Permission

Leave or license to do any act. It ordinarily implies consent actually given (105 111. 658), but has been held to mean "allow," by not prohibiting (9 Allen [Mass.] 266).

A license to do a thing; Code 4. 64. 1; and that they are bound to an authority to do an act which without take back the things delivered when they such authority would have been unlawful. have latent defects which they have conceal- A permission differs from a law: it is a ed; Dig. 21. 1. 63. See Aso & M. Inst. b. check upon the operations of the law. 2, t. 16, c. 1; Mutation; Transfer. A negation of law, arising either from PERMUTATIONE.. A writ to an ordinary the law’s silence, or its express declaration. commanding him to admit a clerk to a bene- Ruth. Nat. L. b. 1, c. 1. fice upon exchange made with another. Express pci'missions derogate from some- Cowell. thing which before was forbidden, and may operate in favor of one or more persons, or PERNANCY (from Fr. prendre, to take). for the performance of one or more acts, or A taking or receiving, e. g. of rents. for a longer or shorter time. PERNOR OF PROFITS. He who receives Implied pwmissions are those which arise the profits of lands, etc. A cestui qui use, from the fact that the law has not forbidden who is legally entitled and actually does rethe act to be done. ceive the profits, is the pernor of profits.