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Pendente lite
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Pendente litePending the continuance of an action, while litigation continues.
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Continuance
Postponement of a legal proceeding to a later date.
Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.
Litigation
A lawsuit is a civil action brought before a court in order to recover a right, obtain damages for an injury, obtain an injunction to prevent an injury, or obtain a declaratory judgment to prevent future legal disputes. It usually involves dispute resolution of private law issues between individuals, business entities or non-profit organizations.
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Pendentes
Civil law. The fruits of the earth not yet separated from the ground; the fruits hanging by the roots.
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Penal law
One which inflicts a penalty for a violation of its enactment
Penal statutes
Those which inflict a penalty for the violation of some of their provisions.
Penalty
Contracts. A clause in an agreement, by which the obligor agrees to pay a certain-sum of money, if he shall fail to fulfil the contract contained in another clause of the same agreement.
Penance
Ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical punishment, inflicted by an ecclesiastical court, for some spiritual offence.
Pencil
An instrument made of plumbago, black lead, red chalk, or other suitable substance, for writing without ink.
Pendente lite
Pendentes
Civil law. The fruits of the earth not yet separated from the ground; the fruits hanging by the roots.
Penetration
Crimes. The act of inserting the penis into the female organs of generation.
Penitentiary
A prison for the punishment of convicts.
Pennsylvania
The name of one of the original states of the United States of America. Pennsylvania was occupied by planters of various nations, Dutch Swedes, English, and others; but obtained no separate name until the year 1681, when Charles II. granted a charter to William Penn, by which he became its proprietary, saving, however, allegiance to the crown, which retained the sovereignty of the country.
Pennsylvania rule
An almost irrefutable presumption of causation in ship collisions in American maritime law, established by the United States Supreme Court's decision in The Pennsylvania, whereby when a ship, at the time of the collision, is in violation of a statutory rule, that violation is deemed to be at least a contributory cause of the collision. The presumption may only be rebutted by proof that the violation could not have been a cause of the collision.
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Continuance
Postponement of a legal proceeding to a later date.
Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.
Litigation
A lawsuit is a civil action brought before a court in order to recover a right, obtain damages for an injury, obtain an injunction to prevent an injury, or obtain a declaratory judgment to prevent future legal disputes. It usually involves dispute resolution of private law issues between individuals, business entities or non-profit organizations.
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Pendentes
Civil law. The fruits of the earth not yet separated from the ground; the fruits hanging by the roots.
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Penal law
One which inflicts a penalty for a violation of its enactment
Penal statutes
Those which inflict a penalty for the violation of some of their provisions.
Penalty
Contracts. A clause in an agreement, by which the obligor agrees to pay a certain-sum of money, if he shall fail to fulfil the contract contained in another clause of the same agreement.
Penance
Ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical punishment, inflicted by an ecclesiastical court, for some spiritual offence.
Pencil
An instrument made of plumbago, black lead, red chalk, or other suitable substance, for writing without ink.
Pendente lite
Pendentes
Civil law. The fruits of the earth not yet separated from the ground; the fruits hanging by the roots.
Penetration
Crimes. The act of inserting the penis into the female organs of generation.
Penitentiary
A prison for the punishment of convicts.
Pennsylvania
The name of one of the original states of the United States of America. Pennsylvania was occupied by planters of various nations, Dutch Swedes, English, and others; but obtained no separate name until the year 1681, when Charles II. granted a charter to William Penn, by which he became its proprietary, saving, however, allegiance to the crown, which retained the sovereignty of the country.
Pennsylvania rule
An almost irrefutable presumption of causation in ship collisions in American maritime law, established by the United States Supreme Court's decision in The Pennsylvania, whereby when a ship, at the time of the collision, is in violation of a statutory rule, that violation is deemed to be at least a contributory cause of the collision. The presumption may only be rebutted by proof that the violation could not have been a cause of the collision.
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