Legal Term Dictionary

In feudal law. The procuration or provision which tenants were bound to make for their lords at certain times, or as often as they made a progress to their lands: It was often converted Into money.

In feudal law. The procuration or provision which tenants were bound to make for their lords at certain times, or as often as they made a progress to their lands: It was often converted Into money. Less...

Know all men by these presents. Words with which letters of attorney anciently commenced. Reg. Orig. 305b, 306.

Know all men by these presents. Words with which letters of attorney anciently commenced. Reg. Orig. 305b, 306. Less...

adj. Open; manifest; evident; unsealed. Used in this sense in such phrases as "patent ambiguity," "patent writ," "letters patent" ---Letters patent. o Open letters, as distinguished from letters close. An instrument proceeding from the government, and conveying a right, authority, or grant to an individual, as a' patent for a More...

adj. Open; manifest; evident; unsealed. Used in this sense in such phrases as "patent ambiguity," "patent writ," "letters patent" ---Letters patent. o Open letters, as distinguished from letters close. An instrument proceeding from the government, and conveying a right, authority, or grant to an individual, as a' patent for a tract of land, or for the exclusive right to make and sell a new invention. Familiarly termed a "patent" See International Tooth Crown Co. v. Hanks Dental Ass'n (C. C.) Ill Fed. 918.-Patent ambiguity. See AMBIGUITY.-Patent defect. In sales of personal property, one which is plainly visible or which can be discovered by such an inspection as would be made in the exercise of ordinary care and prudence. See Lawson v. Baer, 52 N. C. 461.-Patent writ. In old practice. An open writ; one not closed or sealed up. See CLOSE WRITS. Less...

n. A grant of some privilege, property, or authority, made by the government or sovereign of a country to one or more individuals. Phil. Pat. 1. In English law. . A grant by the sovereign to a subject or subjects, under the great seal, conferring some authority, title, franchise, or More...

n. A grant of some privilege, property, or authority, made by the government or sovereign of a country to one or more individuals. Phil. Pat. 1. In English law. . A grant by the sovereign to a subject or subjects, under the great seal, conferring some authority, title, franchise, or property; termed "letters patent" from being delivered open, and not closed up from inspection. In American law. The Instrument by which a state or government grants public lands to an individual. A grant made by the government to an inventor, conveying and securing to him the exclusive right to make and sell his invention for a term of years. Atlas Glass Co. v. SI-monds Mfg. Co., 102 Fed. 647, 42 C. C. A. 554; Societe Anonyme v. General Electric Co. (O. G.) 97 Fed. 605; Minnesota v. Barber, 136 U. S. 313, 10 Sup. Ct 862, 34 L. Ed. 455; Pegram v. American Alkali Co. (C. C.) 122 Fed. 1000. -Patent bill office. Tbe attorney general's patent bill office is tbe office in which were formerly prepared the drafts of all letters patent issued in England, other than those for inventions. The draft patent was called a "bill," and the officer who prepared it was called the "clerk of tbe patents to the queen's attorney and solicitor general." Sweet-Patent of precedence. Letters patent granted, in England, to such barristers as the crown thinks fit to honor with that mark of distinction, whereby they are entitled to such rank and preaudience as are assigned in their respective patents, which is sometimes next after the attorney general, but more usually next after her majesty's counsel then being. These rank promiscuously with the king's (or queen's) counsel, but are not the sworn servants of the crown. 3 Bl. Comm. 28; 3 Steph. Comm. 274.-Patent-office. In the administrative system of the United States, this is one of the bureaus of the department of the interior. It has charge of the issuing of patents to inventors and of such business as is connected therewith.-Patent-right. A right secured by patent ; usually meaning a right to the exclusive manufacture and sale of an invention or patented article. Avery v. Wilson (C. C.) 20 Fed. 856; Crown Cork & Seal Co. v. State, 87 Md. 687, 40 Atl. 1074, 53 L. R. A. 417; Com. v. Central, etc., Tel. Co.. 145 Pa. 121, 22 Atl. 841, 27 Am. St. Rep. 677.-Patent-right dealer. Any one whose business it is to sell, or offer for sale, patent-rights. 14 St. at Large, 118.-Patent rolls. The official records of royal charters and grants; covering from the reign of King John to recent times. They contain grants of offices and lands, restitutions of temporalities to ecclesiastical persons, confirmations of grants made to bodies corporate, patents of creation of peers, and licenses of all kinds. Hubb. Succ. 617; 32 Phila. Law Lib. 429.-Pioneer patent. A patent for an invention covering a function never before performed, or a wholly novel device, or one of such novelty and importance as to mark a distinct step in the progress of the art, as distinguished from a mere improvement or perfecting of what has gone before. West-inghouse v. Boyden Power-Brake Co., 170 U. S. 537, 18 Sup. Ct. 707, 42 L. Ed. 1136. Less...

