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681 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 …
682 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.
683 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.
684 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.
685 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.
686 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 …
687 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.]
688 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRISONER.1 (Noah Webster)
PRISONER, n. One who is confined in a prison by legal arrest or warrant.
689 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRIVILEGE.3 (Noah Webster)
He pleads the legal privilege of a Roman.
690 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 …
691 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.
692 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.
693 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 …
694 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROPRIETRESS.1 (Noah Webster)
PROPRIETRESS, n. A female who has the exclusive legal right to a thing.
695 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROSECUTE.5 (Noah Webster)
2. To seek to obtain by legal process; as, to prosecute a right in a court of law.
696 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROSECUTE.6 (Noah Webster)
… a legal tribunal; as, to prosecute a man for trespass or for a riot. It is applied to civil suits for damages, as well as to criminal suits, but not to suits for debt …
697 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROSECUTE.7 (Noah Webster)
Prosecute differs from persecute, as in law it is applied to legal proceedings only, whereas persecute implies cruelty, injustice or oppression.
698 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROSECUTION.3 (Noah Webster)
… a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment; as prosecutions of the crown or of the state by the attorney or solicitor general. Prosecutions may …
699 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROSECUTOR.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The person who institutes and carries on a criminal suit in a legal tribunal, or one who exhibits criminal charges against an offender. The attorney general is the prosecutor for the king or state.
700 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PURCHASE.1 (Noah Webster)
… . The legal use of the word in obtaining writs, shows best its true origin; to purchase a writ, is to sue out a writ, that is, to seek it out; for sue, seek, and L. sequor, are …