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Portrait

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

A picture of a person painted from life or from reasonable materials, if there are such, from which a likeness can be framed; or a picture painted after a man’s death and meant to represent him. If there is nothing affording the materials for the portrait, it is completely an ideal one and cannot properly be called a portrait; Lord Lyndhurst, in 14 L, J. Oh. 73.

P0RTSALES.

Auctions were anciently so called, because they took place In ports.

P0RTS0KA, or PORTSOKEN.

Any place within the jurisdiction of a city.

Cowell.