日期：2008-03-21 3. The subject to be patented 8. Patents are granted, 1. For inventions and discoveries. 2. For importations. 1. Patents for inventions and discoveries. By the act, of July 4, 1836, sect. 6, it is enacted, that any person or persons having discovere... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 PATENT , contracts. A patent for an invention is a giant made by the government of the United States to the inventor of any new or useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement in any art, machine, manu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 PASTURES , pastures. The land on which beasts are fed; and by a grant of pastures the land itself passes. 1 Thorn. Co, Litt. 202. PATENT , constrction. That which is open or manifest. 2. This word is usually applied to ambiguities which are said to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 PASSPORT, SEA BRIEF, or SEA LETTER , maritime law. A paper containing a permission from the neutral state to the captain or master of a ship or vessel to proceed on the voyage proposed; it usually contains his name and residence; the name, property,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 PASS . In the slave states this word signifies a certificate given by the master or mistress to a slave, in which it is stated that he is permitted to leave his home, with the authority of his master or mistress. The paper on which-such certificate... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-21 PARTUS . The child just before it is born, or immediately after its birth. Before birth the partus is considered as a portion of the mother. Dig. 25, 4, 1, 1. -See Birth; Foetus; Proles; Prolicide. PARTY , practice, contracts. When applied to practi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 PARTURITION . The act of giving birth to a child. 2. Sometimes questions arise how far means may be employed to promote par turition, which cause, or are likely to cause others in relation to it, but merely for his own share, and to the extent of hi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 PARTOWNERS . Persons who hold real or personal property by the same title, either as tenants in common, joint tenants, or coparceners. They are sometimes called guasi partners and differ from partners in this, that they are either joint owners, or t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 PARTNERSHIP , contracts. An agreement between two or more persons, for joining together their money, goods, labor and skill, or either or all of them, for the purpose of advancing fair trade, and of dividing the profits and losses arising from it, p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 PARTNERS , contracts. Persons who have united together and formed a partnership. 2. Every person sui juris is competent to contract the relation of a partner. An infant may by law be a partner. 5 B A. 159; but a feme covert, not being capable of con... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 PARTITION , conveyancing. A deed of partition is, one by which lands held in joint tenancy, coparcenary, or in common, are divided into distinct portions, and allotted to the several parties, who take them in severalty. 2. In the old deeds of partit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 PARTIES TO A SUIT IN EQUITY . The person who seeks a remedy in chancery by suit, commonly called a plaintiff, and the person against whom the remedy is sought, usually denominated the defendant, are the parties to a suit in equity. 2. It is of the u... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 PARTIES TO ACTIONS . Those persons who institute actions for the recovery of their rights, and those persons against whom they are instituted, are the parties to the actions; the former are called plaintiffs, and the latter, defendants. The term par... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 PARTIES , contracts. Those persons who engage themselves to do, or not to do the matters and things contained in an agreement. 2. All persons generally can be parties to contracts, unless they labor under some disability. 3. Consent being essential... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 PARTICEPS FRAUDIS . fraud. Both parties be in pari delicto is not allowed to allege his own turpitude in such cases, when defendant at law, or prevented from alleging it, when plaintiff in equity, whenever the refusal to execute the contract at law,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 PAROL LEASES . An agreement made verbally, not in writing, between the parties, by which one of them leases to the other a certain estate. 2. By the English statute of frauds of 29 Car. III, c. 3, s. 1, 2, and 3, it is declared, that all leases, est... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 PARIUM JUDICIUM . The trial by jury , or by a man's peers, or equals, is so called. PARK , Eng. law. An enclosed chase (q.v.) extending only over a man's own grounds. The term park signifies an enclosure. 2 Bl. Com. 38. PARLIAMENT . This word, deriv... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 PARENTAGE . Kindred. Vide 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1955; Branch; Line. PARENTS . The lawful father and mother of the party spoken of. 1 Murph. R. 336; 11 S. R. 93. 2. The term parent differs from that of ancestor, the latter embracing not only the father an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 PARAVAIL . Tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is the immediate tenant to one who holds of another. He is called tenant paravail, because it is presumed he has the avails or profits of the land. F. N. B. 135; 2 Inst, 296. PARC... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-20 PARAGE . Equality of name or blood, but more especially of land in the partition of an inheritance among co-heirs, hence comes disparage and disparagement. Co. Litt. 166. PARAGIUM . A Latin term which signifies equality. It is derived from the adjec... 阅读全文>>