KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

PRAEMUNIRE

PREDIAL SERVITUDE

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by the people, in others by the praetors. Butl. Hor. Jur. 29. PRiEFECTUS URBI. Lat In Roman law. The name of an officer who, from the time of Augustus, had the superintendence of the city and its police, with jurisdiction extending one hundred miles from the city, and power to decide both civil and criminal cases. As he was considered the direct rep resentative of the emperor, much that pre viously belonged to the prwtor urbanus fell gradually into his hands. Colq. Rom. Civil Law, § 2395. PR^JFECTUS VIGILUM. Lat In Ro man law. The chief officer of the night watch. His jurisdiction extended to certain offenses affecting the public peace, and even to larcenies; but he could inflict only slight punishments. Colq. Rom. Civil Law, § 2395. PR^FECTUS VILL^E. The mayor of a town. PRiEFINE. The fee paid on suing out the writ of covenant on levying fines, before the fine was passed. 2 Bl. Comm. 350. PRJELEGATUM. Lat In Roman law. A payment in advance of the whole or part of the share which a given heir would be entitled to receive out of an inheritance; cor responding generally to "advancement" in English and American law. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 762. compensation for insurance; premium of insurance. Locc de Jur. Mar. lib. 2, c. 5, § 6. —Prsemium emancipationis. In Roman law. A reward or compensation anciently al lowed to a father on emancipating his child, consisting of one-third of the child's separate and individual property, not derived from the father himself. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, $ 605.—Prsemium pudicitise. The price of chastity; or compensation for loss of chastity. A term applied to bonds and other engagements given for the benefit of a seduced female. Sometimes called "prcemium pudoris." 2 Wils. 339, 340. The name of an offense against the king and his government though not subject to capital punishment So called from the words of the writ which issued preparatory to the prosecution: "Prcemunire facias A. B. quod sit coram nolis," etc.; "Cause A. B. to be forewarned that he appear before us to an swer the contempt with which he stands charged." The statutes establishing this of fense, the first of which was made in the thirty-first year of the reign of Edward I., were framed to encounter the papal usurpa tions in England: the original meaning of PREMIUM. Lat Reward; compensa tion. Prwmium asseourationis, PR^MUNIRE. In English law. PRiEJURAMENTUM. law. A preparatory oath. In old English

among immovables, and were called or "volatile estates." 2 Bl. Comm. 428. PREDIAL, SERVITUDE. A right which is granted tor the advantage of one piece of land over another, and which may be exer cised by every possessor of the land entitled against every possessor of the servient land. It always presupposes two pieces of land (prcedia) belonging to different proprietors; one burdened with the servitude, called "prw dium serviens," and one for the advantage of which the servitude is conferred, called "prcedium dominans." Mackeld Rom. Law, { 314. Such as arise merely and immediately from the ground; as grain of all sorts, hops, hay, wood, fruit, herbs. 2 Bl. Comm. 23; 2 Steph. Comm. 722. PR2EDICTUS. Lat Aforesaid. Hob. 6. Of the three words, "idem," "prcedictus," and "prcefatus," "idem" was most usually applied to plaintiffs or demandants; "prcedictus," to de fendants or tenants, places, towns, or lands; and "prcefatus," to persons named, not being actors or parties. Townsh. PI. 15. These words may all be rendered in English by "said" or "aforesaid." In the civil law. Land; an estate; a tenement; a piece of landed property. See Dig. 50, 16, 115. —Prsedium dominans. In the civil law. The name given to an estate to which a servi tude is due; the dominant tenement. Morgan v. Mason, 20 Ohio, 409, 55 Am. Dec 464.— Prsedium rusticum. In Roman law. A rus tic or rural estate. Primarily, this term de noted an estate lying in the country, i. e., be yond the limits of the city, but it was applied to any landed estate or heritage other than a dwelling-house, whether in or out of the town. Thus, it included gardens, orchards, pastures, meadows, etc. Mackeld. Rom. Law, S 316. A rural or country estate; an estate or piece of land principally destined or devoted to agriculture; an empty or vacant space of f round without buildings.—Prsedium serv ens. In the civil law. The name of an es tate which suffers a servitude or easement to another estate; the servient tenement. Mor gan v. Mason, 20 Ohio, 409, 55 Am. Dec. 464. —Prsedium nrbannm. In the civil law. A building or edifice intended for the habitation and use of man, whether built in cities or in the country. Colq. Rom. Civil Law, § 937. Prsedium servit prsedio. Land is under servitude to land, [i. e., servitudes are not personal rights, but attach to the dominant tenement.] Tray. Lat Max. 455. PR2EDIAL TITHES. PR^EDIUM. Lat "prcedia volantia,"

PRiEDO. Lat In Roman law. A rob ber. See Dig. 50, 17, 126.

PRJEFATUS.

Lat.

Aforesaid.

Some

times abbreviated to "prwfat,"

and "p. fat.'*

PRJBFECTURiE. In Roman law. Con quered towns, governed by an officer called a ••prefect," who was chosen In some instances