PLENE ADMINISTRAVIT PRAETERt. This is the usual plea of plene administravit, except that the defendant¹ admits a certain amount of assets in his hands.

PLENE COMPUTAVIT, pleading. A plea in an action of account render, by which the defendant avers² that he has fully³ accounted. Bac. Ab. Accompt, E. This plea does not admit the liability of the defendant to account. 15 S. & R. 153.

PLENIPOTENTIARY. Possessing full powers; as, a minister plenipotentiary, is one authorized⁴ fully to settle the matters connected with his mission, subject however to the ratification⁵ of the government by which he is authorized. Vide Minister.

PLENUM DOMINIUM. The unlimited⁶ right which the owner has to use his property as he deems proper, without accountability to any one.

PLOUGH-BOTE. An allowance made to a rural tenant⁷, of wood sufficient for ploughs, harrows, carts, and other instruments of hushandry.

PLOUGH-LAND, old Eng. law. An uncertain quantity of land; but, according to some opinions, it contains one hundred and twenty acres. Co. Litt. 69 a.

TO PLUNDER⁸. The capture of personal property on land by a public enemy, with a view of making it his own. The property so captured is called plunder. See Booty; Piize.

PLUNDERAGE, mar⁹. law. The embezzlement¹⁰ of goods on board of a ship, is known by the name of plunderage.

2. The rule of the maritime¹¹ law in such cases is, that the whole crew shall be responsible for the property thus embezzled¹², because there must be some negligence¹³ in finding out the depredator. Abbott on Ship. 457; 3 John. Rep. 17; 1 Pet. Adm. Dee. 243; 1 New Rep. 347; 1 Pet. Adm. Dee. 200, 239.

PLURAL¹⁴. A term used in grammar, which signifies more than one.

2. Sometimes, however, it may be so expressed that it means only one, as, if a man were to devise to another all he was worth, if he, the testator, died without children, and he died leaving one child, the devise would not take effect. See Dig. 50, 16, 148; Id. 35, 1, 101, 1; Id. 3 1, 17, 4 Code, 6, 49, 6, 2; Shelf. on L 559, 589. See Singular.

PLURALITY, government. The greater number of votes given at an election; it is distinguished¹⁵ from a majority, (q. v.) which is a plurality of all the votes which might have been given; though in common parlance¹⁶ majority is used in the sense here given to plurality.