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PRICKING FOR SHERIFFS

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of the punishment awarded him. Penalties are imposed on lodging-house keepers, etc., for harboring thieves or reputed thieves. There are also provisions relating to re- 1 ceivers of stolen property, and dealers in old metals who purchase the same in small quan tities. This act repeals the habitual crim inals act of 1869, (32 & 33 Vict. c. 99.) Brown. PREVENTIVE JUSTICE. The system of measures taken by government with ref erence to the direct prevention of crime. It generally consists In obliging those per sons whom there is probable ground to sus pect of future misbehavior to give full as surance to the public that such offense as is apprehended shall not happen, by finding pledges or securities to keep the peace, or for their good behavior. See 4 Bl. Comm. 251; 4 Steph. Comm. 290. The name given in England to the coast-guard, or armed police, forming a part of the customs service, and employed in the prevention and detection of smuggling. Previous intentions are judged by sub sequent acts. Dumont v. Smith, 4 Denio (N. Y.) 319, 320. PREVIOUS QUESTION. In the pro cedure of parliamentary bodies, moving the "previous question" is a method of avoiding a direct vote on the main subject of discus sion. It Is described In May, Pari. Prac. 277. An adverb of time, used in comparing an act or state named with another act or state, subsequent in order of time, for the purpose of asserting the priority of the first. Lebrecht v. Wilcoxon, 40 Iowa, 94. The consideration (usually in money) given for the purchase of a thing. It is true that "price" generally means the sum of money which an article is sold for; but this is simply because property is generally sold for money, not because the word has necessarily such a restricted meaning. Among writers on political economy, who use terms with philo sophical accuracy, the word "price" is not al ways or even generally used as denoting the moneyed equivalent of property sold. They gen erally treat and regard price as the equivalent or compensation, in whatever form received, for property sold. The Latin word from which price" is derived sometimes means "reward," "value," "estimation," "equivalent." Hudson Iron Co. v. Alger, 54 N. Y. 177. —Price current. A list or enumeration of various articles of merchandise, with their prices, the duties, if any, payable thereon, when imported or exported, with the drawbacks oc casionally allowed upon their exportation, etc. Wharton. In Eng land, when the yearly list of persons nomi nated for the office of sheriff is submitted to the sovereign, he takes a pin, and to insure PREVENTIVE SERVICE. PREVIOUSLY. PRICE. PRICKING FOR SHERIFFS.

PRETIUM.

Lat.

Price; cost; value;

the price of an article sold. — Pretium affectionis. An imaginary value put upon a thing by the fancy of the owner, and growing out of his attachment for the specific article, its associations, his sentiment for the donor, etc. Bell; The H. F. Dimock, 77 Fed. 233, 23 O. C. A. 123.— Pretium pe riculi. The price of the risk, e. g., the pre mium paid on a policy of insurance; also the inteiest paid on money advanced on bottomry or respondentia.— Pretium sepulchri. A mortuary, (q. v.) The price stands in the place of the thing sold. 1 Bouv. Inst. no. 939; 2 Bulst. 312. In Scotch law. A court house, or hall of Justice. 3 How. State Tr. 425. That one of the parties to a suit who successfully prose cutes the action or successfully defends against it, prevailing on the main issue, though not to the extent of his original con tention. See Belding v. Conklin, 2 Code Rep. (N. Y) 112; Weston v. Cushing, 45 Vt. 531; Hawkins v. Nowland, 53 Mo. 329; Pomroy v. Cates, 81 Me. 377, 17 Atl. 311. PREVARICATION. In the civil law. Deceitful, crafty, or unfaithful conduct; particularly, such as is manifested in con cealing a crime. Dig. 47, 15, 6. In English law. A collusion between an informer and a defendant, in order to a feigned prosecution. Cowell. Also any se cret abuse committed in a public office or private commission; also the willful conceal ment or misrepresentation of truth, by giv ing evasive or equivocating evidence. To hinder or preclude. To stop or intercept the approach, access, or performance of a thing. Webster; U. S. v. Souders, 27 Fed. Cas. 1,269; Green v. State, 109 Ga. 536, 35 S. E. 97; Burr v. Williams, 20 Ark. 171; In re Jones, 78 Ala. 421. The right of a judge to take cognizance of an action over which he has concurrent juris diction with another judge. In canon law. The right which a su perior person or officer has to lay hold of, claim, or transact an affair prior to an in ferior one, to whom otherwise it more im mediately belongs. Wharton. The statute 34 & 35 Vict. c. 112, passed for the purpose of securing a better supervision over habitual criminals. This act provides that a person who is for a second time con victed of crime may, on his second convic tion, be subjected to police supervision for a period of seven years after the expiration Pretium succedit in locum rei. PRETORIUM. PREVAILING PARTY. PREVENT. PREVENTION. In the civil law. PREVENTION OP CRIMES ACT.