Law Dictionary

I. I. In old English law.

It consists in the army of one judge advocate with the rank of brigadier general; two judge advocates with the rank of colonel; three with the rank of major, and for each geographi

This officer is appointed by the secretary of state; his duties are to attend to the business of the office under the superintendence of the secretary; and when the secretary shall

a member in such a syndicate, group, pool, joint venture, or organization.

Each partner is the agent of his copartners in all transactions relating to partnership business, and is forbidden to traffic therein for his own advantage, and if he does, will be

one partner, by virtue of the relation he bears to the firm, is constituted a general agent for another, as to all matters within the scope of the partnership dealings, and has con

one partner cannot apply the partnership funds or securities to the discharge of his own private debt without their consent; and that without their consent their title to the prope

The term “partner country” means any of the following: (A) Australia. (B) Canada. (C) New Zealand. (D) The United Kingdom. (E) Any other country designated as a partner country by

The term “partner government” means a government with which the United States is working to provide assistance to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, or malaria on behalf of people livi

The term “partner institution” means an institution of higher education, which may include a two-year institution of higher education offering a dual program with a four-year insti

That partners are individually responsible for torts by a firm when acting within the general scope of its business, whether they personally participate therein or not, we regard a

The term "partner organization" means any Federal agency participating in FLETC's training programs under a formal memorandum of understanding. / The term "partner o

By the general law of partnership, the act of each partner, during the continuance of the partnership and within the scope of its objects, binds all the others. It is considered th

a syndicate, group, pool, joint venture, or other unincorporated organization, through or by means of which any business, financial operation, or venture is carried on, and which i

The term “partnership adjustment” means any adjustment to a partnership-related item. / The term “partnership adjustment” means any adjustment in the amount of any partnership item

The term “partnership agreement” means an agreement between the Secretary and a partner. / The term “partnership agreement” means the programmatic agreement entered into between th

Property of any kind belonging to the firm as such (not the separate property of the individual partners) and available to the recourse of the creditors of the firm in the first in

One designed to continue for no fixed period of time, hut only during the pleasure of the parties, and which may be dissolved by any partner without previous notice.

Actual participation in the profits as principal, we think, creates a partnership as between the parties and third persons, whatever may be their intentions in that behalf, and not

One due from the partnership or firm as such and not (primarily) from one of the individual partners.

The fact remains as true as ever that partnership debts are debts of the members of the firm, and that the individual liability of the members is not collateral like that of a sure

In Louisiana law. Partnership,m commendam is formed by a contract by which one person or partnership agrees to furnish another person or partnership a certain amount, either in pro

In this subsection, the term "partnership intermediary" means an agency of a State or local government, or a nonprofit entity owned in whole or in part by, chartered by,

The term “partnership item” has the meaning given to such term by section 6231(a)(3).

It is well settled, that if a bill of exchange be drawn by one partner in the name of the firm, or if a bill drawn on the firm by their usual name and style, be accepted by one of

The term “partnership potential” has the meaning given the term in the commercial feasibility study of high-speed ground transportation conducted under section 1036 of the Intermod

The term “partnership program” means a program through which an adult volunteer, a public or private nonprofit organization, an institution of higher education, or a business assis

the property or effects of a partnership belong to the firm and not to the partners, each of whom is entitled only to a share of what may remain after payment of the partnership de

The real property belonging to the partnership is treated in equity as part of the partnership fund, and is disposed of and distributed the same as the personal assets.

The term “partnership-related item” means— (i) any item or amount with respect to the partnership (without regard to whether or not such item or amount appears on the partnership’s

The implied authority of each partner to dispose of the partnership funds strictly and rightfully extends only to the business and transactions of the partnership itself; and any d

A partner has a lien on the firm's assets for the repayment of his advances to the firm.

The term “part or product of a polar bear” means any polar bear part or product, including the gall bile and gall bladder.

The majority of the owners have a right to employ the ship in such voyages as they may please, giving a stipulation to the dissenting owners for the safe return of the ship, if the

The principle on which part payment takes a case out of the statute is, that the party paying intended by it to acknowledge and admit the greater debt to be due.

A part performance removes the bar of the statute, on the ground that it is a fraud for the vendor to insist on the absence of a written instrument, when he had permitted the contr

Whatever in fact is an integral or essential part of a completed locomotive, and all parts or attachments definitely prescribed by lawful order of the Interstate Commerce Commissio

The term “part supplier” means a manufacturer of motor vehicle equipment.

“part-time career employment” means part-time employment of 16 to 32 hours a week (or 32 to 64 hours during a biweekly pay period in the case of a flexible or compressed work sched

the term “part-time employee” means, with respect to a Member of the House of Representatives, an individual who is employed by the Member and whose normally assigned work schedule

“Part-time magistrate judge” shall mean a part-time United States magistrate judge; and

In maritime law. To leave a port; to be out of a port. To depart imports more than to sez, or set sail. A warranty in a policy that a vessel shall depart on or before a particular

Giving birth to a child.

Issue; a child.

The child of a legitimate bed does not know his mother any more certainly than his father.

Fortes. 42. The offspring of a legitimate bed knows not his mother more certainly than his father.

