in practice
Defined in 2 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922)
United States Code
8 U.S.C. § 1288 — in this section
For purposes of this subsection, the term “in practice” refers to an activity normally performed in such country during the one-year period preceding the arrival of such vessel into the United States or coastal waters thereof.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The chasm or interruption in proceedings occasioned by the failure of the plaintiff to continue the suit regularly from time to time, as he ought. 3 Bl. Comm. 296.
Defined under Discontinuance in The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary.