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Passive
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PassiveCommon law. All the sums of which one is a debtor. It is used in contradistinction to active. . By active debts are understood those which may be employed in furnishing assets to a merchant to pay those which he owes, which are called passive debts.
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Common
marriage law. a marriage in which no formal ceremony took place and no license exists.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Debtor
Debtor or obligor. The person who has engaged to perform some obligation. The word obligor, in its more technical signification, is applied to designate one who makes a bond.
Active
The opposite of passive. We say active debts, or debts due to us;passive debts are those we owe.
Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.
Assets
Cash, property and investments along with anything else that may be of value to a individual or business.
Merchant
One whose business it is to buy and sell merchandise; this applies to all persons who habitually trade in merchandise.
Passive
Common law. All the sums of which one is a debtor. It is used in contradistinction to active. . By active debts are understood those which may be employed in furnishing assets to a merchant to pay those which he owes, which are called passive debts.
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Pass
1) In the slave states this word signifies a certificate given by the master or mistress to a slave, in which it is stated that he is permitted to leave his home, with the authority of his master or mistress. The paper on which-such certificate is written is also called a pass. 2) practice. To be given, or entered; to proceed; as, let the judgment pass for the plaintiff.
Pass book
Common law. A book used by merchants with their customers, in which an entry of goods sold and delivered to a customer is made.
Passage
A way over water; a voyage made over the sea or great river; as, the Sea Gull had a quick passage: the money paid for the transportation of a person over the sea; as, my, passage to Europe was one hundred and fifty dollars.
Passage money
Contracts. The sum claimable for the conveyance of a person with or without luggage on the water.
Passenger
Cont. One who has taken a place. in a public conveyance, for the purpose of being transported from one place to another.
Passing off
When a trade or service mark is not registrable it may still be entitled to certain protection. Passing off is available where there is a prospect of confusion of identity through the unauthorised use of similar marks or get up, and such use damages, or is likely to damage the goodwill and reputation of a business. Unregistered marks and passing off can apply to virtually any name, mark, logo or get-up which distinguishes a company, business, product or service.
Passport
Passport, sea brief or sea letter. Maritime law. A paper containing a permission from the neutral state to the captain or master of a ship or vessel to proceed on the voyage proposed; it usually contains his name and residence; the name, property, description, tonnage and destination of the ship; the nature and quantity of the cargo; the place from whence it comes, and its destination; with such other matters as the practice of the place requires.
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Pass book
Common law. A book used by merchants with their customers, in which an entry of goods sold and delivered to a customer is made.
Passage
A way over water; a voyage made over the sea or great river; as, the Sea Gull had a quick passage: the money paid for the transportation of a person over the sea; as, my, passage to Europe was one hundred and fifty dollars.
Passage money
Contracts. The sum claimable for the conveyance of a person with or without luggage on the water.
Passenger
Cont. One who has taken a place. in a public conveyance, for the purpose of being transported from one place to another.
Passing off
When a trade or service mark is not registrable it may still be entitled to certain protection. Passing off is available where there is a prospect of confusion of identity through the unauthorised use of similar marks or get up, and such use damages, or is likely to damage the goodwill and reputation of a business. Unregistered marks and passing off can apply to virtually any name, mark, logo or get-up which distinguishes a company, business, product or service.
Passive
Passport
Passport, sea brief or sea letter. Maritime law. A paper containing a permission from the neutral state to the captain or master of a ship or vessel to proceed on the voyage proposed; it usually contains his name and residence; the name, property, description, tonnage and destination of the ship; the nature and quantity of the cargo; the place from whence it comes, and its destination; with such other matters as the practice of the place requires.
Pastures
Pastures. The land on which beasts are fed; and by a grant of pastures the land itself passes.
Patent
1) Constrction. That which is open or manifest. 2) Contracts. A patent for an invention is a giant made by the government of the United States to the inventor of any new or useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement in any art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter not known or used by others before his or their discovery or invention thereof, and not, at the time of his application for a patent, in public use or on sale, with his consent or allowance, as the inventor or discoverer; securing to him for a limited time, therein expressed, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used, the said invention or discovery, on certain conditions, among which is the one of at once giving up his secret and making public his discovery or invention, and the manner of making and using the same, so that at the expiration of his privilege, it may become public property.
Patent and trademark office
The federal agency which examines and issues patents and registers trademarks.
