Lat. In the clvll law. To follow after; to pursue or claim in form of law. An actlon is called a “jus persequendi
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Purchase. Acqulsltion by one’s own act or agreement, and not hy descent
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In old English law. A purchaser; one who first acquired an estate to his famlly; one who acquired an estate by sale, by gift, »r by any other method, except only that of descent 2 Bl. Comm. 220
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That fiction of the English law which for certain political purposes ascribes to the king in hls political capacity the attribute of immortali-ty; for, though the reigning monarch may die, yet by this fiction tbe king never dies, i. c., tbe office is supposed to be reoccupied for all political purposes immediately on bis death. Brown
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In Its most extensive sense, “perquisites” signifies anything obtalh-ed by industry or purchased with money, dif
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A future limitation, whether executory or by way of remainder, and of either real or personal property, which is not to vest until after the expiration of or will not necessarily vest wlthln the period fixed and prescribed by law for the creation of future estates and interests, and which is not destructible by the persons for the time being entitled to the property subject to the future limitation, except with the concur-rence of the individual interested under that limitation. Lewis, Perp. 164; 52 Law Llb. 139
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Generally, this term denotes the person who actually commits a crime or delict, or by whose immediate agen-cy it occurs. But, where a servant of a railroad company is killed through the negligence of a co-employe, the company itself may be regarded as the “perpetrator” of the act, within the meaning of a statute giving an action against the perpetrator. Philo v. Illinois Cent. R. Co., 33 Iowa, 47
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Never ceasing; continu-ous; enduring; lasting; unlimited in respect of time; continuing without intermission or interval. See Scanlan v. Crawshaw, 5 Mo. App. 337
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L. Fr. A taker. Le per-nour ou le detenour, the taker or the detain-er. Britt, c. 27
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Taking; a taking or re* ceiving; as of the profits of an estate. Actu-al pernancy of the profits of an estate is the taking, perception, or receipt of the rents and other advantages arising therefrom. 2 Bl. Comm. 163
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He who receives the profits of lands, etc.; he who has the actual pernancy of tbe profits
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The exchange of one movable subject for another; barter
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A writ to an ordi-nary, commanding him to admit a clerk to a benefice upon exchange made with another. Reg. orig. 307
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A license or Instrument grant-ed by the officers of excise, (or customs,) certifying that the duties on certain goods
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Lat. In the civil law. Exchange.; barter. Dig. 19, 4
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Negations of law, arising either from the law’s silence or lts ex-press declaration. Ruth. Inst. b. 1, c. 1
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Fixed, enduring, abiding, not subject to change. Generally opposed in law to “temporary.”
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A license to do a thing; an authority to do an act which, without such authority, would have been unlawful
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In criminal law. The wlllful assertion as to a matter of fact, oplnlon, belief, or knowledge, made by a witness in a judicial proceedlng as part of his evidence, either upon oath or in nny form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, whether such evidence is given in open court, or In an affidavit, or otherwise, such assertion being known to such witness to be false, and being intended by him to mislead the court, Jury, or person holding the proceeding. 2 whart. Crim. Law, g 1244; Herring v. Stnte, 119 Ga. 709, 46 S. E. 876; Beecher v. Anderson, 45 Mich. 543, 8 N. W. 539; Schmidt v
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Recurring at fixed Inter- . vals; to be made or done, or to happen, at successive periods separated by determined intervals of time; as periodical payments of interest on a bond
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Circumlocution; use of many words to express the sense of one
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