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  • PENETRATION
    A term used in criminal law, and denoting (In cases of alleged rape) the insertion of the male part into the female parts to however slight an extent; and by which insertion the offense is complete without proof of emission. Brown.
  • PENITENTIARY
    A prison or place of punishment; the place of punishment in which convicts sentenced to confinement and hard labor are confined by the authority of the law. Millar v. State, 2 Kan. 175.
  • PENNON
    A standard, banner, or ensign carried in war.
  • PENNY
    An English coin, being the twelfth part of a shilling. It was also used in America during the colonial period.
  • PENNYWEIGHT
    A Troy weight equal to twenty-four grains, or one-twentieth part of an ounce. . PENSAM. The full weight of twenty ounces.
  • PENSIO
    Lat In the civil law. A payment, properly, for the use of a thing. A rent; a payment for the use and occupation of another's house.
  • PENSION
    A stated allowance out of the public treasury granted by government to an Individual, or to his representatives, for his valuable services to the country, or in compensation for loss or damage sustained by him in the public service. Price v. Society for Savings, 64 Conn. 362, 30 Atl. 139, More...
  • PENSIONER
    One who is supported by an allowance at the will of another; a dependent. It is usually applied (in a public sense) to those who receive pensions or annuities from government, who are chief* ly such as have retired from places of honor and emolument. Jacob. Persons making periodical payments More...
  • PENT-ROAD
    A road shut up or closed at its terminal points. Wolcott v. Whit comb, 40 Vt 41.
  • PENTECOSTALS
    In ecclesiastical law. Pious oblations made at the feast of Pentecost by parishioners to their priests, and sometimes by inferior churches or parishes to the principal mother churches. They are also called "Whitsun farthings." Wharton.
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