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Pharos
Pharos, a watch-tower, or sea-mark, which cannot be erected without lawful warrant and authority, 3 Inst. 204.
Praepositus
a hundred, called pr'positus regius; or a steward or bailiff of an estate, answering to the wicnere, Anc. Inst. Eng. Also the person from whom descents are traced under the old canons.
Port
Whitstable, (1869) LR 4 HL, at p. 285. Portus est locus in quo exportantur et importantur merces. 2 Inst. 148.(A port is a place -where goods are exported an imported.) See LONDON, PORT OF; HAVENS; and 1
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Pourpresture or purpresture
of this offence: (1) against the Crown; (2) against the lord of the fee; (3) against a neighbour-2 Inst. 38. Purpresture within a forest was where any man made any manner of encroachment upon the forest either
Practice
facilius quam regulis percipies (You will perceive many things much more easily by practice than by rules): 4 Inst. C. 50. As to the practice of the Courts of Common Law, see Day's Common Law Procedure Acts,
Official
foranei, i.e., commissaries. in our statute she is the person whom the archdeacon appoints as his substitute. Wood's Inst. 30, 505
Preamble
out the meaning of the statute, and as it were a key to open the understanding thereof, 1 Inst. 79 a; and see the Sussex Peerage Case, (1844) 11 Cl&F 143; Winn v. Mossman, (1869) LR 4
Presumption
Presumption, a supposition, opinion, or belief pre-viously formed, Wood's Inst. 599. Presumptions have been said to be either: (1) juris et de jure (irrebuttable); or (2) juris (rebuttable);
Previous conviction
of Crimes Act, 1871. See Faulkner v. R., (1905) 2 KB 76. Multiplicata' transgressione crescat p'n' inflictio, 2 Inst. 479. And see PROBATION and PREVENTIVE DETENTION.
Privement ensient
Privement ensient, pregnancy in its earlier stages, Wood's Inst. 662.
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