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  • PLAGIARISM
    The act of appropriating | the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one's own mind.
  • PLAGIARIST OR PLAGIARY
    One who publishes the thoughts and writings of another as his own.
  • PLAGIARIUS
    Lat In the civil law. A man-stealer; a kidnapper. Dig. 48* 15, 1; 4 Bl. Comm. 219.
  • PLAGIUM
    Lat In the civil law. Man-stealing; kidnapping. The offense of enticing away and stealing men, children, and slaves. Calvin. The persuading a slave to escape from his master, or the concealing or harboring him without the knowledge of his master. Dig. 48, 15, 6.
  • PLAGUE
    Pestilence; a contagious and malignant fever.
  • PLAIDEUR
    Fr. An obsolete term for an attorney who pleaded the cause of his client; an advocate.
  • PLAIN STATEMENT
    is one that may be readily understood, not merely by lawyers, but by all who are sufficiently acquainted with the language in which it is written. Mann v. More wood, 5 Sandf. (N. Y,) 557, 504.
  • PLAINT
    In English praetiee. A private memorial tendered In open court to the judge, wherein the party injured sets forth his cause of action. A proceeding in Inferior courts by which an action is com menced without original writ. 3 Bl. Comm. 373. This mode of proceeding is commonly adopted in More...
  • PLAINTIFF
    A person who brings an action; the party who complains or sues in a personal action and is so named on the record. Gulf, etc., R. Co. v. Scott (Tex. Civ. App.) 28 S. W. 458; Canaan v. Greenwoods Turnpike Co., 1 Conn. 1. -Plaintiff In error. The party who More...
  • PLAN
    A map, chart or design; being a delineation or projection on a plane surface of the ground lines of a house, farm, street, city, etc., reduced in absolute length, but preserving their relative positions and proportion. Jenney v. Des Moines, 103 Iowa, 347, 72 N. W. 550; Wetherill v. Penney More...
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