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Category: P

Primary Use

How a vehicle is primarily used, such as for work, pleasure, etc.

Per Person Limits

The maximum amount an insurance company will pay under a policy to each person injured in an accident.

Per-Occurrence Limits

A cap on the amount an insurance company pays under a policy for all claims arising from a single accident.

PARTNERSHIP DEBT

a term that is used for the debt or the obligation of a partnership and not to an individual.

PROTECTIVE THEORY

a doctrine that allows a local, state or federal government to condemn more land than is needed for a project that is used to enhance and landscape the area.

PRESENT

1. Being in a set place at a given time. 2. To bring a motion before a court.

PRECONDITION

a condition that needs to happen before a thing can take place.

PLACER CLAIM

This term is applied to a mining claim that is made by a private person on public lands for minerals on the surface and not in rocks below it.

PANDERER

term that is used to describe a pimp or a procurer.

PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT

the term that is applied to the misconduct of a prosecutor who needs to use legitimate ways to obtain a conviction.

PERMANENT IMPROVEMENT

the name given to an improvement to property or land that will remain indefinitely and is now an integral part of the property.

PREDATED INSTRUMENT

This means to date a contract or document earlier than the date is was signed and notarised.

POOLED SEMEN

this is a term found in artificial insemination where a husband’s semen is pooled with donated semen.

PRURIENT INTEREST

a term that is used for a morbid interest in sex, nudity and obscene or pornographic matters.

POSSESSION NATURAL

a term that is used when a person physically occupies a property without having the title to it.

PUBLIC FIGURE

A person with fame and notoriety in a community and is involved in the affairs of the community.

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