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Pipe






Pipe

English laid. The name of a roll in the exchequer otherwise called the Great Roll. A measure containing two hogsheads; one hundred and twenty-six gallons is also called a pipe.

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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.

Roll
A schedule of parchment which may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe or tube.

Measure
That which is used as a rule to determine a quantity. A certain quantity of something, taken for a unit, and which expresses a relation with other quantities of the same thing.

Hundred
English law. A district of country originally comprehending one hundred families. In many cases, when an offence is committed within the -hundred, the inhabitants tire civilly responsible to the party injured.

Pipe
English laid. The name of a roll in the exchequer otherwise called the Great Roll. A measure containing two hogsheads; one hundred and twenty-six gallons is also called a pipe.



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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.

Pin money
Money allowed by a man to his wife to spend for her own personal comforts.

Pingponging
In medical insurance or Workers Compensation Fraud, referring patients to other doctors in the same clinic in order to claim reimbursement for "consultations" rather than for actual treatment.

Pint
A liquid measure containing half a quart or the eighth part of a gallon.

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Piracy
Crime law. A robbery or forcible depreciation on the high seas, without lawful authority, done animo furandi, in the spirit and intention of universal hostility. 2) Torts. By piracy is understood the plagiarisms of a book, engraving or other work, for which a copyright has been taken out. 2. When a piracy has been made of such a work, an injunction will be granted.

Pirate
A sea robber, who, to enrich himself by subtlety or open force, setteth upon merchants and others trading by sea, despoiling them of their loading, and sometimes bereaving them of life and, sinking their ships; Ridley's View of the Civ. and Ecc. Law, part 2, c. 1, s. 8; or more generally one guilty of the crime of piracy.

Piratically
Pleadings. This is a technical word, essential to charge the crime of piracy in an indictment, which cannot be supplied by another word, or any circumlocution.

Piscary
The right of fishing in the waters of another.

Pistareen
A small Spanish coin. It is not a coin made current by the laws of the United States.

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