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Plan
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PlanThe 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.
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City
Government. A town incorporated by that name.
House
Estates. A place for the habitation and dwelling of man. This word has several significations, as it is applied to different things. In a grant or demise of a house, the curtilage and garden will pass, even without the words "with the appurtenances," being added.
Garden
A piece of ground appropriated to raising plants and flowers.
Substance
Evidence. That which is essential; it is used in opposition to form.
Relative
One connected with another by blood or affinity; a relation, a kinsman or kinswoman. In an adjective sense, having relation or connexion with some other person or thing; as relative rights, relative powers.
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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
A party who sues out a writ of error, and this whether in the court below he was plaintiff or defendant.
Plan
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.
Plead
To plead. The formal entry of the defendant's defence on the record. In a popular sense, it signifies the argument in a cause, but it is not so used by the profession.
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City
Government. A town incorporated by that name.
House
Estates. A place for the habitation and dwelling of man. This word has several significations, as it is applied to different things. In a grant or demise of a house, the curtilage and garden will pass, even without the words "with the appurtenances," being added.
Garden
A piece of ground appropriated to raising plants and flowers.
Substance
Evidence. That which is essential; it is used in opposition to form.
Relative
One connected with another by blood or affinity; a relation, a kinsman or kinswoman. In an adjective sense, having relation or connexion with some other person or thing; as relative rights, relative powers.
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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
A party who sues out a writ of error, and this whether in the court below he was plaintiff or defendant.
Plan
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.
Plead
To plead. The formal entry of the defendant's defence on the record. In a popular sense, it signifies the argument in a cause, but it is not so used by the profession.
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