PREMIER

A principal minister of state; the prime minister. PREMIEB SEBJEAN~ THE QUEEN'S. This officer, so constituted by letters patent, has preaudience over the bar after the attorney and solicitor g~eral and queen's advocate. 3 Steph. Comm. (7th 0d.) 274, note. PREMISES, That which is put before; that which pl'ecedes; the foregoing statements. Thus, in logic, the two introductory propositions of the syllogism are called the "premises," and from them thie conclusion ~ deduced. So, in pleading, the expre ion "in consideration of the premises" frequently occurs, the meaning being ''in consideration of the matters hereinbefore stated." See Teutonia F. Ins. Co. v. Mund, 102 Pa. 93; Alaska Imp. Oo. v. Hirsch, 119 Cal. 249, 41 Pac. 124. In conveyancing, That part of a deed which precedes the habendum, in which are set forth the names of the parties with their titles and additions, and in which are recited such deeds, agreements, or matters of fact as are nece ary to explain the reasons upon which the present transaction is founded·; and it is here, also, the consideration on which it is made is set down and the certainty of the thing granted. 2 BL Comm. 298. And see Miller v. Graham, 47 S. C. 288, 25 S. E. 165; Brown v. Manter, 21 N. H. 533, 53 Am. Dec. 223; Rouse v. Steamboat Oo., 59 Hun, 80, 13 N. Y. Supp. 126. ' In estates. Lands and tenements; an ea• tate; the subject-matter of a conveyance. Th1:, term "pr(;lmises" is used in common parlance to signify land, with its appurtenances; but its usual and appropriate meaning in a conveyance is the thing demised or granted b,Y the deed. New Jersey Zinc Co. v. New Jersey Franklinite Co., 13 N. J. Eq. 322; In re Rohr- [s. 937]