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For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term “potentially abusive situation” means— (i) a tax shelter (as defined in section 6662(d)(2)(C)(ii)), and (ii) any other situation which, b

The Secretary shall identify the States with one or more potentially acceptable sites for a repository within 90 days after January 7, 1983. Within 90 days of such identification,

The term “potentially exposed or susceptible subpopulation” means a group of individuals within the general population identified by the Administrator who, due to either greater su

The term “potentially infectious medical waste” includes isolation wastes; infectious agents; human blood and blood products; pathological wastes; sharps; body parts; contaminated

“potentially responsible party” means an individual or entity that may be liable under any Federal or State authority that is being used or may be used to facilitate the cleanup an

Power is not conferred but for the public good.

Common possibility. See "Possibility."

Power; authority.

Power is strictly interpreted. Potestas suprema seipsum dissolvare potest, ligare non potest. Supreme power can dissolve itself, it cannot bind itself.

Supreme power can dissolve [unloose] but cannot bind itself. Branch, Princ.; Bacon.

et suis, Jus quod pro se introductum est. A man may relinquish, for himself and those claiming under him, a right which was introduced for his own benefit. See 1 Bouv. Inst, note 8

Bract. 20. One may relinquish for himself and his heirs a right which was introduced for his own benefit.

Anyone can renounce for himself and his (successors), a right which has been introduced in his behalf.

See Delictum, In pari, etc.

The condition of the defendant is the stronger. See 21 Wall. (U. S.) 441, 22 L. Ed. 623.

The condition of the defendant is the stronger. See 15 Pet. (U. S.) 471, 10 L. Ed. 800.

Better is the condition of the possessor. Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 201, note.

The term “potted flowering plants” means those plants that normally produce flowers, primarily produced in pots or similar containers, that are primarily used for interior decorati

Authority given by one person to another thority to dispose of an estate; authority of the ernment, as legislative, executive and judicial a near or common remote or improbable pro

Pot Tvallopera. Persons who cooked their own diet in a fireplace of their own, and were therefore, by the custom of some boroughs, entitled to vote.

A term formerly applied to voters in certain boroughs of England, where all who boil (wallop) a pot were entitled to vote. Webster. POULTRY COUNTER (or COMPTER). The name of a pris

A term formerly applied to voters in certain boroughs of England, where all who boil (wallop) a pot were entitled to vote. Webster.

The term “poultry” means chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and other domestic fowl; / The term “poultry” means any domesticated bird, whether live or dead.

One of the old London prisons.

The term “poultry grower” means any person engaged in the business of raising and caring for live poultry for slaughter by another, whether the poultry is owned by such person or b

The term “poultry growing arrangement” means any growout contract, marketing agreement, or other arrangement under which a poultry grower raises and cares for live poultry for deli

The term “poultry item” means— (A) a portion of poultry; and (B) a poultry product.

The term “poultry product” means any product or byproduct of the business of slaughtering poultry and processing poultry after slaughter; / The term “poultry product” means any pou

The term “poultry products broker” means any person engaged in the business of buying or selling poultry products on commission, or otherwise negotiating purchases or sales of such

Ex vi term Jvni is an enclosed piece of land, secured by a firm structure of stone, or of posts and timber, placed in the ground. 2 Cush. (Mass.) 309. A place, inclosed by public a

Engl. law. A place enclosed to keep in strayed animals.

money, the sum of twenty shillings. Previous to the establishment of the federal currency the different states made use of the pound in computing money; it was of different value i

In practice. The amount allowed to the sheriff, or other officer, for commissions on the money made by virtue of an execution. This allowance varies in different states, and to dif

The offense of breaking a pound in order to take out the cattle impounded. 3 Bl. Comm. 146. The writ de parco fracto, or pound breach, lies for recovering damages for this offense;

/. Founderous, out of repair.

An officer charged I with the care of a pound, and of animals confined there.

An uncertain quantity of land, said to be about fifty-two acres.

A precautionary stipuration inserted in a deed making a good tenant to the prweépe in a common recovery. See I Prest. Cony. 110.

common law, a denomination of money of Great Britain. To be computed in the ad valorem duty upon goods, &c. at the rate of four dollars and fortyfour cents. Act of March 2, 1799, s

Fr. In French law. The formula which a creditor prefixes to his signature when he gives a receipt.

For account of whom it may concern.

Fr. For account of whom it may concern.

In Fr. An ancient writ addressed to the mayor or bailiff of a city or town, requiring him to make proclamation concerning nuisances, etc. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 176.

In French law. The conversations and negotiations which have taken place between the parties in order to make an agreement. These form no part of the agreement. Pardessus, Dr. Com.

Partition, which see.

See Purpresture."

In old English law. An officer of the personage, who provided corn and other victual.

The four seas lying around England. Pourcher,y>'. To divide the essoin; to cause delay in a real action by casting essoins in turn where there was more than one tenant.

A writ for the seizure of lands held in dower by a widow of a tenant in capite in case of her marriage without royal consent.

A follower; a pursuer. In the ancient English law, it signified an officer who attended upon the king in his wars, at the council table, exchequer, in his court, etc., to be sent a

In old English law. The providing corn, fuel, victuals, and other necessaries for the king's house. Cowell.

Same as Purveyor.

A buyer; one who provided for the royal household.

or POISTEE (Scotch). In Scotch law. Power. 1 Pitc. Grim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 162. See "Liege Poustie." A word formed from the Latin potestas.

We cannot agree with the court below that one must be absolutely destitute to enjoy the benefit of the statute. We think an affidavit is sufficient which states that one cannot bec

A term used In a few states for an affidavit in forma pauperis. See "In Forma Pauperis."

