|
 |
||
 |
| This dictionary contains: 8526 juridical terms |
 |
Passport
|
|
PassportPassport, 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.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
Brief
Ecclesiastical law. The name of a kind of papal rescript. Briefs are writings sealed with wax, and differ in this respect from bulls, which are scaled with lead.
Letter
1) Common law, criminal law. An epistle; a despatch; a written message, usually on paper, which is folded up and sealed, sent by one person to another. 2) Contracts. In the civil law, locator, and in the French law, locateur, loueur, or bailleur, is he who, being the owner of a thing, lets it out to another for hire or compensation. 3) Civil law. The answer which the prince gave to questions of law which had been submitted to him by magistrates, was called letters or epistles. 4) Missive, English law. After a bill has been filed against a peer or peeress, or lord of parliament, a petition is presented to the lord chancellor for his letter, called a letter missive, which requests the defendant to appear and answer to the bill. A neglect to attend to this, places the defendant, in relation to such suit, on the same ground as other defendants, who are not peers, and a subpoena may then issue.
Maritime
That which belongs to or is connected with the sea.
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.
Permission
A license to do a thing; an authority to do an act which without such authority would have been unlawful.
State
1) Government. In its most enlarged sense, it signifies a self-sufficient body of persons united together in one community for the defence of their rights, and to do right and justice to foreigners. In this sense, the state means the whole people united into one body politic; and the state, and the people of the state, are equivalent expressions. 2) Condition of persons. This word has various acceptations. If we inquire into its origin, it will be found to come from the Latin status, which is derived from the verb stare, sto, whence has been made statio, which signifies the place where a person is located, stat, to fulfil the obligations which are imposed upon him.
Master
"This word has several meanings. 1) Master is one who has control over a servant or apprentice. A master stands in relation to his apprentices, in loco parentis, and is bound to fulfil that relation, which the law generally enforces. He is also entitled to be obeyed by his apprentices, as if they were his children. 2) Master is one who is employed in teaching children, known generally as a schoolmaster; as to his powers 3) Master is the name of an officer: as, the ship Benjamin Franklin, whereof A B is master; the master of the rolls; master in chancery, &c .4) By master is also understood a principal who employs another to perform some act or do something for him. The law having adopted the maxim of the civil law, qui facit per alium facit per se; the agent is but an instrument, and the master is civilly responsible for the act of his agent, as if it were his own, when he either commands him to do an act, or puts him in a condition, of which such act is a result, or by the absence of due care and control, either previously in the choice of his agent, or immediately in the act itself, negligently suffers him to do an injury.
Ship
This word, in its most enlarged sense, signifies a vessel employed in navigation; for example, the terms the ship's papers, the ship's hushand, shipwreck, and the like, are employed whether the vessel referred to be a brig, a sloop, or a three-masted vessel.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Residence
The place of one's domicil. There is a difference between a man's residence and his domicil. He may have his domicil in Philadelphia, and still he may have a residence in New York; for although a man can have but one domicil, he may have several residences. A residence is generally tran-sient in its nature, it becomes a domicil when it is taken up animo manendi.
Property
Property is commonly thought of as a thing which belongs to someone and over which a person has total control. But, legally, it is more properly defined as a collection of legal rights over a thing. These rights are usually total and fully enforceable by the state or the owner against others. It has been said that "property and law were born and die together. Before laws were made there was no property. Take away laws and property ceases." before laws were written and enforced, property had no relevance. Possession was all that mattered. There are many classifications of property, the most common being between real property or immoveable property (real estate such as land or buildings) and "chattel", or "moveable" (things which are not attached to the land such as a bicycle, a car or a hammer) and between public (property belonging to everybody or to the state) and private property.
Description
A written account of the state and condition of personal property, titles, papers, and the like. It is a kind of inventory, but is more particular in ascertaining the exact condition of the property, and is without any appraisement of it.
Tonnage
Maritime law. The capacity of a ship or vessel.
Destination
Common law. The port at which a ship is to end her voyage is called her port of destination.
Quantity
Pleading. That which is susceptible of measure.
Cargo
Maritim law. The entire load of a ship or other vessel.
Place
Pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.
Comes
1) Offices. A Count. An officer during the middle ages, who possessed civil and military authority. 2) Pleading. The word comes, venit, expresses the appearance of the defendant , in court.
Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
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.
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.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
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
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.
Passport
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: -
Patent laws of great britain and ireland
The patent laws of Great Britain and Ireland will be briefly considered by taking a view of the persons to whom patents will be granted; the different kinds of patents; the time for which they are granted; and the expenses attending them.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
Brief
Ecclesiastical law. The name of a kind of papal rescript. Briefs are writings sealed with wax, and differ in this respect from bulls, which are scaled with lead.
