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to prosecute. It was so called from the words of the writ, "poneper vadiwn et salvos plegios," "put by gage and safe pledges, A. B. t the defendant." PONENDIS IN ASSISIS. Anold writ directing a sheriff to impanel a jury for an assize or real action. PONENDUM IN BALLIUM. A writ commanding that a prisoner be bailed in cases bailable. Eeg. Orig. 133. PONENDUM SIGILLUM AD EX CEPTIONEM. A writ by whjch justice* were required to put their seals to exceptions exhibited by a defendant against a plaintiff's evidence, verdict, or other proceedings, be fore them, according to the statute Westm. 2, (13 Edw. I. St. 1, c. 31.) PONERE. Lat. To put, place, lay, or set. Often used in the Latin terms and phrases of the old law. PONIT SE SUPER PATRIAM. Lat. He puts himself upon the country. The de fendant's plea ot not guilty in a criminal ac tion is recorded, in English practice, in these words, or in the abbreviated form "po. se. " PONTAGE. In old English law. Duty paid for the reparation of bridges; also a due to the lord of the fee for persons or merchan dises that pass over rivers, bridges, etc. Cowell. PONTIBUS REPARANDIS. An old writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to charge one or more to repair a bridge. POOL. A combination of persons con tributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also the aggregate of the sums so contributed. Webster. See 103 U. S. 168. A mutual arrangement between competing railways, by which the receipts of all are ag gregated, and then distributed pro rata ac cording to agreement. A standing water, without any current or issue. Call. Sew. 102. See POND. POOLING CONTRACTS. Agreements between competing railways for a division of the traffic, or for a pro rata distribution of their earnings united into a "pool" or common fund. 15 Fed. Rep. 667, note. See POOL. POOR, in a statute providing for the re lief of the poor, means persons so completely destitute of property as to require assistance from the public. 14 Kan. 418, 422.

polygamous marriage, and become the husband at one time, of two or more wires, maintains that rela tion and status at the time when he offers to be reg istered as a voter; and this without reference to the question whether he was at any time guilty of the offense of bigamy or polygamy, or whether any prosecution for such offense was barred by the lapse of time; neither is it necessary that he should be guilty of polygamy under the first sec tion of the act of March 22,1883. 114 U. S. 16, 5 Sup. Ct. Rep. 747. Bigamy literally means a second marriage distinguished from a third or other; while polygamy means many marriages,—implies more than two. POLYGARCHY. A term sometimes used to denote a government of many or sev eral; a government where the sovereignty is shared by several persons; a collegiate or di vided executive. POMARIUM. In old pleading. An ap ple-tree; an orchard. POND. A body of stagnant water with out an outlet, larger than a puddle and smaller than a lake; or a like body of water with a small outlet. Webster. A standing ditch cast by labor of man's hand, in his private grounds, for his private use, to serve his house and household with necessary waters; but a pool is a low plat of ground by nature, and is not cast by man's hand. Call. Sew. 103. Ponderantur testes, non numerantur. "Witnesses are weighed, not counted. 1 Starkie, Ev. 554; Best, Ev. p. 426, § 389; 14 Wend. 105, 109. PONDUS. In old English law. Pound age; i. «., a duty paid to the crown accord ing to the weight of merchandise. PONDUS REGIS. In old English law. The king's weight; the standard weight ap pointed by the king. Cowell. PONE. In English practice. An original writ formerly used for the purpose of remov ing suits from the court-baron or county court into the superior courts of common law. It was also the proper writ to remove all suits which were before the sheriff by writ of justices. But this writ is now in disuse, the writ of certiorari being the ordinary pro Cess by which at the present day a cause is removed from a county court into any su perior court. Brown. P O N E P E R VADIUM. In English practice. An obsolete writ to the sheriff to summon the defendant to appear and answer the plaintiff's suit, on his putting in sureties

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