POLICY, PUBLIC. By public policy is meant that which the law encourages for the promotion of the public good. 2. That which is against public policy i...
POLICE JURY. In Louisiana this name is given. to certain officers who collectively exercise jurisdiction in certain cases of police as levying taxes, ...
POINT RESERVED. A point or question of law which the court, not being fully satisfied how to decide, in the hurried trial of a cause, rules in favor o...
PLURIES, practice. A term by which a writ issued subsequently to an alias of the same kind, is denominated. 2. The pluries writ is made by adding afte...
PLENE ADMINISTRAVIT PRAETERt. This is the usual plea of plene administravit, except that the defendant admits a certain amount of assets in his hands....
PLEDGE, contracts. He who becomes security for another, and, in this sense, every one who becomes bail for another is a pledge. 4 Inst. 180 Com. Dig. ...
PLEADING, SPECIAL. By special pleading is meant the allegation of special or new matter, as distinguished from a direct denial of matter previously al...
TO PLEAD. The formal entry of the defendant's defence on the record. In a popular sense, it signifies the argument in a cause, but it is not so us...
PLAT. A map of a piece of land, in which are marked the courses and disstances of the different lines, and the quantity of land it contains. 2. Such a...
PLAGIARIUS, civil law. He who fraudulently concealed a freeman or slave who belonged to another. 2. The offence itself was called plagium. 3. It diffe...