Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

POACHING

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PLUNDER

you," ("ttcut pluries prcecepimus,") aftei the usual commencement, "We command you." 3 Bl. Comm. 283; Archb. Pr. 585. PLURIS PETITIO. 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 instigator of a crime is a woise offender than the actual perpetrator of it. 5 Coke, 99a. Applied to the crime of suborna tion of perjury. Id. PLUS PETITIO. 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. e., in amount, (e. g., £50 for £5;) (2) loco, i. e., in place, (e. g., delivery at some place more difficult to effect than the place specified;) (3) tempore, i. e., in time, (e. g., claiming payment on the 1st of Au gust of what is not due till the 1st of Septem ber;) and (4) causa, i. e., in quality, (e. g., claiming a dozen of champagne, when the con tract was only fora dozen of wine generally.} Prior to Justinian's time, this offense was in general fatal to the action; but, under the legislation of the emperors Zenoand Justin ian, the offense (if re, loco, or causa) exposed the party to the payment of three times the damage, if any, sustained by the other side, and (if tempore) obliged him to postpone his action for double the time, and to pay the costs of his first action before commencing a second. Brown. Plus valet oonsuetudo quam conces sio. Custom is more powerful than grant. Plus valet unus oculatus testis quam auriti decem. One eye-witness is of more weight than ten ear-witnesses, [or those who speak from hearsay.] 4 Inst. 279. Plus vident oouli quam ooulus. Sev eral eyes see more than one. 4 Inst. 160. PO. LO. SUO. An old abbreviation for the words "ponit loco suo," used in war rants of attorney. Townsh. PI. 431. POACH. To steal game on a man's land. POACHING. In English criminal law. The unlawful entry upon land for the pur pose of taking or destroying game; the tak ing or destruction of game upon another'* land, usually committed at night. Steph. Crim. Lav 119, et seq.; 2 Steph. Comm. 82.

figurative, It is used to express the idea of taking property from a person or place, with out just right, but not expressing the nature or quality of the wrong done. 16 Pick. 9. PLUNDER, n. Personal property belong ing to an enemy, captured and appropriated on land; booty. Also the act of seizing such property. See BOOTY ; PRIZE. PLUNDERAGE. In maritime law. The embezzlement of goods on board of a ship is so called. PLURAL. Containing more than one; consisting of or designating two or more. Webster. Pluralis numerus est duobus conten tus. 1 Rolle, 476. The plural number is satisfied by two. PLURALIST. One that holds more than one ecclesiastical beneCce, with cure of souls, PLURALITER. In the plural. 10 East, 158, arg. PLURALITY. In the law of elections. The excess of the votes cast for one candi date over those cast for any other. Where there are only two candidates, he who re ceives the greater number of the votes cast is said to have a majority; when there are more than two competitors for the same of fice, the person who receives the greatest number of votes has a plurality, but he has not a majority unless he receives a greater number of votes than tho3e cast for all his competitors combined. In ecclesiastical law, "plurality" means the holding two, three, or more benefices by the

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