Law Dictionary

The term "private security officer"— (A) means an individual other than an employee of a Federal, State, or local government, whose primary duty is to perform security se

the term “private settlement agreement” means an agreement entered into among the parties that is not subject to judicial enforcement other than the reinstatement of the civil proc

“private settlement lands” means approximately nine hundred acres of privately held land outlined in red in the map marked “Exhibit A” attached to the Settlement Agreement that are

A statute which operates only upon particular persons and private concerns. 1 Bl. Comm. 86. See "General Statute."

A non-navigable creek oi water-course, the bed or channel of which is exclusively owned by a private individual. See Adams v. Pease. 2 Conn. 484; Reynolds v. Com., 93 Pa461.

in case of public nuisance, where a bill is filed by a private person, asking for relief by way of prevention, the plaintiff cannot maintain a stand in a court of equity; unless he

It would be a perversion of language, considering the sense in which it is used in the statute, to say that a man was engaged in the transportation of water whenever he pumped a pa

One established or created for the banefit of a certain designated individual or individuals, or a known person or class of persons, clearly identified or capable of identification

the term “private viewing” means the viewing for private use in an individual's dwelling unit by means of equipment, owned or operated by such individual, capable of receiving sate

The term “private voluntary organization” means a not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization (in the case of a United States organization, an organization that is exempt from Fed

One between private persons, lawfully exerted by way of defense, but otherwise unknown in civil society. People v. McLeod, 25 Wend. (N. Y.) 576, 37 Am. Dec. 328.-

Non-navigable streams, or bodies of water not open to the resort and use of the general public, but' entirely owned and controlled by one or more individuals.

An easement of one person, or of any number of persons less than the public at large, to pass over the servient land of another in the manner, at the times, on the location, and fo

A private wrong, otherwise termed a "tort" or "civil injury," is an infringement or privation of the civil rights which belong to individuals, considered merely as individuals. 4 B

A taking away or withdrawing. Co. Litt. 239. PRIVEMENT ENCEINTE (L. Fr.). A term used to signify that a woman is pregnant, but not quick with child. See Wood, Inst. 6G2; Enceinte;

A deprivation presupposes a possession. 2 Rolle, 419. doubt that the rights of others cannot be prejudiced by private agreements. Dig. 2. 15. 3. pr.; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed

2 Rolle, 419. A deprivation presupposes a possession.

There is no doubt that the right of others is not injured by private agreements.

There ls no doubt that the rights of others [third parties] cannot be prejudiced by private agreements. Dig. 2, 15, 3, pr.; Broom, Max. 697.

The term “privatization” means the transfer of ownership of the Corporation to private investors.

The term “privatization date” means the date on which 100 percent of the ownership of the Corporation has been transferred to private investors.

An agreement of private persons cannot derogate from public right.

The agreements of private persons cannot derogate from common right.

Lat. Private. Privatum jus, private law. Inst. 1, 1, 4.

Private convenience yields to public welfare.

Private inconvenience is compensated by public good. See 139 N. C. 219, 3 L. R. A. (N. S.) 997, 51 S. E. 992.

A private person or individual. Privatorum conventio juri publico non derogat, l. Lat. An agreement of private individuals does [can] not derogate from public or common right [or c

I /r. Privately; privily; secretly; not visibly. Privemenf enceint: secretly pregnant; not known or observed to be so.

Pregnant in the first stages.

fr. Privily [not visibly] Privies: v. Priviti/.

By privies are meant heirs, executors, administrators, terre-tenants, or those having an interest in remainder or reversion, or one who is made a party by the law. 7 Ency. of PI. &

Lat In the civil law. A step-daughter.

A step-son.

It contains the essential idea of a peculiar benefit or advantage, of a special exemption from a burden falling upon others.

WRIT OF. A process to enforce or maintain a privilege. Cowell.

The privilege belongs to the Government and must be asserted by it; it can neither be claimed nor waived by a private party. It is not to be lightly invoked. There must be formal c

The constitutional privilege against self-incrimination is essentially a personal one, applying only to natural individuals. It grows out of the high sentiment and regard of our ju

The constitutional privilege relates to the adjective law. It does not relieve one from compliance with the substantive obligation to surrender property.

The privilege is not ordinarily dependent upon the nature of the proceeding in which the testimony is sought or is to be used. It applies alike to civil and criminal proceedings, w

Possessing or enjoying a privilege; exempt from burdens; entitled to priority or precedence, —Privileged Communications. See Communication. —Privileged copyholds. See Copyhold. —.P

The term “privileged belligerent” means an individual belonging to one of the eight categories enumerated in Article 4 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisone

One made when the occasion on which the communication was made rebuts the inference prima facie arising from a statement prejudicial to the character of the plaintiff and puts it u

ter in which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contain crimi

Those copyholds which are held according to the customs of the manor, and not according to the will of the lord. They include ancient demesne and customary freehold. 2 Wooddeson, L

Preferred claims against the estate of a bankrupt or a decedent.

In Scotch law. An instrument, for example, a testament, in the execution of which certain statutory formalities usually required are dispensed with, either from necessity or expedi

In the law of evidence. A communication made to a counsel, solicitor, or attorney, in professional confidence, and which he is not permitted to divulge ; otherwise called a "confid

The so-called privileged vessel has no absolute right to keep her course and speed regardless of the danger involved in that action. Her right to maintain her privilege ends when t

In old English law. A species of villenage in which the tenants held by certain and determinate services; otherwise called "villein socage." Bracton, fol. 209. Now called "privileg

In old English law. A species of villenage in which the tenants held by certain and determinate services; otherwise called "villein-soeage." Bract, fol. 209. Now called "privileged

The privilege fee is an excise tax, not upon the right to be a corporation, but upon the activities of the corporation in the exercise of its corporate franchise, or, as it is some

Privilege from arrest on civil process. It is either permanent, as in case of diplomatic representations and their servants, the royal family and servants, peers and peeresses, etc

The privilege which is asserted here is the privilege of the court, rather than of the defendant. It is founded in the necessities of the judicial administration, which would be of

a state tax upon a corporation doing only an interstate business may be invalid under our decisions because levied (1) upon the privilege of doing interstate business within the st

They delegated to the United States the exclusive power to tax the privilege to engage in interstate commerce when they gave Congress the power 'To regulate Commerce with foreign N

The privilege of silence is solely for the benefit of the witness and is deemed waived unless invoked.