The issue is, we believe, universally considered as following the mother, unless they be separated from each other by the terms of the instrument which disposes of the mother.

one who is a 'real party in interest' although not a named party to the action.

[a] party entitled to a remedy; esp., a party whose personal, pecuniary, or property rights have been adversely affected by another person's actions or by a court's decree or judgm

This phrase signifies the contending parties in an action ; i. e., the plnin-ilff and defendant, as distingnished from the attorney and his client It la used in connection with the

“party-at-interest” means— (A) a foreign manufacturer, producer, or exporter, or a United States importer, of merchandise which is the subject of a final determination under sectio

It will suffice, we think, if the bill discloses that some definite legal right possessed by complainant is seriously threatened, or that the unauthorized and therefore unlawful ac

No rule is better established, than that a party, in an action at law, cannot be a witness in his own case.

A jury de medietate linguae (g. V.)

The Act does not define the term 'party'; but it does make clear that the role of the General Counsel is a major one. By § 3(d) of the Act he is given 'final authority' respecting

the organized switching of blocs of voters from one party to another in order to manipulate the outcome of the other party's primary election.

The term "Party State" means a State that has ratified the Compact. / The term “Party State” means a State that has ratified the Compact.

A structure separating buildings, stories, or rooms which belong to different owners, or which are approached by distinct staircases or separate entrances from without, whether the

Not every corporate broker, promoter, or agent which enters into a written agreement effectuating a reorganization, as defined in the Revenue Act, thereby becomes a party to the re

A phrase used in the seventeenth section of the Statute of Frauds, under which, In the case of certain sales, a note or memorandum of the contract must be In writing, ‘‘signed by t

it is a well settled principle, that no person who is a party to a negotiable instrument, shall be permitted, by his own testimony, to invalidate it... If an individual whose name

a person who has placed his name on a negotiable paper as a party to it, shall not afterwards, in a suit on such security, be competent as a witness to prove any fact which would t

the term “party to the export” means— (i) the president, the chief executive officer, and other senior officers of the license applicant; (ii) the freight forwarders or designated

The term “party to the International Criminal Court” means a government that has deposited an instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval, or accession to the Rome Statute, an

A wall erected on the line _ between two adjoining estates, belonging to different persons, for the use of both estates. 2 Bouv. Inst, note 1615. It is ordinarily owned in common b

Lat Little; but little.

Nature takes little heed. 2 Johns. Cas. (N. Y.) 127, 166.

In Roman law. He seems to have taken too little care. A form used by judges in pronouncing sentence. PARUM DIFFERUNT QUAE RE CONcordant. Things differ but little which agree in sub

Things differ little which accord in substance.

Nature takes little heed. Vandenheuvel v. United Ins. Ch, 2 Johns. Can. (N. Y.) 127, 166.

A sentence is not sufficiently comprehensive unless it is given execution.

It is little [or to little purpose] that judgment be given unless it be committed to execution. Co. Litt. 289.

It profits little to know what ought to be done if you do hot know how it ought to be done.

The term “par value” means— (A) in the case of stock, par value; (B) in the case of participation certificates and other equities and interests not described in subparagraph (C), f

Petty treason.

Petty serjeanty. See Serjeanty.

Petit serjeanty, which see.

An afternoon's exercise or moot for the instruction of young students, bearing the same name originally with the Par-visiœ (little-go) of Oxford. Wharton.

Petit cape, which see.

Precedence.

The passover; Easter.

Easter.

The octave of Easter, or Low-Sunday, which closes that solemnity.

The Sunday before Easter, called "Palm-Sunday."

A particular meadow or pasture land set apart to feed cattle.

The grazing or pasturage, of cattle.

A wooded pasture.

In English ecolesiastical law. Yearly tributes paid by the clergy to the bishop or archdeacon at their Easter visitations.

In Practice. To proceed; to be entered. A verdict or judgment is said "to pass for" a party where it is delivered in his favor. This term is directly taken from the old French pass

n. An authoritative or official writing, permitting a person restricted within limits, to go beyond the designated bounds. When a territory is in military occupation or under marti

Properly a way over water. Where a seaman shipped for a voyage to foreign parts, and at the termination of the voyage was provided with a passage to a port \yithin the United Kingd

An ancient court of record in Liverpool, once called the “mayor’s court of pays sar/c,” but now usually called the “court of the passage of the borough of Liverpool.” M. & W.

The sum claimable for the conveyance of a person, with or without luggage, on the water. The difference between freight and passage money Is this, that the former Is claimable for

I. I. In old English law. Passage; a passing over sea; a sum paid for being transported over sea, or over a river.

An ancient writ addressed to the keepers of the ports to permit a man who had the king's leave to pass over sea. Reg. Orig. 193. PASSAGIUM(Law Lat.; Law Fr. passage, from passer, t

A passage; a voyage.

A voyage or expedition to the Holy Land made by the kings of England in person. Cowell.

“Passamaquoddy Indian Reservation” means those lands as defined in the Maine Implementing Act;

“Passamaquoddy Indian Territory” means those lands as defined in the Maine Implementing Act;

“Passamaquoddy Tribe” means the Passamaquoddy Indian Tribe, as constituted in aboriginal times and all its predecessors and successors in interest. The Passamaquoddy Tribe is repre