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Pension
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PensionA stated and certain allowance granted by the government to an individual, or those who represent him, for valuable services performed by him for the country.
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Government
"natural and political law. The manner in which sovereignty is exercised in each state. There are three simple forms of government, the democratic, the aristocratic, and monarchical. But these three simple forms may be varied to infinity by the mixture and divisions of their different powers. Sometimes by the word government is understood the body of men, or the individual in the state, to whom is entrusted the executive power. It is taken in this sense when the government is spoken of in opposition to other bodies in the state.
Country
By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
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Pensioner
One who is supported by an allowance at the will of another. It is more usually applied to him who receives an annuity or pension from the government.
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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.
Penny
The name of an English coin of the value of one-twelfth part of a shilling.
Pennyweight
A troy weight which weighs twenty-four grains, or one-twentieth part of an ounce.
Pension
Pensioner
One who is supported by an allowance at the will of another. It is more usually applied to him who receives an annuity or pension from the government.
Peonia
Spanish law. A portion of land which was formerly given to a simple soldier, on the conquest of a country. It is now a quantity of land, of different size in different provinces. In the Spanish possessions in America, it measured fifty feet front and one hundred feet deep.
People
A state.
Per
By. When a writ of entry is sued out against the alienee, or descendant of the original disseisor, it is then said to be brought in the per, because the writ states that the tenant had not the entry but by the original wrong doer.
Per and cui
When a writ of entry is brought against a second alienee or descendant from the disseisor, it is said to be in the per and cui, because the form of the writ is that the tenant had not entry but by and under a prior alienee, to whom the intruder himself demised it.
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Government
"natural and political law. The manner in which sovereignty is exercised in each state. There are three simple forms of government, the democratic, the aristocratic, and monarchical. But these three simple forms may be varied to infinity by the mixture and divisions of their different powers. Sometimes by the word government is understood the body of men, or the individual in the state, to whom is entrusted the executive power. It is taken in this sense when the government is spoken of in opposition to other bodies in the state.
Country
By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
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Pensioner
One who is supported by an allowance at the will of another. It is more usually applied to him who receives an annuity or pension from the government.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
Penny
The name of an English coin of the value of one-twelfth part of a shilling.
Pennyweight
A troy weight which weighs twenty-four grains, or one-twentieth part of an ounce.
Pension
Pensioner
One who is supported by an allowance at the will of another. It is more usually applied to him who receives an annuity or pension from the government.
Peonia
Spanish law. A portion of land which was formerly given to a simple soldier, on the conquest of a country. It is now a quantity of land, of different size in different provinces. In the Spanish possessions in America, it measured fifty feet front and one hundred feet deep.
People
A state.
Per
By. When a writ of entry is sued out against the alienee, or descendant of the original disseisor, it is then said to be brought in the per, because the writ states that the tenant had not the entry but by the original wrong doer.
Per and cui
When a writ of entry is brought against a second alienee or descendant from the disseisor, it is said to be in the per and cui, because the form of the writ is that the tenant had not entry but by and under a prior alienee, to whom the intruder himself demised it.
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