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  • PRIST
    Ready. In the old forms of oral pleading, this term expressed a tender or Joinder of issue. Prius vitiia laboravimus, nune legibus. 4 Inst 76. We labored flrst with vices, now with laws.
  • PRIVATE
    Affecting or belonging to private individuals, as distinct from the public generally. Not official. -Private person. An individual who is not the incumbent of an office. As to. private "Act," "Agent," "Bill," "Boundary," "Bridge," '^Carrier," "Chapel/* oCorporation," "Easement," "Examination," "Perry," "Nuisance," "Property," "Prosecutor," "Rights," "Road," "Sale," "School," "Seal," "Statute," "Stream," More...
  • PRIVATE LAW
    As used in contradistinction to public law, the term means all that part of the law which is administered between citizen and citizen, or which is concerned'with the definition, regulation, and enforcement of rights in cases where both the person in whom the right inheres and the person upon whom More...
  • PRIVATEER
    A vessel owned, equipped, and armed by one or more private individuals, and duly commissioned by a belligerent power to go on cruises and make war upon the enemy, usually by preying on his commerce. Priratio prsssnpponit habitum. 2 Rolle, 419. A deprivation presupposes a possession.
  • PRIVATION
    A taking away or withdrawing. Co. Litt 239. Privatis paetionibus non dubium est non lanli jns oeterorum. There Is no doubt that the rights of others [third parties] cannot be prejudiced by private agreements. Dig. 2, 15, 3, pr.; Broom, Max. 697. Prlvatonun eonvontio juri publico non derogat. The agreement More...
  • PRIVATUM
    Lat Private. just private law. Inst 1, 1, 4. Privatum eommodnm publico oedlt. Private good yields to public. Jenk. Cent p. 223, case SO. The interest of an individual should give place to the public good. Id. Privatum inoommodum publico bono pensatur. Private inconvenience is made up for by public More...
  • PRIVEMENT ENCEINTE
    Fr. Pregnant privately. The term is applied to a woman who is pregnant, but not yet quick "with child". . j
  • PRIVIES
    Persons connected together, or having a mutual Interest In the same action or thing, by some relation other than that of actual contract between them; persons whose interest in an estate is derived from the contract or conveyance of others. Those who are partakers or have an interest in any More...
  • PRIVIGNA
    step-daughter. "(1) Privies of blood; such as the heir to his ancestor." "(2) Privies in representation; as executors or administrators to their deceased testator or intestate." "(3) Privies in estate; as grantor and grantee, lessor and lessee, assignor and assignee, etc." "(4) Privities, in respect of contract, are personal privities, More...
  • PRIVIGNUS
    Lat. In the civil law. A son of a husband or wife by a former marriage; a step-son. Calvin.
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