Letter
1) Common law, criminal law. An epistle; a despatch; a written message, usually on paper, which is folded up and sealed, sent by one person to another. 2) Contracts. In the civil law, locator, and in the French law, locateur, loueur, or bailleur, is he who, being the owner of a thing, lets it out to another for hire or compensation. 3) Civil law. The answer which the prince gave to questions of law which had been submitted to him by magistrates, was called letters or epistles. 4) Missive, English law. After a bill has been filed against a peer or peeress, or lord of parliament, a petition is presented to the lord chancellor for his letter, called a letter missive, which requests the defendant to appear and answer to the bill. A neglect to attend to this, places the defendant, in relation to such suit, on the same ground as other defendants, who are not peers, and a subpoena may then issue.
Maritime
That which belongs to or is connected with the sea.
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.
Permission
A license to do a thing; an authority to do an act which without such authority would have been unlawful.
State
1) Government. In its most enlarged sense, it signifies a self-sufficient body of persons united together in one community for the defence of their rights, and to do right and justice to foreigners. In this sense, the state means the whole people united into one body politic; and the state, and the people of the state, are equivalent expressions. 2) Condition of persons. This word has various acceptations. If we inquire into its origin, it will be found to come from the Latin status, which is derived from the verb stare, sto, whence has been made statio, which signifies the place where a person is located, stat, to fulfil the obligations which are imposed upon him.
Master
"This word has several meanings. 1) Master is one who has control over a servant or apprentice. A master stands in relation to his apprentices, in loco parentis, and is bound to fulfil that relation, which the law generally enforces. He is also entitled to be obeyed by his apprentices, as if they were his children. 2) Master is one who is employed in teaching children, known generally as a schoolmaster; as to his powers 3) Master is the name of an officer: as, the ship Benjamin Franklin, whereof A B is master; the master of the rolls; master in chancery, &c .4) By master is also understood a principal who employs another to perform some act or do something for him. The law having adopted the maxim of the civil law, qui facit per alium facit per se; the agent is but an instrument, and the master is civilly responsible for the act of his agent, as if it were his own, when he either commands him to do an act, or puts him in a condition, of which such act is a result, or by the absence of due care and control, either previously in the choice of his agent, or immediately in the act itself, negligently suffers him to do an injury.
Ship
This word, in its most enlarged sense, signifies a vessel employed in navigation; for example, the terms the ship's papers, the ship's hushand, shipwreck, and the like, are employed whether the vessel referred to be a brig, a sloop, or a three-masted vessel.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Residence
The place of one's domicil. There is a difference between a man's residence and his domicil. He may have his domicil in Philadelphia, and still he may have a residence in New York; for although a man can have but one domicil, he may have several residences. A residence is generally tran-sient in its nature, it becomes a domicil when it is taken up animo manendi.
Property
Property is commonly thought of as a thing which belongs to someone and over which a person has total control. But, legally, it is more properly defined as a collection of legal rights over a thing. These rights are usually total and fully enforceable by the state or the owner against others. It has been said that "property and law were born and die together. Before laws were made there was no property. Take away laws and property ceases." before laws were written and enforced, property had no relevance. Possession was all that mattered. There are many classifications of property, the most common being between real property or immoveable property (real estate such as land or buildings) and "chattel", or "moveable" (things which are not attached to the land such as a bicycle, a car or a hammer) and between public (property belonging to everybody or to the state) and private property.
Description
A written account of the state and condition of personal property, titles, papers, and the like. It is a kind of inventory, but is more particular in ascertaining the exact condition of the property, and is without any appraisement of it.
Tonnage
Maritime law. The capacity of a ship or vessel.
Destination
Common law. The port at which a ship is to end her voyage is called her port of destination.
Quantity
Pleading. That which is susceptible of measure.
Cargo
Maritim law. The entire load of a ship or other vessel.
Place
Pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.
Comes
1) Offices. A Count. An officer during the middle ages, who possessed civil and military authority. 2) Pleading. The word comes, venit, expresses the appearance of the defendant , in court.
Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
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.
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.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
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
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.
Passport
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: -
Patent laws of great britain and ireland
The patent laws of Great Britain and Ireland will be briefly considered by taking a view of the persons to whom patents will be granted; the different kinds of patents; the time for which they are granted; and the expenses attending them.
We thank you for using the Juridical Dictionary to search for Passport. If you have a better definition for Passport than the one presented here, please let us know by making use of the suggest a term option. This definition of Passport may be disputed by other professionals. Our attempt is to provide easy definitions on Passport and any other medical topic for the public at large.
This dictionary contains 8526 terms.
|
|