Law Dictionary

The term “placed in service” means operated at more than 50 percent of the estimated operational capacity.

Lands granted in aid ol a railroad company which are within certain limits on each side of the road, and which become instantly fixed by the adoption of the line of the road. There

One who exercises a public employment or fills a public station.

the term “placement” means the placement of an unaccompanied alien child in either a detention facility or an alternative to such a facility; and

As used in this subsection, the term “placement decision” means the decision to place, or to delay or deny the placement of, a child in a foster care or an adoptive home, and inclu

By place of abode is usually meant the place of residence. A man's residence, where he lives with his family and sleeps at night, is always his place of abode in the full sense of

A hall containing a stage whereon a nightly programme of music, vocal and instrumental, is rendered is a place of amusement; Gartenstein’s License, 4 D. R. (Pa.) 37; and a dance ha

The place where a man usually transacts his affairs or business. A place of business is a place actually occupied, either continually or at regular intervals, by a person, or those

See "Lex Loci."

The place where goods sold are to be delivered. If no place is specified in the contract they must, generally, be delivered at the place where they are at the time of the sale. Hat

The statutory language 'place of entertainment' should be given full effect according to its generally accepted meaning and applied to recreational areas.

They relate to the principal dwelling place of a person

The place of payment in a promissory note, or in an acceptance of a bill of exchange, is always matter of arrangement between the parties for their mutual accommodation, and may be

The term “place of primary use” means the street address representative of where the customer’s use of the mobile telecommunications service primarily occurs, which must be— (A) th

“place of public accommodation affecting commerce” means any inn, hotel, or other establishment not owned by the Federal Government that provides lodging to transient guests, excep

the term “place of public use” has the meaning given that term under section 2332f(e)(6) of title 18 . / “place of public use” has the meaning given the term in section 2332f(e)(6)

the child's country of residence, especially in light of the Convention's explicit purpose to prevent wrongful removal across international borders.

See Mines and Mining. PLACET (Fr.). The name of a document in French practice requesting an audience of the court. Outside of Paris the request is made verbally, in Paris the avout

ground within defined boundaries which contains mineral in its earth, sand, or gravel; ground that includes valuable deposits not in place, that is, not fixed in rock, but which ar

A placer elaim located aad occupied on the public domain.

Those in which the mineral is generally found in the softer material which covers the earth’s surface, and not in the rocks beneath. See 116 U. S. 687, 29 L. Ed. 774, 6 Sup. Ct. Re

I I. In old English law. A place, as applied to a house; as applied to lands, a piebe or parcel. Placeta messuagii: a place of messuage. Placeta pasture: a piece of pasture.

The convening order of the court. 63 111. 497. PLACITA COMMUNIA (Lat.) Common pleas. All civil actions between subject and PLACITA CORONAE (Lat.) Pleas of the crown. All trials for

Pleadable.

Common pleas, which see.

Chief justice for holding pleas before the king. e title of the chief justice of the king’s bench, first assumed in the latter part of the reign of Henry III. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 91

Chief justice for holding pleas before the king. The title of the chief justice of the king’s bench, first assumed in the latter part of the reign of Henry Ill. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law,

Pleas of the crown. All trials for crimes and misdemeanors, Wherein the king is plaintiff, on behalf of the people. 3 Bl. Comm. 40.

Pleas of the crown; criminal actions.

2 Inst. 311. Pleas of trespass against the peace of the king in the kingdom of England, made with force and arms, ought not, by the law and custom of England, to be pleaded without

Rules of law.

Pleading.

An obsolete writ to prohibit officers of court from taking fines for fair pleading.

Two negative pleas do not form an issue. Lofft, 415.

Two negative pleas do not make an issue.

To plead.

A pleader.

Decree; determination.

Relating to pleas or pleading.

Singular of Placita.

Co. Litt. 284. Pleas [i. e., actions] are personal, real, and mixed.

A day past or lost to the defendant. 1 Hen. I. c. 59.

The day appointed for a criminal to appear and plead and make his defense. Cowell.

1 1. In old English law. The pleading of a cause.

A wound.

The act of appropriating the ideas and language of another, and passing them for one's own. When this amounts to piracy, the party who has been guilty of it will be enjoined when t

One who publishes the thoughts and writings of another as his own.

A kidnapper; a slave thief.

Kidnapping.

Pestilence; a contagious and malignant fever.

A pleader.

suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the Courts of the United States in any case where plain, adequate, and complete remedy can be had at law... does not apply where

In exceptional circumstances, especially in criminal cases, appellate courts, in the public interest, may, of their own motion, notice errors to which no exception has been taken,

See Homagium planum .

The information required to be submitted under subparagraph (A) shall be provided in plain language. The term “plain language” means language that the intended audience, including

in many circumstances to assure that the proper balance between secrecy and disclosure is struck.

jurisdiction, as distinguished from merits, is wanting where the claim set forth in the pleading is plainly unsubstantial. The federal question averred may be plainly unsubstantial

It is elementary that the meaning of a statute must, in the first instance, be sought in the language in which the act is framed, and if that is plain, and if the law is within the

for the redress of Griffin's constitutional claims, the District Court should not have granted injunctive relief.