Patent french
The following points in relation to the patent laws of France will be found useful to those who have invented valuable machinery, and who are desirous of availing themselves of the patent laws of that country: -
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Common
marriage law. a marriage in which no formal ceremony took place and no license exists.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Debtor
Debtor or obligor. The person who has engaged to perform some obligation. The word obligor, in its more technical signification, is applied to designate one who makes a bond.
Active
The opposite of passive. We say active debts, or debts due to us;passive debts are those we owe.
Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.
Assets
Cash, property and investments along with anything else that may be of value to a individual or business.
Merchant
One whose business it is to buy and sell merchandise; this applies to all persons who habitually trade in merchandise.
Passive
Common law. All the sums of which one is a debtor. It is used in contradistinction to active. . By active debts are understood those which may be employed in furnishing assets to a merchant to pay those which he owes, which are called passive debts.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Pass
1) In the slave states this word signifies a certificate given by the master or mistress to a slave, in which it is stated that he is permitted to leave his home, with the authority of his master or mistress. The paper on which-such certificate is written is also called a pass. 2) practice. To be given, or entered; to proceed; as, let the judgment pass for the plaintiff.
Pass book
Common law. A book used by merchants with their customers, in which an entry of goods sold and delivered to a customer is made.
Passage
A way over water; a voyage made over the sea or great river; as, the Sea Gull had a quick passage: the money paid for the transportation of a person over the sea; as, my, passage to Europe was one hundred and fifty dollars.
Passage money
Contracts. The sum claimable for the conveyance of a person with or without luggage on the water.
Passenger
Cont. One who has taken a place. in a public conveyance, for the purpose of being transported from one place to another.
Passing off
When a trade or service mark is not registrable it may still be entitled to certain protection. Passing off is available where there is a prospect of confusion of identity through the unauthorised use of similar marks or get up, and such use damages, or is likely to damage the goodwill and reputation of a business. Unregistered marks and passing off can apply to virtually any name, mark, logo or get-up which distinguishes a company, business, product or service.
Passport
Passport, sea brief or sea letter. Maritime law. A paper containing a permission from the neutral state to the captain or master of a ship or vessel to proceed on the voyage proposed; it usually contains his name and residence; the name, property, description, tonnage and destination of the ship; the nature and quantity of the cargo; the place from whence it comes, and its destination; with such other matters as the practice of the place requires.
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Pass book
Common law. A book used by merchants with their customers, in which an entry of goods sold and delivered to a customer is made.
Passage
A way over water; a voyage made over the sea or great river; as, the Sea Gull had a quick passage: the money paid for the transportation of a person over the sea; as, my, passage to Europe was one hundred and fifty dollars.
Passage money
Contracts. The sum claimable for the conveyance of a person with or without luggage on the water.
Passenger
Cont. One who has taken a place. in a public conveyance, for the purpose of being transported from one place to another.
Passing off
When a trade or service mark is not registrable it may still be entitled to certain protection. Passing off is available where there is a prospect of confusion of identity through the unauthorised use of similar marks or get up, and such use damages, or is likely to damage the goodwill and reputation of a business. Unregistered marks and passing off can apply to virtually any name, mark, logo or get-up which distinguishes a company, business, product or service.
Passive
Passport
Passport, sea brief or sea letter. Maritime law. A paper containing a permission from the neutral state to the captain or master of a ship or vessel to proceed on the voyage proposed; it usually contains his name and residence; the name, property, description, tonnage and destination of the ship; the nature and quantity of the cargo; the place from whence it comes, and its destination; with such other matters as the practice of the place requires.
Pastures
Pastures. The land on which beasts are fed; and by a grant of pastures the land itself passes.
Patent
1) Constrction. That which is open or manifest. 2) Contracts. A patent for an invention is a giant made by the government of the United States to the inventor of any new or useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement in any art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter not known or used by others before his or their discovery or invention thereof, and not, at the time of his application for a patent, in public use or on sale, with his consent or allowance, as the inventor or discoverer; securing to him for a limited time, therein expressed, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used, the said invention or discovery, on certain conditions, among which is the one of at once giving up his secret and making public his discovery or invention, and the manner of making and using the same, so that at the expiration of his privilege, it may become public property.
Patent and trademark office
The federal agency which examines and issues patents and registers trademarks.
Patent french
The following points in relation to the patent laws of France will be found useful to those who have invented valuable machinery, and who are desirous of availing themselves of the patent laws of that country: -
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