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Plaintiff in error
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Plaintiff in errorA party who sues out a writ of error, and this whether in the court below he was plaintiff or defendant.
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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.
Writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal, which commands the person to whom it is addressed, to do something specific. That "person" is typically either a sheriff (who may be instructed to seize property, for example) or a defendant (for whom the writ is the first notice of formal legal action. In these cases, the writ would command the person to answer the charges laid out in the suit, or else judgment may be made against them in their absence).
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Below
Lower in place, beneath, not so high as some other thing spoken of, of tacitly referred to.
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.
Defendant
A party who is sued in a personal action.
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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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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
English law. The exhibiting of any action, real or personal, in writing; the party making his plaint is called the plaintiff.
Plaintiff in error
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.
Plea bargaining
Negotiations during a criminal trial, between an accused person and a prosecutor in which the accused agrees to admit to a crime (sometimes a lesser crime than the one set out in the original charge), avoiding the expense of a public trial, in exchange for which the prosecutor agrees to ask for a more lenient sentence than would have been recommended if the case had of proceeded to full trial. The normal rule of law is that judges are not bound by plea bargains although, as past lawyers themselves, they are generally aware of plea bargains and a reasonable recommendation of a prosecutor on sentencing is always heavily considered.
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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.
Writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal, which commands the person to whom it is addressed, to do something specific. That "person" is typically either a sheriff (who may be instructed to seize property, for example) or a defendant (for whom the writ is the first notice of formal legal action. In these cases, the writ would command the person to answer the charges laid out in the suit, or else judgment may be made against them in their absence).
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Below
Lower in place, beneath, not so high as some other thing spoken of, of tacitly referred to.
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.
Defendant
A party who is sued in a personal action.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
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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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
English law. The exhibiting of any action, real or personal, in writing; the party making his plaint is called the plaintiff.
Plaintiff in error
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.
Plea bargaining
Negotiations during a criminal trial, between an accused person and a prosecutor in which the accused agrees to admit to a crime (sometimes a lesser crime than the one set out in the original charge), avoiding the expense of a public trial, in exchange for which the prosecutor agrees to ask for a more lenient sentence than would have been recommended if the case had of proceeded to full trial. The normal rule of law is that judges are not bound by plea bargains although, as past lawyers themselves, they are generally aware of plea bargains and a reasonable recommendation of a prosecutor on sentencing is always heavily considered.
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