practitioner
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
Definitions from Case Law
United States Supreme Court
a physician, dentist, veterinarian, scientific investigator, pharmacy, hospital, or other person licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted, by the United States or the jurisdiction in which he practices or does research, to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to, administer, or use in teaching or chemical analysis, a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research.
Defined by the Supreme Court in United States v. W Moore, 423 U.S. 122 (1975).
United States Code
21 U.S.C. § 802 — as used in this subchapter
The term “practitioner” means a physician, dentist, veterinarian, scientific investigator, pharmacy, hospital, or other person licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted, by the United States or the jurisdiction in which he practices or does research, to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to, administer, or use in teaching or chemical analysis, a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research.
42 U.S.C. § 10003 — for purposes of this chapter
“practitioner” means any licensed doctor of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, podiatry, or chiropractic, who prescribes radiologic procedures for other persons;
42 U.S.C. § 11151 — in this chapter
The terms “licensed health care practitioner” and “practitioner” mean, with respect to a State, an individual (other than a physician) who is licensed or otherwise authorized by the State to provide health care services.
42 U.S.C. § 1320A — for purposes of this section
The terms “licensed health care practitioner”, “licensed practitioner”, and “practitioner” mean, with respect to a State, an individual who is licensed or otherwise authorized by the State to provide health care services (or any individual who, without authority holds himself or herself out to be so licensed or authorized).
42 U.S.C. § 1395A — in this subchapter (8 versions over time)
The term “practitioner” has the meaning given such term by section 1395u(b)(18)(C) of this title.
42 U.S.C. § 1395M — in this section (23 versions over time)
The term “practitioner” has the meaning given that term in section 1395u(b)(18)(C) of this title and, in the case that the emergency period described in section 1320b–5(g)(1)(B) of this title ends before December 31, 2024, for the period beginning on the first day after the end of such emergency period and ending on December 31, 2027, shall include a qualified occupational therapist (as such term is used in section 1395x(g) of this title), a qualified physical therapist (as such term is used in section 1395x(p) of this title), a qualified speech-language pathologist (as defined in section 1395x(ll)(4)(A) of this title), and a qualified audiologist (as defined in section 1395x(ll)(4)(B) of this title).
42 U.S.C. § 280G — for purposes of this section (2 versions over time)
The term "practitioner" means a physician, dentist, veterinarian, scientific investigator, pharmacy, hospital, or other person licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted, by the United States or the jurisdiction in which the individual practices or does research, to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to, administer, or use in teaching or chemical analysis, a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
He who is engaged in Prwdial larceny is the larceny of things atthe exercise or employment of any art or tached to the land. 4 Journ. of Soc. of profession. Comp. Leg. N. S. 135. PR/ECEPTORS (Lat.). Heretofore mas- PR/E D I U M DOMINANS (Lat the ruling ters in chancery were so called, as having estate). In Civil Law. The name given to the direction of making out remedial writs. an estate to which a servitude is due; it is Fleta 76; 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law 251. A called the ruling estate. species of benelice, so called from being pos- PR/EDIUM RUSTICUM (Lat. a country sessed by the principal templars ( prcecep - estate). In Civil Law. By this is undertores tompli ), whom the chief master by his stood all heritages which are not destined authority created. 2 Mon. Ang. 543. for the use of man’s habitation; such, for example, as lands, meadows, orchards, gar- PR/ECIPE, PRECIPE (Lat.). A slip of dens, woods, even though they should be paper upon which the particulars of a writ within the boundaries of a city. are written. It is lodged in the office out of which the required writ is to issue. Whar- PR/EDIUM SERVIENS (Lat.). In Civil ton, Diet. A written order to the clerk of a Law. The name of an estate which suffers court to issue a writ or yields a service to another estate. It is a part of the record; the writ of PR/EDIUM URBANUM (Lat.). In Civil /Service, if it fail to follow it, may be amend- Law. By this term is Understood buildings or whether they be constructed in the country. PR/EFECTI APOSTOLICI. Officers of the same character as the Yicarius Apostolicus ( q. v.), but without the power of exercising episcopal functions. 2 Pliill. Int L. 529. PRyEFECTUS URBIS. An officer who had the superintendence of the city and its police with jurisdiction extending one hundred miles from the city and power to decide both civil and criminal cases. Whart. PR/EFECTUS VIGILIUM (Lat.). In Roman Law. The chief officer of the nightwatch. His jurisdiction extended to certain offences affecting the public peace, and even to larcenies. But he could inflict only slight punishments. PR/EMUNIRE (Lat). A statute of 27 Edw. III. which prohibited citations to the court of Rome; by it penalties were enacted against „all subjects who should “draw any out of the realm in plea, whereof the cognizance pertaineth to the king’s court” and who should fail to appear before the king and his council, or in his chancery, or before the justices to answer for the contempt committed. This was the origin of the offence afterwards known as prwmuniro from the words of the writ pramunire facias, requiring the sheriff to warn the accused to appear and answer. Taswell-Langmead, Engl. Constit. Hist. 323. The penalties of praemunire were subsequently applied to other offences of various kinds, as the molestation of possessors of abbey lands, the assertion that the houses of parliament have a legislative authority without the sovereign or the sending subjects of the realm into parts beyond the seas. Whart. Law Diet.; Jacob. It is said by Jacob to be a corruption of prermoneri, to be forewarned, citing Du Cange. lie also points out that there had been but one prosecution for prwmunire in the state trials (2 Hargr. St. Tr. 2G3). PR/ENOMEN. In Civil Law. See Cognomen. PR/ESTITA ROLLS. In these were entered the sums of money which issued out of the royal treasury, by way of imprest, advance, or accommodation, in the 12th year of King John; also roll of the 7th, and one of the 14th, 15th and 16th years of the same reign. See Recokd Commission (1814). PR/ESUMPTIO HO MIN IS. A presumption based upon what is probable in human experience, whereby, from a given fact or state of facts, another fact or state of facts may be naturally inferred. Morey, Rom. L. 411. PR AESUM'PTIO JURIS (Lat.). In Roman admits of proof to the contrary. A rebuttable presumption. An intendment of law which holds good until it is weakened by proof or a stronger presumption. Best, Pres. 29. PRyESUMPTIO JURIS ET DE JURE (Lat.). In Roman Law. A deduction drawn, by reason of some rule of law, from the existence of one fact as to the existence of another, so conclusively that no proof can be admitted to the contrary. A conclusive presumption.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910