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Plimsoll line
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Plimsoll lineA mark painted on the side of merchant vessels showing the various draught levels to which the ship may be loaded, usually including tropical fresh water, fresh water, tropical sea water, summer sea water, winter sea water and (for vessels under 100 meters in length) winter North Atlantic Ocean water. The Plimsoll line is accompanied by a circle bisected by a horizontal line, indicating the summer freeboard of the ship and letters signifying the name of the ship's classification society.
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Mark
This term has several acceptations: 1) It is a sign traced on paper or parchment, which stands in the place of a signature, usually made by persons who cannot write. 2) It is the sign, writing or ticket put upon manufactured goods to distinguish them from others.3) Mark or marc, denotes a weight used in several parts of Europe, and for several commodities, especially gold and silver. When gold and silver are sold by the mark, it is divided into twenty-four carats. 4) Mark is also in England a money of accounts, and in some other countries a coin.
Merchant
One whose business it is to buy and sell merchandise; this applies to all persons who habitually trade in merchandise.
Ship
This word, in its most enlarged sense, signifies a vessel employed in navigation; for example, the terms the ship's papers, the ship's hushand, shipwreck, and the like, are employed whether the vessel referred to be a brig, a sloop, or a three-masted vessel.
Water
1) That liquid substance of which the sea, the rivers, and creeks are composed. 2) A pool of water, or a stream or water course, is considered as part of the land, hence a pool of twenty acres, would pass by the grant of twenty acres of land, without mentioning the water. 3) Like land, water is distinguishable into different parts, as the sea, rivers, docks, canals, ponds and sewers, and to these may be added at water course
Line
1) Measures. A line is a lineal measure containing the one twelfth part of a on inch. 2) Estates. The division between two estates. Limit; border; boudary.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Society
A society is a number of persons united together by mutual consent, in order to deliberate, determine, and act jointly for some common purpose.
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Plene administravit
Pleading. A plea in bar entered by an executor or administrator by which he affirms that he had not in his possession at the time of the commencement of the suit, nor has had at any time since any goods of the deceased to be administered; when the plaintiff replies that the defendant had goods, &c., in his possession at that time, and the parties join issue, the burden of the proof will be on the plaintiff.
Plene administravit praeter
This is the usual plea of plene administravit, except that the defendant admits a certain amount of assets in his hands.
Plene computavit
Pleading. A plea in an action of account render, by which the defendant avers that he has fully accounted. Bac. Ab. Accompt, E. This plea does not admit the liability of the defendant to account.
Plenipotentiary
Possessing full powers; as, a minister plenipotentiary, is one authorized fully to settle the matters connected with his mission, subject however to the ratification of the government by which he is authorized.
Plenum dominium
The unlimited right which the owner has to use his property as he deems proper, without accountability to any one.
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Plough-bote
An allowance made to a rural tenant, of wood sufficient for ploughs, harrows, carts, and other instruments of hushandry.
Plough-land
Old English law. An uncertain quantity of land; but, according to some opinions, it contains one hundred and twenty acres.
Plunderage
Maritime law. The embezzlement of goods on board of a ship, is known by the name of plunderage.
Plural
A term used in grammar, which signifies more than one.
Plurality
Government. The greater number of votes given at an election; it is distinguished from a majority, which is a plurality of all the votes which might have been given; though in common parlance majority is used in the sense here given to plurality.
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Mark
This term has several acceptations: 1) It is a sign traced on paper or parchment, which stands in the place of a signature, usually made by persons who cannot write. 2) It is the sign, writing or ticket put upon manufactured goods to distinguish them from others.3) Mark or marc, denotes a weight used in several parts of Europe, and for several commodities, especially gold and silver. When gold and silver are sold by the mark, it is divided into twenty-four carats. 4) Mark is also in England a money of accounts, and in some other countries a coin.
Merchant
One whose business it is to buy and sell merchandise; this applies to all persons who habitually trade in merchandise.
Ship
This word, in its most enlarged sense, signifies a vessel employed in navigation; for example, the terms the ship's papers, the ship's hushand, shipwreck, and the like, are employed whether the vessel referred to be a brig, a sloop, or a three-masted vessel.
Water
1) That liquid substance of which the sea, the rivers, and creeks are composed. 2) A pool of water, or a stream or water course, is considered as part of the land, hence a pool of twenty acres, would pass by the grant of twenty acres of land, without mentioning the water. 3) Like land, water is distinguishable into different parts, as the sea, rivers, docks, canals, ponds and sewers, and to these may be added at water course
Line
1) Measures. A line is a lineal measure containing the one twelfth part of a on inch. 2) Estates. The division between two estates. Limit; border; boudary.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Society
A society is a number of persons united together by mutual consent, in order to deliberate, determine, and act jointly for some common purpose.
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Plene administravit
Pleading. A plea in bar entered by an executor or administrator by which he affirms that he had not in his possession at the time of the commencement of the suit, nor has had at any time since any goods of the deceased to be administered; when the plaintiff replies that the defendant had goods, &c., in his possession at that time, and the parties join issue, the burden of the proof will be on the plaintiff.
Plene administravit praeter
This is the usual plea of plene administravit, except that the defendant admits a certain amount of assets in his hands.
Plene computavit
Pleading. A plea in an action of account render, by which the defendant avers that he has fully accounted. Bac. Ab. Accompt, E. This plea does not admit the liability of the defendant to account.
Plenipotentiary
Possessing full powers; as, a minister plenipotentiary, is one authorized fully to settle the matters connected with his mission, subject however to the ratification of the government by which he is authorized.
Plenum dominium
The unlimited right which the owner has to use his property as he deems proper, without accountability to any one.
Plimsoll line
Plough-bote
An allowance made to a rural tenant, of wood sufficient for ploughs, harrows, carts, and other instruments of hushandry.
Plough-land
Old English law. An uncertain quantity of land; but, according to some opinions, it contains one hundred and twenty acres.
Plunderage
Maritime law. The embezzlement of goods on board of a ship, is known by the name of plunderage.
Plural
A term used in grammar, which signifies more than one.
Plurality
Government. The greater number of votes given at an election; it is distinguished from a majority, which is a plurality of all the votes which might have been given; though in common parlance majority is used in the sense here given to plurality.
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