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  • PASSATOR
    He who has the interest or command of the passage of a river; or a lord to whom a duty is paid for passage. Wharton.
  • PASSENGER
    A person whom a common carrier has contracted to carry from one place to another, and has, in the course of the- performance of that contract, received under his care either upon the means of conveyance, or at the point of departure of that means of conveyance. Bricker v. Philadelphia More...
  • PASSIAGIARIUS
    A ferryman. Jacob.
  • PASSING-TICKET
    In English law. A kind of permit being a note or check which the toll-clerks on some canals give to the boatmen, specifying the lading for which they have fcaid toll. Wharton.
  • PA8SIO
    Pannage; a liberty for hogs to run in forests or woods to feed upon mast Mon. Angl. 1, 682.
  • PASSION
    In the definition of manslaughter as homicide committed without premeditation but under the influence of sudden "passion," this term means any intense and vehement emotional excitement of the kind prompting to violent and aggressive action, as, rage, anger, hatred, furious resentment, or terror. See Stell v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) More...
  • PASSPORT
    In international law. A document issued to a neutral merchant vessel, by her own government, during tbe progress of a war, and to be carried on the , voyage, containing a sufficient description of the vessel, master, voyage, and cargo to evidence her nationality and protect her against the cruisers More...
  • PASTO
    In Spanish law. Feeding; pasture; a right of pasture. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c 6, f 4.
  • PASTOR
    Lat. A shepherd. Applied to a minister of the Christian religion, who has charge of a congregation, hence called his "flock." See First Presbyterian Church v. Myers, 5 Okl. 809, 50 Pac. 70, 38 L. R. A. 687.'
  • PASTURE
    Land on which cattle are fed; also the right of pasture. Co. Litt 4b.
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