Portrait
Defined in 1 dictionary — Bouvier (1914)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A picture of a person painted from life or from reasonable materials, if there are such, from which a likeness can be framed; or a picture painted after a man’s death and meant to represent him. If there is nothing affording the materials for the portrait, it is completely an ideal one and cannot properly be called a portrait; Lord Lyndhurst, in 14 L, J. Oh. 73. P0RTSALES. Auctions were anciently so called, because they took place In ports. P0RTS0KA, or PORTSOKEN. Any place within the jurisdiction of a city. Cowell.