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Physical custody






Physical custody

A child custody decision which grants the right to organize and administer the day to day residential care of a child. This is usually combined with legal custody.

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Child
Generally, an unmarried person under 21 years of age who is: a child born in wedlock; a stepchild, provided that the child was under 18 years of age at the time that the marriage creating the stepchild relationship occurred; a legitimated child, provided that the child was legitimated while in the legal custody of the legitimating parent; a child born out of wedlock, when a benefit is sought on the basis of its relationship with its mother, or to its father if the father has or had a bona fide relationship with the child; a child adopted while under 16 years of age who has resided since adoption in the legal custody of the adopting parents for at least 2 years; or an orphan, under 16 years of age, who has been adopted abroad by a U.S. citizen or has an immediate-relative visa petition submitted in his/her behalf and is coming to the United States for adoption by a U.S. citizen.

Custody
The detainer of a person by virtue of a lawful authority.

Decision
Practice. A judgment given by a competent tribunal. The French lawyers call the opinions which they give on questions propounded to them, decisions.

Right
1) Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it commands restitution, or that it forbids murder. In our language it is seldom used in this sense. 2) It sometimes means that quality in our actions by which they are denominated just ones. This is usually denominated rectitude. 3) It is that quality in a person by which he can do certain actions, or possess certain things which belong to him by virtue of some title. In this sense, we use it when we say that a man has a right to his estate or a right to defend himself.

Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.



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Physician
One lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine.

Physiology
med. jur. The science which treats of the functions of animals; it is the science of life.



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Petty average
A contribution by the owners of the ship, freight and goods on board, for losses sustained by the ship and cargo, which consist of small charges.

Petty bag
English law. An office in the court of chancery, appropriated for suits against attorneys and officers of the court; and for, process and proceedings, by extent on statutes, recognizances, ad quod damnum and the like.

Petty offense
A minor crime and for which the punishment is usually just a small fine or short term of imprisonment.

Pew
A seat in a church separated from all others, with a convenient space to stand therein.

Pharos
A light-house or beacon. It is derived from Phams, a small island at the mouth of the Nile, on which was built a watch-tower.

Physical custody

Physician
One lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine.

Physiology
med. jur. The science which treats of the functions of animals; it is the science of life.

Picket
To object publicly, on or adjacent to the employer's premises, to an employer's labor practices, goods or services. The most common form of picketing is patrolling with signs.

Pickpocket
A thief; one who in a crowd or. in other places, steals from the pockets or person of another without putting him in fear. This is generally punished as simple larceny.

Pigeon drop
A fraud scheme that involves a wallet/purse/envelope with a large sum of money in it but no identification. The Perpetrator and Accomplice, together with the victim "finds" the wallet, and the victim is persuaded to withdraw a sum of money as "good faith" to share in the cache. The victim is distracted and the Perpetrators steal the money and disappear with it.

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