Lat. In the clvll law. A son of a husband or wife by a former mar-rlage; a step-son. Calvin
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A particular and pecullar benefit or advantage enjoyed by a person, company, or class, beyond the common ad-vantages of other citizens. An exceptional or extraordinary power or exemption. A right, power, franchise, or immunity held by a person or class, against or beyond the course of the law
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Persons connected together, or having a mutual interest in the same action or thing, by some relation other than that of actual contract between them; persons whose interest in an estate is derived from the contract or conveyance of others
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Lat Private. Privatum jus, prlvate law. Inst 1, 1, 4
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Fr. Pregnant privately. The term is applied to a woman who is pregnant, but not yet quick with child. !
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A vessel owned, equipped, and armed by one or more private individ
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Affecting or belonging to pri-vate individuals, as distinct from the public generally. Not official
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As used in contradls-tinction to public law, the term means all that part of tbe law which is administered between citizen and citizen, or which is concerned with tbe definition, regulation, and enforcement of rights in cases where both the person in whom the right Inheres and the person upon whom the obligatlon is in-cident are private individuals. See Public Law
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A public building for the con-fiuement or safe custody of persons, whether as a punishment imposed by the law or other-wise in the course of the administration of Justice. See Scarborough v. Thornton, 9 Pa. 451; Sturtevant v. Com., 158 Mass. 598, 33 N. E. 648; Pen. Code N. Y. 1903, I 92
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Lu Fr. Ready. In the old forms of oral pleadlng, this term expressed a ten-der or joinder of Issue
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Fr. In French law. Prize; captured projierty. ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit. 9. See Dole v. Insurance Co., 6 Allen (Mass.) 373
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A legal preference or precedence. when two persons have similar rights in respect of the same subject-matter, but one is entitled to exercise his right to the exclusion of the other, he is said to have pri-ority
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An ancient hereditary reve-. nue of the crown, consisting in the right to take a certain quantity from cargoes of wine imported into England. In Edward I.’s reign it was converted Into a pecuniary duty called “butlerage.” 2 Steph. Comm. 561
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Lat The former; earlier; pre-ceding; preferable or preferred
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To the person first applying. In probate practice, where there are several persons equally entitled to a grant of administration, (e. g., next of kin of the same degree,) the rule of the court is to make the grant priori pctenti, to the first applicant. Browne, Prob. Pr. 174; Coote, Prob. Pr. 173, 180
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Fundamental truths or doctrines of iaw; comprehensive rules or doctrines which furnish a basis or origin for others; settled rules of action, procedure, or legal determination
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The art of Impressing let-ters; the art of makiug books or papers by impressing legible characters. Arthur v. Moller, 97 U. S. 365, 24 L. Bd. 1046; Le Roy v. Jamison, 15 Fed. Cas. 373; Forbes Litho-graph Mfg. Co. v. worthington (C. C.) 25
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Lat Principal; a prin-cipal debtor; a principal in a crime
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In patent law, the princi-ple of a machine is the particular means of producing a given result hy a mechanical con-trivance. Parker v. Stiles, 5 McLean, 44, 63, Fed. Cas. No. 10,749
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In English law. The eldest daughter of the sovereigu. 3 Steph. Comm. 450
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Chief; leading; highest in rank or degree; most lmportant or considerable; primary; original; the source of au-thority or rlght
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