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Plaint
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PlaintEnglish law. The exhibiting of any action, real or personal, in writing; the party making his plaint is called the plaintiff.
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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.
Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.
Real
1) A term which is applied to land in its most enlarged signification. Real security, therefore, means the security of mortgages or other incumbrances affecting lands. 2) In the civil law, real has not the same meaning as it has in the common law. There it signifies what relates to a thing, whether it be movable or immovable, lands or goods; thus, a real injury is one which is done to a thing, as a trespass to property, whether it be real or personal in the common law sense. A real statute is one which relates to a thing, in contradistinction to such as relate to a person.
Personal
Belonging to the person.
Writing
The act of forming by the hand letters or characters of a particular kind on paper or other suitable substance, and artfully putting them together so as to co nvey ideas. It differs from printing, which is the formation of words on paper or other proper substance by means of a stamp. Sometimes by writing ii understood printing, and sometimes printing and writing mixed.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
Plaint
English law. The exhibiting of any action, real or personal, in writing; the party making his plaint is called the plaintiff.
Plaintiff
The party who begins an action; the party who complains or sues in an action and is named as such in the court's records. Also called a petitioner.
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Plaintiff
The party who begins an action; the party who complains or sues in an action and is named as such in the court's records. Also called a petitioner.
Plaintiff in error
A party who sues out a writ of error, and this whether in the court below he was plaintiff or defendant.
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Place of machinery
This term is the contact introduced by Robert Merkin in repect of insurance law, being "the law of the place in which the process of the formation of the agreement primarily took place.
Placitum
A plea. This word is nomen generalissimum, and refers to all the pleas in the case. By placitum is also understood the subdivisions in abridgments and other works, where the point decided in a case is set down, separately, and generally numbered.
Plagiarism
The act of appropriating the ideas and language of another, and passing them for one's own.
Plagiarius
civil law. He who fraudulently concealed a freeman or slave who belonged to another.
Plagium
Man stealing, kidnapping. This offence is the crimen plagii of the Romans.
Plaint
Plaintiff in error
A party who sues out a writ of error, and this whether in the court below he was plaintiff or defendant.
Plan
The delineation or design of a city, a house or houses, a garden, a vessel, &c. traced on paper or other substance, representing the position, and the relative proportions of the different parts.
Plantations
Colonies, dependencies. In England, this word, as it is used, is never applied to, any of the British dominions in Europe, but only to the colonies in the West Indies and America.
Plat
A map of a piece of land, in which are marked the courses and disstances of the different lines, and the quantity of land it contains.
Plea
1) Chancery practice. "A plea," says Lord Bacon, speaking of proceedings in courts of equity, "is a foreign matter to discharge or stay the suit." 2) Practice. The defendant's answer by matter of fact, to the plaintiff's declaration.
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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.
Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.
Real
1) A term which is applied to land in its most enlarged signification. Real security, therefore, means the security of mortgages or other incumbrances affecting lands. 2) In the civil law, real has not the same meaning as it has in the common law. There it signifies what relates to a thing, whether it be movable or immovable, lands or goods; thus, a real injury is one which is done to a thing, as a trespass to property, whether it be real or personal in the common law sense. A real statute is one which relates to a thing, in contradistinction to such as relate to a person.
Personal
Belonging to the person.
Writing
The act of forming by the hand letters or characters of a particular kind on paper or other suitable substance, and artfully putting them together so as to co nvey ideas. It differs from printing, which is the formation of words on paper or other proper substance by means of a stamp. Sometimes by writing ii understood printing, and sometimes printing and writing mixed.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
Plaint
English law. The exhibiting of any action, real or personal, in writing; the party making his plaint is called the plaintiff.
Plaintiff
The party who begins an action; the party who complains or sues in an action and is named as such in the court's records. Also called a petitioner.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Plaintiff
The party who begins an action; the party who complains or sues in an action and is named as such in the court's records. Also called a petitioner.
Plaintiff in error
A party who sues out a writ of error, and this whether in the court below he was plaintiff or defendant.
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Place of machinery
This term is the contact introduced by Robert Merkin in repect of insurance law, being "the law of the place in which the process of the formation of the agreement primarily took place.
Placitum
A plea. This word is nomen generalissimum, and refers to all the pleas in the case. By placitum is also understood the subdivisions in abridgments and other works, where the point decided in a case is set down, separately, and generally numbered.
Plagiarism
The act of appropriating the ideas and language of another, and passing them for one's own.
Plagiarius
civil law. He who fraudulently concealed a freeman or slave who belonged to another.
Plagium
Man stealing, kidnapping. This offence is the crimen plagii of the Romans.
Plaint
Plaintiff in error
A party who sues out a writ of error, and this whether in the court below he was plaintiff or defendant.
Plan
The delineation or design of a city, a house or houses, a garden, a vessel, &c. traced on paper or other substance, representing the position, and the relative proportions of the different parts.
Plantations
Colonies, dependencies. In England, this word, as it is used, is never applied to, any of the British dominions in Europe, but only to the colonies in the West Indies and America.
Plat
A map of a piece of land, in which are marked the courses and disstances of the different lines, and the quantity of land it contains.
Plea
1) Chancery practice. "A plea," says Lord Bacon, speaking of proceedings in courts of equity, "is a foreign matter to discharge or stay the suit." 2) Practice. The defendant's answer by matter of fact, to the plaintiff's declaration.
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