Tag: PE

Definition of Personal Property Moveable property ; goods and chattels. Moveable property, if lost or taken, could not as of right be recovered from the wrongful possessor ; the latter had the option of paying its value as damages in lieu. The action against the wrongdoer was called a personal […]

Definition of Personal Representative An executor or administrator whether acting with regard to personal property or, under the Land Transfer Act, 1897, with, regard to real property. By section 55, sub-section 1 (xi) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, personal representative means the […]

Definition of Personalty Personal property passing on death of the owner. Pure personalty is personal property unconnected with land. Mixed personalty is personal property consisting of interests in land, such as leaseholds Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]

Definition of Personation The act of representing oneself to be someone else, whether living or dead, real or fictitious. It is a felony by various statutes Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Personation in the Dictionaries, Personation in our legal […]

Definition of Petty Sessional Court Or Petty Sessions A Court of summary jurisdiction consisting of two or more justices when sitting in a petty sessional court-house, and including the Lord Mayor or any alderman of the City of London, or any salaried magistrate when sitting in any place where […]

Definition of Peter V. Compton ((1694), Skinner, 353). This was an action upon an agreement of the defendant, in consideration of one guinea paid to him, to give the plaintiff fifty on the day of his marriage. The marriage did not happen within a year, and the question was whether or no the […]

Definition of Petition A written statement addressed to the Crown, a Court or public officer, setting forth facts on which the petitioner bases a prayer for remedy or relief. Proceedings in the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, in Bankruptcy, in the House of Lords and Privy Council are […]

Definition of Petition Of Right (1) The mode by which a subject can claim relief from the Crown for certain kinds of injury arising from the acts of the Crown or its servants, e.g., an illegal seizure of goods, or a claim for breach of contract. The petition may be presented in any of the…

Definition of Petty Bag Office The principal office on the common law side of the Court of Chancery, under the management of the Clerk of the Petty Bag (q.v.). Out of it issued all original writs Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Petty Bag Office in […]

Definition of Petty Sergeanty A form of tenure, which consisted in the rendering of some minor personal service to the lord, such as yielding him yearly a sword or pair of gilt spurs. The Act 12 Car. 2, c. 24, did not affect its incidents, which are expressly preserved by the Law of Property […]