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Pignus
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PignusCivil law. This word signifies in English, pledge or pawn.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Pledge
Pledge or pawn. Contracts. These words seem indifferently used to convey the same idea. 2) Pledge Contracts. He who becomes security for another, and, in this sense, every one who becomes bail for another is a pledge
Pawn
A pledge.
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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.
Pignoris capio, rom
Civil law. The name given to one of the legis actiones of the Roman law. It consisted chiefly in the taking. of a pledge, and was in fact a mode of execution. It was confined to special cases determined by positive law or by custom, such as taxes, duties, rents and is comparable in some respects to distresses at common law. The proceeding took place in the presence of a praetor.
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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.
Pignoris capio, rom
Civil law. The name given to one of the legis actiones of the Roman law. It consisted chiefly in the taking. of a pledge, and was in fact a mode of execution. It was confined to special cases determined by positive law or by custom, such as taxes, duties, rents and is comparable in some respects to distresses at common law. The proceeding took place in the presence of a praetor.
Pignus
Pilfering
Theft, usually referring to theft of physical goods. In retail business, customer theft is known as Shoplifting and employee theft is called pilfering. Occasionally used also with theft of cash, especially petty cash or for small thefts.
Pillage
The taking by violence of private property by a victorious army from the citizens or subjects of the enenly. This, in modern times, is seldom allowed, and then, only when authorized by the commander or chief officer, at the place where the pillage is committed. The property thus violently taken in general belongs to the common soldiers
Pillory
Punishment. Wooden machine in which the neck of the culprit is inserted.
Pilot
Merchant law. 1) An officer serving on board of a ship during the course of a voyage, and having the charge of the helm and of the ship's route; 2) An officer authorized by law, who is taken on board at a particular place, for the purpose of conducting a ship through a river, road or channel, or from or into port.
Pilotage
Contracts. The compensation given to a pilot for conducting a vessel in or out of port.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Pledge
Pledge or pawn. Contracts. These words seem indifferently used to convey the same idea. 2) Pledge Contracts. He who becomes security for another, and, in this sense, every one who becomes bail for another is a pledge
Pawn
A pledge.
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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.
Pignoris capio, rom
Civil law. The name given to one of the legis actiones of the Roman law. It consisted chiefly in the taking. of a pledge, and was in fact a mode of execution. It was confined to special cases determined by positive law or by custom, such as taxes, duties, rents and is comparable in some respects to distresses at common law. The proceeding took place in the presence of a praetor.
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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.
Pignoris capio, rom
Civil law. The name given to one of the legis actiones of the Roman law. It consisted chiefly in the taking. of a pledge, and was in fact a mode of execution. It was confined to special cases determined by positive law or by custom, such as taxes, duties, rents and is comparable in some respects to distresses at common law. The proceeding took place in the presence of a praetor.
Pignus
Pilfering
Theft, usually referring to theft of physical goods. In retail business, customer theft is known as Shoplifting and employee theft is called pilfering. Occasionally used also with theft of cash, especially petty cash or for small thefts.
Pillage
The taking by violence of private property by a victorious army from the citizens or subjects of the enenly. This, in modern times, is seldom allowed, and then, only when authorized by the commander or chief officer, at the place where the pillage is committed. The property thus violently taken in general belongs to the common soldiers
Pillory
Punishment. Wooden machine in which the neck of the culprit is inserted.
Pilot
Merchant law. 1) An officer serving on board of a ship during the course of a voyage, and having the charge of the helm and of the ship's route; 2) An officer authorized by law, who is taken on board at a particular place, for the purpose of conducting a ship through a river, road or channel, or from or into port.
Pilotage
Contracts. The compensation given to a pilot for conducting a vessel in or out of port.
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