Relating or pertainlng to the body, as distlngulshed from the mlnd or soul or the emotions; materlal. substantive, havlng an objective existence, as dlstingulsh
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A practitioner of medi-dne; a person duly authorized or licensed to treat diseases; one lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine, without reference to any particular school. State v. Beck, 21 R. I. 288, 43 Atl. 366, 45 L. R. A. 269 ; Raynor v. State, 62 wis. 289, 22 N. W. 430; Nelson r. State Board of Health, 108 Ky. 760, 57 8. W. 501, 50 L. R. A. 383
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Any person who makes for sale photographs, ambrotypes, dagnerrotypes, or pictures, by the action of light Act Cong. July 13, 1866, J 9; 14 St at Large, 129
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In medical jurisprudence. An inflammation of the velns, which may originate in septicaemia (bacterial blood-poisoning) or pyaemia (poisoning from pus), and is capable of beiug transmitted to other tissues, as, the brain or the muscular tissue of the heart In the latter case, an infiam-mation of the heart is produced which is called “endocarditis” and which may result fatally. See Succession of Bidwell, 52 La. Ann. 744, 27 South. 281
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A lawyer who is em* ployed in a small or mean business, or who carries on a disreputable business by unprln-clpled or dishonorable means
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Small, minor, of less or incon-siderable Importance. The English form of “petit,” and sometimes used instead of that word in such compounds as “petty jury,” “petty larceny,” and “petty treason.” See Petit
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Lat in Roman law. I request A common word hy whlch a fldeicommis-sum, or trust, was created in a will. Inst 2, 24, 3
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The cred-ltor at whose Instance an adjudication of bankruptcy is made agalnst a bankrupt
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A droitural ac-tion ; that is,, one in which the plaintiff seeks to establlsh and enforce, by an approprl-ate legal proceedlng, his right of property, or his title, to the subject-matter in dispute; ss distinguished from a possessory action, where the right to the possession is the point in litigation, and not the mere right of property. The term is chiefly used in admiralty. 1 Kent. Comm. 371; The Tilton, 5 Mason, 465, Fed. Cas. No. 14,054
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A written address, embodying an application or prayer from the persou or persons preferring it, to the power, body, or person to whom it is presented, for the exercise of hls or their authority in the re-dress of some wrong, or the grant of some favor, privilege, or license
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one who presents a petition to a court, officer, or legislative body. In legal proceedings begun by petition, the person against whom action or relief is prayed, or who opposes the prayer of the pe-tition. is called the “respondent.”
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Lat. In tbo civil law. The plaintiff’s statement of his cause of action to an action in rem. Calvin
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In logic. Beg-glng the question,, which is the taking of a thing for true or for granted, and drawing conclusions from it as such, when it is really dubious, perhaps false, or at least wants to be proved, before any inferences ought to be drawn from it
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Fr. Small; minor? inconsider-able. Used in several compounds, and sometimes written “petty.”
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Used in contradistino-tion from the grand assize, which was a jury to decide on questions of property. Petits assize, a jury to decide on questions of possession. Britt, c. 42; Glan. lib. 2, cc. 6, 7
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Lat. In old English law. A demandant; the plaintiff in a real action. Bract, fols. 102, 106b
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An ancient levy or tax of a penny on each house throughout Eng-Iand, paid to the pope. It was called “Peter-pence,” because collected on the day of St. Peter, ad vincula; by tbe Saxons it was called “Rome-feoh,” “Rome-scot,” and “Rome-pennying,” because collected and sent to Rome; and, lastly, it was called “hearth money,” because every dwelllng-house was liable to lt, and every religious house, the abbey of St Albans alone excepted, whar-ton
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Mast of oaks, etc., or money taken for mast, or feeding hogs. Cowell
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Merchandise which takes up a good deal of room in a ship. Cowell
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In England. A toll charged for weighing avoirdupois goods other than wool. 2 Chit. Com. Law, 16
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In Spanish law. Coroner. whlte, New Recop. b. 1, tlt 1, I 3
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