Permanent
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Does not always embrace the idea of absolute perpetuity.
Hascall V. Madison University, 8 Barh. 174.
The phrase permanent abode means a domicile, a home, which a party is at liberty to leave as interest or whim may dictate, but which he has no present intention to change.
Dale v. Irwin, 78 III. 170.
The phrase permanent policy is not ambiguous, and means an insurance to continue from year to year, and until terminated by an express notice by one of the parties to the contract to the other.
First Baptist Church v. Brooklyn Fire Ins. Co., 23 How. Pr. 448.
To say that a clergyman has been settled permanently, means that he was called as continue to hold the place until one or the other of the contracting parties should desire to terminate the connection; in which case the dissatisfied party was to have the right to be relieved of further obligations to the other, upon fair and equitable terms, and after reasonable notice, and with the concurrence or approval of the ecclesiastical authority of the diocese.
Perry v. Wheeler, 12 Bush, 541.