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A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit. Burrill.

allegations of the respective parties in a cause; to carry on a suit or plea. Blackstone. Burrill. Stephen.

mooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee. Burrill. To poll a jury, to call upon each member of the jury to answer individually as to his concurrence in a verdict which has been rendered.

r event that may not happen; a contingent interest, as in real or personal estate. South. Burrill.

k, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. Burrill.

overed of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished. Burrill. Tomlins.

who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy. Burrill.

ion; -- estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound. Burrill. Bouvier.

) allied to the marmots. It inhabits the plains west of the Mississippi. The prairie dogs burrow in the ground in large warrens, and have a sharp bark like that of a dog. Called also prairie marmot. -- Prairie grouse. Same as Prairie chicken, above. -- Prairie hare (Zoöl.), a large long-eared Western hare (Lepus camp…

A command in writing; a species of writ or process. Burrill.

The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered. Burrill.

A payment of money; a toll or duty; also, the rendering of a service. Burrill.

he fact, but grounded on circumstantial or probable evidence which entitles it to belief. Burrill. Best. Wharton. -- Presumption of law (Law), a postulate applied in advance to all cases of a particular class; e. g., the presumption of innocence and of regularity of records. Such a presumption is rebuttable or irrebut…

, triangular stems. -- Prickly rat (Zoöl.), any one of several species of South American burrowing rodents belonging to Ctenomys and allied genera. The hair is usually intermingled with sharp spines.

who employs another to act for him, -- as distinguished from an agent. Wharton. Bouvier. Burrill.

en out of the estate of a deceased person, or out of the estate of an insolvent. Wharton. Burrill. -- Privileged witnesses (Law) witnesses who are not obliged to testify as to certain things, as lawyers in relation to their dealings with their clients, and officers of state as to state secrets; also, by statute, clerg…

vereign, composed of the cabinet ministers and other persons chosen by the king or queen. Burrill. -- Privy councilor, a member of the privy council. -- Privy purse, moneys set apart for the personal use of the monarch; also, the title of the person having charge of these moneys. [Eng.] Macaulay. -- Privy seal or si…

robate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved. Bouvier. Burrill.

commission of the justice of the peace is revived, after having been suspended. Tomlins. Burrill.

ulphate of copper. -- Final process (Practice), a writ of execution in an action at law. Burrill. -- In process, in the condition of advance, accomplishment, transaction, or the like; begun, and not completed. -- Jury process (Law), the process by which a jury is summoned in a cause, and by which their attendance is…