Lat In the civil law . Lead. Dig. 50, 16, 242, 2.

The most common meaning of the term “to plunder” is to take property from persons or places by open force, and this may be in course of a lawful war, […]

In maritime law . The embezzlement of goods on board of a ship is so called.

A group of different leaders, whose main purpose is to ensure that the financial market in the United States is performing up to the mark and providing investors with devent […]

Containing more than one; consisting of or designating two or more. Webster.

One that holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice, with cure of souls .

In the plural. 10 East, 158, arg.

In the law of elections. The excess of the votes cast for one candidate over those cast for any other. Where there are only two candidates, he who receives the […]

a situation where a person makes more than one trust in a single document but the same person is trustee to them all.

The standard voting system, currently employed in most countries of the world. In plurality voting , each person votes for a candidate, and the candidate who has the most votes […]

Lat Often; frequently. When an original and alias writ have been issued and proved ineffectual, a third writ, called a “pluries writ,” may frequently be issued. It is to the […]

This si term for multiple court orders of attachment or execution issued for the same suit or for the same judgement.

Lat In Scotch practice. A demand of more than is due. Bell. Plus exempla quam peccata nocent. Examples hurt more than crimes. Plus peccat author quam actor. The originator or […]

An increase on the balance sheet due to positive income.

In Roman law. A phrase denoting the offense of claiming more than was just in one’s pleadings. This more might be claimed in four different respects, viz.: (1) Re, i. […]

A plus + placed on a record when a security is sold at a higher price than previously considered. This initiates a short sale. AKA uptick. Refer to minus, zero […]

An alternative term used for rain insurance . Pluvious insurance covers losses that might be incurred due to the interruption of an event on account of rain.

Any hardware or mechanism, which is deisnged to be manipulated, powered and used through gas and air pressure.

Pneumatics is the study of gases and air, and how they behave at rest or when the particles are in motion. Different paplied pressures are also checked.

To steal game on a mau’s laud.

In English criminal law . The unlawful eutry upou land for the purpose of taking or destroying game; the taking or destruction of game upon another’s laud, usually committed at […]

Iu Spanish law. A colonizer ; he who peoples ; the founder of a col- ouy.

This word is used as au adjective iu several compound legal phrases, carrying a meaning suggestive of, or analogous to, its signification as a pouch, bag, or secret receptacle. For […]

A term formerly used in English politics to describe a borough entitled to send a representative to parliament , in which a single individual , either as the principal landlord […]

vetoing of a bill by an executive by not acting in the time given by law.