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Police
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PoliceThat species of superintendence by magistrates which has principally for its object the maintenance of public tranquillity among the citizens. The officers who are appointed for this purpose are also called the police.
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Maintenance
1) Crimes. A malicious, or at least, officious interference in a suit in which the offender has no interest, to assist one of the parties to it against the other, with money or advice to prosecute or defend the action, without any authority of law. 2) Quasi contracts. The support which one person, who is bound by law to do so, gives to another for his living; for example, a father is bound to find maintenance for his children; and a child is required by law to main-tain his father or mother when they cannot support themselves, and he has ability to maintain them.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Police
That species of superintendence by magistrates which has principally for its object the maintenance of public tranquillity among the citizens. The officers who are appointed for this purpose are also called the police.
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Police jury
In Louisiana this name is given. to certain officers who collectively exercise jurisdiction in certain cases of police as levying taxes, regulating roads.
Policy of insurace
Contracts. An instrument in writing by which the contract of insurance is effected and reduced into form.
Policy, public
By public policy is meant that which the law encourages for the promotion of the public good.
Political
Pertaining to policy, or the administration of the government. Political rights are those which may be exercised in the formation or administration of the government they are distinguished from civil, rights, which are the rights which a man enjoys, as regards other individuals, and not in relation to the government. A political corporation is one which has principally for its object the administration of the government, or to which the powers of government, or a part of such powers, have been delegated.
Political or civil liberty
The power of doing whatever the laws permit."Civil liberty" is the power of doing whatever we will, except when restrained by just and equal laws. "Political liberty" is that condition in which a man's civil liberty is fully secured.
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Point
Practice. A proposition or question arising in a case.
Point reserved
A point or question of law which the court, not being fully satisfied how to decide, in the hurried trial of a cause, rules in favor of the party offering it, but subject to revision on a motion for a new trial. If, after argument, it be found to have been ruled correctly, the verdict is supported; if otherwise, it is set aside .
Points
Construction. Marks in writing and in print, to denote the stops that ought to be made in reading, and to point out the sense.
Poison
Criminal law. Those substances which, when applied to the organs of the body, are capable of altering or destroying, in a majority of cases, some or all of the functions necessary to life, are called poisons
Pole
A measure of length, equal to five yards and a half.
Police
Police jury
In Louisiana this name is given. to certain officers who collectively exercise jurisdiction in certain cases of police as levying taxes, regulating roads.
Policy of insurace
Contracts. An instrument in writing by which the contract of insurance is effected and reduced into form.
Policy, public
By public policy is meant that which the law encourages for the promotion of the public good.
Political
Pertaining to policy, or the administration of the government. Political rights are those which may be exercised in the formation or administration of the government they are distinguished from civil, rights, which are the rights which a man enjoys, as regards other individuals, and not in relation to the government. A political corporation is one which has principally for its object the administration of the government, or to which the powers of government, or a part of such powers, have been delegated.
Political or civil liberty
The power of doing whatever the laws permit."Civil liberty" is the power of doing whatever we will, except when restrained by just and equal laws. "Political liberty" is that condition in which a man's civil liberty is fully secured.
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Maintenance
1) Crimes. A malicious, or at least, officious interference in a suit in which the offender has no interest, to assist one of the parties to it against the other, with money or advice to prosecute or defend the action, without any authority of law. 2) Quasi contracts. The support which one person, who is bound by law to do so, gives to another for his living; for example, a father is bound to find maintenance for his children; and a child is required by law to main-tain his father or mother when they cannot support themselves, and he has ability to maintain them.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Police
That species of superintendence by magistrates which has principally for its object the maintenance of public tranquillity among the citizens. The officers who are appointed for this purpose are also called the police.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Police jury
In Louisiana this name is given. to certain officers who collectively exercise jurisdiction in certain cases of police as levying taxes, regulating roads.
Policy of insurace
Contracts. An instrument in writing by which the contract of insurance is effected and reduced into form.
Policy, public
By public policy is meant that which the law encourages for the promotion of the public good.
Political
Pertaining to policy, or the administration of the government. Political rights are those which may be exercised in the formation or administration of the government they are distinguished from civil, rights, which are the rights which a man enjoys, as regards other individuals, and not in relation to the government. A political corporation is one which has principally for its object the administration of the government, or to which the powers of government, or a part of such powers, have been delegated.
Political or civil liberty
The power of doing whatever the laws permit."Civil liberty" is the power of doing whatever we will, except when restrained by just and equal laws. "Political liberty" is that condition in which a man's civil liberty is fully secured.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Point
Practice. A proposition or question arising in a case.
Point reserved
A point or question of law which the court, not being fully satisfied how to decide, in the hurried trial of a cause, rules in favor of the party offering it, but subject to revision on a motion for a new trial. If, after argument, it be found to have been ruled correctly, the verdict is supported; if otherwise, it is set aside .
Points
Construction. Marks in writing and in print, to denote the stops that ought to be made in reading, and to point out the sense.
Poison
Criminal law. Those substances which, when applied to the organs of the body, are capable of altering or destroying, in a majority of cases, some or all of the functions necessary to life, are called poisons
Pole
A measure of length, equal to five yards and a half.
Police
Police jury
In Louisiana this name is given. to certain officers who collectively exercise jurisdiction in certain cases of police as levying taxes, regulating roads.
Policy of insurace
Contracts. An instrument in writing by which the contract of insurance is effected and reduced into form.
Policy, public
By public policy is meant that which the law encourages for the promotion of the public good.
Political
Pertaining to policy, or the administration of the government. Political rights are those which may be exercised in the formation or administration of the government they are distinguished from civil, rights, which are the rights which a man enjoys, as regards other individuals, and not in relation to the government. A political corporation is one which has principally for its object the administration of the government, or to which the powers of government, or a part of such powers, have been delegated.
Political or civil liberty
The power of doing whatever the laws permit."Civil liberty" is the power of doing whatever we will, except when restrained by just and equal laws. "Political liberty" is that condition in which a man's civil liberty is fully secured.
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