The term “poverty level” means, with respect to a household in any State, the income poverty line as prescribed and revised at least annually pursuant to section 9902(2) of this ti

The term “poverty line” has the meaning provided in section 9902(2) of title 42. / The term “poverty line” means the poverty line (as defined in section 9902(2) of title 42 ) appli

the term “poverty line for a single individual” means such poverty line as established by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in accordance with section 9902(2) of

or PYPOWDERS. [L. Lat. wria pedis pulverizati,'] A court of record in England, incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owns or has the.toll of the market

in every case in which this doctrine was invoked and due process was found wanting, the prisoner sustained the burden of proving, or was prepared to prove but was denied opportunit

The right, ability, or faculty of ■ doing something. An authority by which one person enables another to do some act for him. 2 Lilly, Abr. 339. In a more technical sense, an autho

By the phrase 'coupled with an interest,' is not meant an interest in the exercise of the power, but an interest in the property on which the power is to operate. ... Taylor was to

A power which exists when the person to whom the power is given derives a present or future interest in the subject over which the power is to be exercised. See 31 Am. Dec. 508, no

“power-driven vessel” means any vessel propelled by machinery; and / The term “power-driven vessel” means any vessel propelled by machinery;

The term “power factor” means the power input divided by the product of ballast input voltage and input current of a fluorescent lamp ballast, as measured under test conditions spe

The term “power input” means the power consumption in watts of a ballast and fluorescent lamp or lamps, as determined in accordance with the test procedures specified in ANSI stand

this power of the trustees is not a general power but a power in trust exercisable as fiduciaries to carry out the purposes of the trust.

The term "power line" includes a transmission line or a distribution line, as applicable.

The term "power marketing administration" means— (A) the Bonneville Power Administration; (B) the Western Area Power Administration; and (C) any other power administratio

A power of administration is exercisable in a nonfiduciary capacity by any person without the approval or consent of any person in a fiduciary capacity. For purposes of this paragr

Personal property over which one has the power of appointment is not the property of the donee, but of the donor of the power. The appointee takes, not as the legatee of him who ap

while the feoffment of an idiot, or lunatic, is only voidable, his deed, and especially his power of attorney, are wholly void. A power of attorney executed by an insane person, or

Not only does the Constitution (art. 4, §3, cl. 2) commit to Congress the power 'to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting' the lands of the United States

That Congress, in exerting its power concerning the mails, has the comprehensive right to classify which it has exerted from the beginning, and therefore may exercise its discretio

Such an outstanding power residing exclusively in a donor to recall a gift after it is made is a limitation on the gift which makes it incomplete as to the donor as well as to the

The power of eminent domain can hardly be said to fall in that category [private property]. It is not a personal privilege; it is a special authority impressed with a public charac

It has a power of inquisition, if one chooses to call it that, which is not derived from the judicial function. It is more analogous to the Grand Jury, which does not depend on a c

Without the subpoena that power [to gather data and make investigations] is in effect a power of inspection at the employer's place of business to be exercised only on his consent.

the power of regulating the militia, and of commanding its services in times of insurrection and invasion, are (as it has been emphatically said they are) natural incidents to the

a power to a trustee to sell at public auction, after a certain public notice of the time and place of sale, includes the power regularly to adjourn the sale to a different time an

The power of taxation should not be confused with the power of eminent domain. Each is governed by its own principles.

All persons over fifteen, except the peers and the clergy. See 1 Bl. Comm, 343.

The term “powerplant” means a fossil-fuel fired electric generating unit which produces electric power for purposes of sale or exchange. / The terms “electric powerplant” and “powe

A power appendant is where a person has an estate in land, and the estate to be created by the power is to, or may, take effect in possession during the tenancy of the estate to wh

The powers of the cashier of a bank are such as are incident to, and implied in, his official character, as generally understood, as cash keeper, cash receiver, or payer, as negoti

“powers of self-government” means and includes all governmental powers possessed by an Indian tribe, executive, legislative, and judicial, and all offices, bodies, and tribunals by

The powers of the agent are, prima facie, coextensive with the business intrusted to his care, and will not be narrowed by limitations not communicated to the person with whom he d

express powers; any other mode of construction would do violence to the whole instrument, and overturn a whole series of decisions.

The power to coin money being thus given to Congress, founded on public necessity, it must carry with it the correlative power of protecting the creature and object of that power.

The power to require testimony is limited, as it usually is in English-speaking countries, at least, to the only cases where the sacrifice of privacy is necessary,—those where the

it is a general principle, that a power to convey lands must possess the same requisites, and observe the same solemnities, as are necessary in a deed directly conveying the lands.

the existence of power 'to exclude competition when it is desired to do so' is itself a violation of § 2, provided it is coupled with the purpose or intent to exercise that power.

From the beginning of the government, various acts have been passed conferring upon executive officers power to make rules and regulations,—not for the government of their departme

The possession of authority to enact the statute must be found in the clauses of the Constitution giving Congress power 'to declare war; * * * to raise and support armies, but no a

The word 'regulate' is one of broad import. It is the word used in the Federal Constitution to define the power of Congress over foreign and interstate commerce, and he who reads t

The power to regulate commerce is the power 'to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed'. It extends not only to those regulations which aid, foster and protect the

An adjustment of this sort under a power to regulate rates has to steer between Scylla and Charybdis. On the one side, if the franchise is taken to mean that the most profitable re

the profession of an attorney is of great importance to an individual, and the prosperity of his whole life may depend on its exercise. The right to exercise it ought not to be lig

the power to revest or to revoke an existing estate is discretionary with the donor