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Physiology






Physiology

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

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Life
The aggregate of the animal functions which resist death. Bichat.



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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.

Physician
One lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine.



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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
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.

Physician
One lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine.

Physiology

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.

Pignoration
Civil law . This word is used by Justinian in the title of the 52d novel, and signifies not only a pledge of property, but an engagement of the person.

Pignorative contract
Civil law. A contract by which the owner of an estate engages it to another for a sum of money, and grants to him and his successors the right to enjoy it, until he shall be reimbursed, voluntarily, that sum of money.

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