Suitable to be patented; entitled by law to be protected by the issuance of a patent Heath Cycle Co. v. Hay (C. C.) 67 Fed. 246; Maier v. Bloom (C. C.) 95 Fed. 166; Boyd v. Cherry (G. C.) 50 Fed. 282; Providence Rubber Co. v. Goodyear, 9 Wall. 796, More...

Suitable to be patented; entitled by law to be protected by the issuance of a patent Heath Cycle Co. v. Hay (C. C.) 67 Fed. 246; Maier v. Bloom (C. C.) 95 Fed. 166; Boyd v. Cherry (G. C.) 50 Fed. 282; Providence Rubber Co. v. Goodyear, 9 Wall. 796, 19 L. Ed. 566. Less...

He to whom a patent has been granted. The term is usually applied to one who has obtained letters patent for a new Invention.

He to whom a patent has been granted. The term is usually applied to one who has obtained letters patent for a new Invention. Less...

Lat. A father; the father. In the civil law, this word sometimes Included avus, (grandfather.) Dig. 50, 16, 201. -Pater patriae. Father of the country. See PATENS PATRIAE. Pater is est qnem nnptiss demons tr ant. The father Is he whom the marriage points out 1 Bl. Comm. 446; Tate More...

Lat. A father; the father. In the civil law, this word sometimes Included avus, (grandfather.) Dig. 50, 16, 201. -Pater patriae. Father of the country. See PATENS PATRIAE. Pater is est qnem nnptiss demons tr ant. The father Is he whom the marriage points out 1 Bl. Comm. 446; Tate v. Penne, 7 Mart (N. S. La.) 548, 553; Dig. 2, 4, 5; Broom, Max. 516. Less...

The father of a family. In Roman law. The head or master of a family. This word is sometimes employed, in a wide sense, as equivalent to sui juris. A person sui' juris is called "paterfamilias" even when under the age of puberty. In the narrower and more common use, More...

The father of a family. In Roman law. The head or master of a family. This word is sometimes employed, in a wide sense, as equivalent to sui juris. A person sui' juris is called "paterfamilias" even when under the age of puberty. In the narrower and more common use, a paterfamilias is any one invested with potestas over any person. It is thus as applicable to a grandfather as to a father. Hunter, Rom. Law, 49. Less...

Lat. Paternal estates to paternal heirs. A rule of the French law, signifying that such portion of a decedent's estate as came to him from his father must descend to his heirs on the father's side.

Lat. Paternal estates to paternal heirs. A rule of the French law, signifying that such portion of a decedent's estate as came to him from his father must descend to his heirs on the father's side. Less...

That which belongs to the father or comes from him. -Paternal power The authority lawfully exercised by parents over their children. This phrase is also used to translate the Latin "patria potestas" (q. v.)-Paternal property* That which descends or comes to one from his father, grandfather, or other ascendant or More...

That which belongs to the father or comes from him. -Paternal power The authority lawfully exercised by parents over their children. This phrase is also used to translate the Latin "patria potestas" (q. v.)-Paternal property* That which descends or comes to one from his father, grandfather, or other ascendant or collateral on the paternal side of the house. Less...