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  • IN PLENA VITA
    In full life. Yearb. P. 18 Hen. VI. 2.
  • IN PLENO COMITATU
    In full county court 3 Bl. Comm. 36.
  • IN PLENO LUMINE
    In public; in common knowledge; in the light of day. In pcenalibu* eanals benignius inter* pretandum est. In penal causes or cases, the more favorable interpretation should be adopted. Dig. 50, 17, (197), 155, 2; Plowd 86b, 124; 2 Hale, P. C. 365.
  • IN POSSE
    In possibility; not in actual existence. See IN Essie.
  • IN POTESTATE PARENTIS
    In the power of a parent. Inst 1, 8, pr.; I
  • IN PRAEMISSORUM FIDEM
    In confirmation or attestation of the premises. A notarial phrase. In prstparatorils ad judicium favetur aotori. 2 Inst. 57. In things preceding Judgment the plaintiff is favored.
  • IN PRAESENTI
    At the present time. 2 Bl. Comm. 166. Used in opposition to in futuro. See Van Wyck v. Knevals, 106 U. S. 860, 1 Sup. Ct 336, 27 L Ed. 201. In prsssentia majoris potestatis, minor potestas ccssat. In the presence of the superior power, the inferior power ceases. Jenk. More...
  • IN PRENDER
    L. Fr. In taking. A term applied to such Incorporeal hereditaments as a party entitled to them was to take for himself; such as common. 2 Steph. Comm. 23; 3 Bl. Comm. 15. In pretio emptlonis et venditioni*, na-tnraliter licet contranentibus se cir* eumvenire. In the price of buying and More...
  • IN PRIMIS
    in the first place. A phrase used in argument
  • IN PRINCIPIO
    At the beginning.
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