The privilege of use is only one attribute, among many, of the bundle of privileges that make up property or ownership.

Privilege of voting is not derived from the United States, but is conferred by the state and, save as restrained by the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments and other provisions of

the distinction has long been taken between a privilege or franchise granted by the government to a private corporation in order to effect some governmental purpose, and the proper

It was undoubtedly the object of the clause in question to place the citizens of each State upon the same footing with citizens of other States, so far as the advantages resulting

The primary purpose of this clause, like the clauses between which it is located—those relating to full faith and credit and to interstate extradition of fugitives from justice—was

those rights and privileges which, under the laws and Constitution of the United States, are incident to citizenship of the United States, but does not include rights pertaining to

A corporation does not possess the privileges and immunities of a citizen of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution.

the privileges and immunities clause protects all citizens against abridgement by states of rights of national citizenship as distinct from the fundamental or natural rights inhere

such delayed service constitutes the furnishing of additional 'privileges or facilities' under §6(7) of the Interstate Commerce Act

Respondent is not taxed upon the privilege of engaging in interstate commerce... in Ozark Pipe Line Corporation v. Monier, the tax was held to be bad as one imposed 'upon the privi

11 Coke, 88. Privileges which are truly in prejudice of public good have, however, a more specious front and pretext of publlc good than good and legal grants; but, under pretext o

Privilege, which see.

Benefit of clergy, which see.

Privilege as against the state is of no avail.

A privilege is a personal benefit and is extinguished with the person.

A privilege is, as it were, a private law.

A privilege is not valid as against the state.

A qualified property in animals feræ natures; i. e., a privilege of hunting, taking, and killing them, in exclusion of others. 2 Bl. Comm. 394; 2 Steph. Comm. 9.

mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.

The relationship which subsists between two contracting parties. From the nature of the covenant entered into by him, a lessee has both privity of contract and of estate; and thoug

Identity of title to an estate. The relation which subsists between a landlord and his tenant. It is a general rule that a termor cannot transfer the tenancy or privity of estate b

To establish this, the later occupant must enter under the prior one, and must obtain his possession either by purchase or deed. When the possession is actual, it may commence in p

One who is a partaker or has any part or interest in any action, matter, or thing. Co. Litt. 271a. One who has an interest in an estate created by another, or in a contract or conv

Connected with; concerned with; private. Privy verdict: a verdict given privily to the judge out of court, but of no force unless afterwards affirmed by a verdict in open court. In

The chief council of the sovereign, called, by pre-eminence, "The Council," composed of those whom the king appoints. 1 Bl. Comm. 229-232. By St. Charles II., in 1679, the number w

A member of the privy council.

By the express provisions of the law, it is not the fact of privy examination merely, but the recording of the fact, which makes the deed effectual to pass the estate of a feme cov

Susan, the child, was a privy in blood to the mother, (being her heir, if free,) and as such heir, comes within the rule laid down in Davis v. Wood

The income set apart for the sovereign’s personal use.

In English law. A seal which the king uses to such grants or things as pass the great seal. 2 Inst. 554.

The seal which is first used in making grants, etc., of the crown. It is always in custody of the secretary of state. 2 Bl. Comm. 347; 1 Wooddeson, Lect. 250; 1 Steph. Comm. 571.

By stat. 33 Henry VIII. c. 1, punishment is provided against those evil-disposed persons who devised how they might unlawfully get into their possession goods, chattels, and jewels

In practice. A verdict given privily to the judge out of court, but which was of no force unless afterwards affirmed by a public verdict given openly in court. 3 Bl. Comm. 377. l^w

Prize is generally used as a technical term to express a legal capture; and Congress having adopted it in framing of the ordinance, the general sense or acceptation of it must dete

in ordinary use the words 'prizes and capture' refer, doubtless, to captures on water as maritime prize; but in the section under consideration here they plainly refer to property

The term “prize competition” means the competition for the award of the Genius Prize for Save Our Seas Innovations established under section 1972 of this title . / The term "p

In English law. That branch of admiralty which adjudicates upon cases of maritime captures made in time of war. A special commission issues in England, in time of war, to the judge

The fact of capture determines the jurisdiction, and not the filing of a libel. When captured as prize of war the property is in the custody of the law, and remains there to await

It is the established rule in courts of prize, that the evidence to acquit or condemn must, in the first instance, come from the papers and crew of the captured ship. On this accou

Courts having jurisdiction to adjudicate upon captures made at sea in time of war, and to condemn the captured property as prize if lawfully subject to that sentence. In England, t

A personal combat between men, without weapons, in public and by agreement, for a prize or reward. 67 Miss. 352.

Goods which are taken on the high seas, jure belli, out of the bands of the enemy. The Adeline, 9 Cranch, 244, 284, 3 In Ed. 719.

The general rule is undeniable, that the trial of captures made on the high seas, jure belli, by a duly commissioned vessel of war, whether from an enemy or a neutral, belongs excl

'The system of laws and rules applicable to the capture of prize at sea; its condemnation, rights of the captors, distribution of the proceeds, etc. The Buena Ventura (D. Ct) 87 Fe