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681 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERPETUAL.8 (Noah Webster)
5. During the legal dispensation. Exodus 29:9 .
682 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PIRATE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. An armed ship or vessel which sails without legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels indiscriminately on the high seas.
683 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLEAD.13 (Noah Webster)
3. To allege and offer in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; as, to plead usury; to plead a statute of limitations.
684 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POLLUTE.2 (Noah Webster)
… a legal or ceremonial sense, so as to disqualify a person for sacred services, or to render things unfit for sacred uses. Numbers 18:32; Exodus 20:25; 2 Kings 23 …
685 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POLLUTION.4 (Noah Webster)
3. In the Jewish economy, legal or ceremonial uncleanness, which disqualified a person for sacred services or for common intercourse with the people, or rendered any thing unfit for sacred use.
686 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POOR.24 (Noah Webster)
17. The poor, collectively, used as a noun; those who are destitute of property; the indigent; the needy; in a legal sense, those who depend on charity or maintenance by the public.
687 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POSPOLITE.2 (Noah Webster)
… any legal precept which is forcibly opposed. The word comitatus is often omitted, and posse alone is used in the same sense.
688 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POSSESS.2 (Noah Webster)
… and legal title, ownership or property of a thing; to own; to hold the title of, as the rightful proprietor, or to hold both the title and the thing. A man may possess …
689 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POSSESSOR.1 (Noah Webster)
… by legal right; the lessee of land and the bailee of goods are temporary possessors by right; the disseizor of land and the thief are wrongful possessors.
690 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POWER.23 (Noah Webster)
16. Legal authority; warrant; as a power of attorney; an agent invested with ample power. The envoy has full powers to negotiate a treaty.
691 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRECISION.1 (Noah Webster)
… , in legal instruments and in mathematical calculations. Neither perspicuity nor precision should be sacrificed to ornament.
692 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRE-EMINENCE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Superiority in excellence; distinction in something commendable; as pre-eminence in honor or virtue; pre-eminence in eloquence, in legal attainments or in medical skill.
693 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PREROGATIVE.2 (Noah Webster)
… decide legal questions in the last resort. It is the prerogative of the house of commons to determine the validity of all elections of their own members. It …
694 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRETERLEGAL.1 (Noah Webster)
PRETERLEGAL, a. [L. proeter and legal.] Exceeding the limits of law; not legal. [Little used.]
695 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRISONER.1 (Noah Webster)
PRISONER, n. One who is confined in a prison by legal arrest or warrant.
696 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRIVILEGE.3 (Noah Webster)
He pleads the legal privilege of a Roman.
697 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROCEEDING.2 (Noah Webster)
… a legal or an illegal proceeding, a cautious proceeding, a violent proceeding. In the plural, the proceedings of the legislature have been wise and salutary …
698 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROMISE.3 (Noah Webster)
… , his legal representatives, to do or forbear some act; and gives to the promisee a legal right to demand and enforce a fulfillment.
699 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROPERTY.8 (Noah Webster)
6. The thing owned; that to which a person has the legal title, whether in his possession or not. It is one of the greatest blessings of civil society that the property of citizens is well secured.
700 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROPRIETOR.1 (Noah Webster)
… the legal right or exclusive title to any thing whether in possession or not; as the proprietor of a farm or of a mill. By the gift of God, man is constituted the …