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. 6 Sandf. Ch. (N. Y.) 557, 564.

where the Legislature makes a plain provision, without making any exception, the courts of justice can make none, as it would be legislating to do so

In EInglish law. The exhibiting of any action, real or personal, in writing. The party making his plaint is called the plaintiff.

Looked at as a whole, the Iowa statutes provide a process by which railroads and others may acquire land for their purposes which the owner refuses to sell. ... The intent of the r

In condemnation proceedings the words 'plaintiff' and 'defendant' can be used only in an uncommon and liberal sense. The plaintiff complains of nothing. The defendant denies no pas

Plaintiff class action.—The term “plaintiff class action” means a class action in which class members are plaintiffs.

A party who sues out a writ of error; and this, whether in the court below he was plaintiff or defendant.

The complaining party in an action at law; the party bringing an action, and so named on the record. Plaintiff in error: the party who sues out a writ of error.

objects falling in the plain view of an officer who has a right to be in the position to have that view are subject to seizure and may be introduced in evidence.

the disclosures that constituted the summary plan descriptions.

The term “plan administrator” has the meaning given such term by section 414(g). / For purposes of this part, the term “plan administrator” means— (1) the person specifically so de

In the case of a plan which the Secretary of Labor finds to be collectively bargained, established or maintained by an employer doing business in not less than 40 States and engage

a "confirmed plan" — meaning one that has been confirmed in the past.

For purposes of clause (ii), the term "plan loan offset amount" means the amount by which the participant's accrued benefit under the plan is reduced in order to repay a

The term “planned refinery outage” means a removal, scheduled before the date on which the removal occurs, of a refinery, or any unit of a refinery, from service for maintenance, r

Planning agency.—The term “planning agency” means any city, county, bi-county, part-county, or regional planning agency authorized under state and local laws to make and adopt comp

The term "planning and service area" means an area designated by a State agency under section 3025(a)(1)(E) of this title, including a single planning and service area de

The term "Planning Board" means the Puerto Rico Planning Board, a board within the executive branch of the Government of Puerto Rico established by Puerto Rico Act 75–197

"Planning Commission" means the Joint Federal-State Land Use Planning Commission established by section 1616 of this title;

The term “planning process” means actions taken by a locally led council to develop and carry out an effective area plan in a designated area, including development of the area pla

The term “planning product” means a decision, analysis, study, or other documented information that is the result of an evaluation or decisionmaking process carried out by a metrop

The term “planning region” means a region described in subparagraph (B) or (C) of section 3121(a)(2) of this title , subject to section 3122(c)(4)(B)(i) of this title .

The term "plan of action" means any of 1 or more documented methods adopted by participants in an existing voluntary agreement to implement that agreement.

Plan of action and milestones.—The term “plan of action and milestones”, means a plan used as a basis for the quarterly reporting requirements of the Office of Management and Budge

“Plan of operation and administration” means a document that describes the manner in which the State agency intends to implement and operate the program.

certain waivers of sovereign immunity to which all States implicitly consented at the founding.

The term “plan or report” means any plan or report submitted to Congress, any committee of Congress, or subcommittee thereof, by not less than 1 agency— (A) in accordance with Fede

The term “plan sponsor” includes any member of the plan sponsor's controlled group (as defined in section 412(d)(3)). / The term “plan sponsor” means, with respect to any multiempl

The term “plant” means any plant (including any plant part) for or capable of propagation, including a tree, a tissue culture, a plantlet culture, pollen, a shrub, a vine, a cuttin

I In the civil law. Planting; one of the modes of acquiring property by accession.

A farm; a place planted. See 38 Cal. 291.

In English Law. Colonies; dependencies. 1 Bl. Comm. 107. If this use of the term was ever current in America, it is now obsolete. See 7 Conn. 201. In England, this word, as it is u

the term “plant closing” means the permanent or temporary shutdown of a single site of employment, or one or more facilities or operating units within a single site of employment,

The term “plant equipment package” means a complement of active and idle machine tools and other industrial manufacturing equipment held by and under the control of the Department

The term "plant health management strategy" means a strategy to timely control and eradicate a plant disease or plant pest outbreak, including through mitigation (such as

the term “planting” includes watering, application of fertilizer and herbicides, pruning and shaping, and other subsequent care and maintenance for a period of three years after th

“plant pest” means any living stage of any insects, mites, nematodes, slugs, snails, protozoa, or other invertebrate animals, bacteria, fungi, other parasitic plants or reproductiv

The term “plant product” means— (A) any flower, fruit, vegetable, root, bulb, seed, or other plant part that is not included in the definition of plant; or (B) any manufactured or

“Plant Quarantine Act” means the Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as from time to time amended.

The term “plant regulator” means any substance or mixture of substances intended, through physiological action, for accelerating or retarding the rate of growth or rate of maturati

The term “plant replacement value” means, with respect to a covered facility, the cost to replace the covered facility using amounts appropriated for facilities sustainment, restor