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Category: P

PATENT SUIT

the term given to a law suit dealing with the validity of a patent or the alleged violation of a patent.

PLEADING ARTICULATED

a plea that sets out separate and numbered paragraphs for responses to each issue or fact of a suit.

PUBLIC RULING

the term that is used for a ruling that will affect the entire general public.

PLEVIN

the term that is used for a warrant, an assurance or a security.

PLEA AFFIRMATIVE

the term that is given to the answer to a charge that contains a fact that will destroy the plaintiff’s case.

PROCEEDING LEGAL

the term that is given to the action or a case that is being tried in court.

PROPERTY REAL

a term used for land and anything that is on it like buildings and things beneath it or growing on it.

PRETERMITTED HEIR

the name applied to a person who was born after a dead person executed his will but before he died.

PROPERTY PRIVATE

the term that describes property belonging to a person or person’s and not to a community.

PURGING CONTEMPT

the act to atone for a contempt of court done by apologising and paying a fine.

PERFECT EQUITY

a term given to the equity or the interest of a buyer in real estate who has fulfilled obligations to the owner.

PERSONAL INDIGNITY

term used for the suffering of repeated humiliation and ridicule that is often grounds for divorce.

PERFECT INSTRUMENT

the term applied to a deed or instrument that is perfect when it is filed and recorded.

PARTY AND PARTY

a term that is sued to refer to both the plaintiff and the defendant, who are the 2 litigants in a law suit.

POSSESSOR MALA FIDE

a person who occupies and controls property as if he were the title holder but knows that he is not.

PROPAGATE

a term that is used to1. Reproducer 2. to spread information.

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