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Plunderage
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PlunderageMaritime law. The embezzlement of goods on board of a ship, is known by the name of plunderage.
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Maritime
That which belongs to or is connected with the sea.
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.
Embezzlement
Theft of money from an employer by an employee using false entries in accounting records to cover up the crime.
Board
This word is used to designate all the magistrates of a city or borough, or all the managers or directors of any institution; as, the board of aldermen; the board of directors of the Bank of North America. The majority of the board have in general the power to perform the acts of the whole board, but sometimes they are restrained by their charters, and it requires a greater number to perform certain acts.
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.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Plunderage
Maritime law. The embezzlement of goods on board of a ship, is known by the name of plunderage.
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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
A 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.
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
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.
Pluries
Practice. A term by which a writ issued subsequently to an alias of the same kind, is denominated.
Poach
To kill or take an animal or fish from the property of another.
Pocket parts
Supplements to law books in pamphlet form which are inserted in a pocket inside the back cover of the books to keep them current.
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Maritime
That which belongs to or is connected with the sea.
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.
Embezzlement
Theft of money from an employer by an employee using false entries in accounting records to cover up the crime.
Board
This word is used to designate all the magistrates of a city or borough, or all the managers or directors of any institution; as, the board of aldermen; the board of directors of the Bank of North America. The majority of the board have in general the power to perform the acts of the whole board, but sometimes they are restrained by their charters, and it requires a greater number to perform certain acts.
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.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Plunderage
Maritime law. The embezzlement of goods on board of a ship, is known by the name of plunderage.
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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
A 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.
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
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.
Pluries
Practice. A term by which a writ issued subsequently to an alias of the same kind, is denominated.
Poach
To kill or take an animal or fish from the property of another.
Pocket parts
Supplements to law books in pamphlet form which are inserted in a pocket inside the back cover of the books to keep them current.
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