessions."
  • Q. T.
    An abbreviation of "qui torn," (q. v.)
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