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Performance
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PerformanceThe act of doing something; the thing done is also called a performance.
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Performance
The act of doing something; the thing done is also called a performance.
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Perfect
Something complete.
Perfidy
The act of one who has engaged his faith to do a thing, and does not do it, but does the contrary.
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Peremptory defence
Equity, pleading. A defence which insists that the plaintiff never had the right to institute the suit, or that if he had, the original right is extinguished or determined.
Peremptory defense
That the plaintiff never had, or has not now, a right of action.Sham defense. A mere pretense of a defense, set up in bad faith, and without color of fact.
Peremptory plea
Pleading. A plea which denies the plaintiff's cause of action.
Perfect
Something complete.
Perfidy
The act of one who has engaged his faith to do a thing, and does not do it, but does the contrary.
Performance
Peril
The accident by which a thing is lost.
Peril of the sea
Peril of the sea is some catastrophic force or event that would not be expected in the area of the voyage, at that time of year and that could not be reasonably guarded against.
Perils of the sea
Contracts. Bills of lading generally contain an exception that the carrier shall not be liable for "perils of the sea." What is the precise import of this phrase is not perhaps very exactly settled. In a 'strict sense, the words perils of the sea, denote the natural accidents peculiar to the sea; but in more than one instance they have been held to extend to events not attributable to natural causes. For instance, they have been held to include a capture by pirates on the high sea and a case of loss by collision by two ships, where no blame is imputable to either, or at all events not to the injured ship.
Periodical
A publication which appears regularly but less often than daily.
Periphrasis
Circumlocution; the use of other words to express the sense of one.
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Performance
The act of doing something; the thing done is also called a performance.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Perfect
Something complete.
Perfidy
The act of one who has engaged his faith to do a thing, and does not do it, but does the contrary.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Peremptory defence
Equity, pleading. A defence which insists that the plaintiff never had the right to institute the suit, or that if he had, the original right is extinguished or determined.
Peremptory defense
That the plaintiff never had, or has not now, a right of action.Sham defense. A mere pretense of a defense, set up in bad faith, and without color of fact.
Peremptory plea
Pleading. A plea which denies the plaintiff's cause of action.
Perfect
Something complete.
Perfidy
The act of one who has engaged his faith to do a thing, and does not do it, but does the contrary.
Performance
Peril
The accident by which a thing is lost.
Peril of the sea
Peril of the sea is some catastrophic force or event that would not be expected in the area of the voyage, at that time of year and that could not be reasonably guarded against.
Perils of the sea
Contracts. Bills of lading generally contain an exception that the carrier shall not be liable for "perils of the sea." What is the precise import of this phrase is not perhaps very exactly settled. In a 'strict sense, the words perils of the sea, denote the natural accidents peculiar to the sea; but in more than one instance they have been held to extend to events not attributable to natural causes. For instance, they have been held to include a capture by pirates on the high sea and a case of loss by collision by two ships, where no blame is imputable to either, or at all events not to the injured ship.
Periodical
A publication which appears regularly but less often than daily.
Periphrasis
Circumlocution; the use of other words to express the sense of one.
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