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Port-reeve
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Port-reeveEnglish law. In some places in England an officer bearing this name is the chief magistrate of a port-town.
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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.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Chief
Principal. One who is put above the rest.
Magistrate
Mun. law. A public civil officer, invested with some part of the legislative, executive, or judicial power given by the constitution. In a narrower sense this term includes only inferior judicial officers, as justices of the peace.
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Port of entry
Any location in the United States or its territories that is designated as a point of entry for aliens and U.S. citizens. All district and files control offices are also considered ports, since they become locations of entry for aliens adjusting to immigrant status.
Port state control
Port State Control is the system whereby the authorities of a State responsible for marine safety are empowered to inspect vessels entering its ports, even if they do not fly the flag of that State, in order to identify ships not complying with applicable norms, especially with respect to safety. Port State Control is typically governed by an international agreement, such as the Paris Memorandum of Understanding of July 1, 1982 (binding most European countries and a few others, including Canada) or the Tokyo of December 2, 1993, in force April 1994 (binding many States in the Asia-Pacific region and also including Canada).
Port toll
Merchant law., By this phrase is understood the money paid for the privilege of bringing goods into a port.
Portatica
English law. The generic name for port duties charged to ships.
Porter
The name of an ancient English officer who bore or carried a rod before the justices. The door-keeper of the English parliament also bears this name.
Portfolio copies
Writers' copies of documents produced on a job to use for work samples.
Portion
That part of a parent's estate, or the estate of one standing in loco parentis, which is given to a child.
Portoria
Civil law. Duties paid in ports on merchandise.
Portsales
Auctions were anciently so called, because they took place in ports
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Portatica
English law. The generic name for port duties charged to ships.
Porter
The name of an ancient English officer who bore or carried a rod before the justices. The door-keeper of the English parliament also bears this name.
Portfolio copies
Writers' copies of documents produced on a job to use for work samples.
Portion
That part of a parent's estate, or the estate of one standing in loco parentis, which is given to a child.
Portoria
Civil law. Duties paid in ports on merchandise.
Port-reeve
Portsales
Auctions were anciently so called, because they took place in ports
Positive
Express; absolute; not doubtful. This word is frequently used in composition.
Positive law
Positive law, as used in opposition to natural law, may be considered in a threefold point of view. 1.) The universal voluntary law, or those rules which are presumed to be law, by the uniform practice of nations in general, and by the manifest utility of the rules themselves. 2.) The customary law, or that which, from motives of convenience, has, by tacit, but implied agreement, prevailed, not generally indeed among all nations, nor with so permanent a utility as to become a portion of the universal voluntary law, but enough to have acquired a prescriptive obligation among certain states so situated as to be mutually benefited by it. 3) The conventional law, or that which is agreed between particular states by express treaty, a law binding on the parties among whom such treaties are in force.
Posse
This word is used substantively to signify a possibility. For example, such a thing is in posse, that is, such a thing may possibly be; when the thing is in being, the phrase to express it is, in esse.
Posse comitatus
These Latin words signify the power of the county.
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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.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Chief
Principal. One who is put above the rest.
Magistrate
Mun. law. A public civil officer, invested with some part of the legislative, executive, or judicial power given by the constitution. In a narrower sense this term includes only inferior judicial officers, as justices of the peace.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Port of entry
Any location in the United States or its territories that is designated as a point of entry for aliens and U.S. citizens. All district and files control offices are also considered ports, since they become locations of entry for aliens adjusting to immigrant status.
Port state control
Port State Control is the system whereby the authorities of a State responsible for marine safety are empowered to inspect vessels entering its ports, even if they do not fly the flag of that State, in order to identify ships not complying with applicable norms, especially with respect to safety. Port State Control is typically governed by an international agreement, such as the Paris Memorandum of Understanding of July 1, 1982 (binding most European countries and a few others, including Canada) or the Tokyo of December 2, 1993, in force April 1994 (binding many States in the Asia-Pacific region and also including Canada).
Port toll
Merchant law., By this phrase is understood the money paid for the privilege of bringing goods into a port.
Portatica
English law. The generic name for port duties charged to ships.
Porter
The name of an ancient English officer who bore or carried a rod before the justices. The door-keeper of the English parliament also bears this name.
Portfolio copies
Writers' copies of documents produced on a job to use for work samples.
Portion
That part of a parent's estate, or the estate of one standing in loco parentis, which is given to a child.
Portoria
Civil law. Duties paid in ports on merchandise.
Portsales
Auctions were anciently so called, because they took place in ports
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Portatica
English law. The generic name for port duties charged to ships.
Porter
The name of an ancient English officer who bore or carried a rod before the justices. The door-keeper of the English parliament also bears this name.
Portfolio copies
Writers' copies of documents produced on a job to use for work samples.
Portion
That part of a parent's estate, or the estate of one standing in loco parentis, which is given to a child.
Portoria
Civil law. Duties paid in ports on merchandise.
Port-reeve
Portsales
Auctions were anciently so called, because they took place in ports
Positive
Express; absolute; not doubtful. This word is frequently used in composition.
Positive law
Positive law, as used in opposition to natural law, may be considered in a threefold point of view. 1.) The universal voluntary law, or those rules which are presumed to be law, by the uniform practice of nations in general, and by the manifest utility of the rules themselves. 2.) The customary law, or that which, from motives of convenience, has, by tacit, but implied agreement, prevailed, not generally indeed among all nations, nor with so permanent a utility as to become a portion of the universal voluntary law, but enough to have acquired a prescriptive obligation among certain states so situated as to be mutually benefited by it. 3) The conventional law, or that which is agreed between particular states by express treaty, a law binding on the parties among whom such treaties are in force.
Posse
This word is used substantively to signify a possibility. For example, such a thing is in posse, that is, such a thing may possibly be; when the thing is in being, the phrase to express it is, in esse.
Posse comitatus
These Latin words signify the power of the county.
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