Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

PRIVATE CORPORATION

PRISE

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Prius vitiis laboravimus, nuno legi bus. 4 Inst. 76. We labored first with vices, now with laws. PRIVATE. Affecting or belonging to private individuals, as distinct from the pub lic generally. Not official. PRIVATE ACT. A statute operating only upon particular persons and private concerns, and of which the courts are not bound to take notice. PRIVATE AGENT. An agent acting for an individual in his private affairs; as distinguished from a public agent, who rep resents the government in some adminis trative capacity. PRIVATE BILL. All legislative bills which have for their object some particular or private interest are so termed, as distin guished from such as are for the benefit of the whole community, which are thence termed "public bills." PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. An office of the English parliament where the busi ness of obtaining private acts of parliament is conducted. PRIVATE BOUNDARY. An artificial boundary, consisting of some monument or landmark set up by the hand of man to mark the beginning or direction of a boundary line of lands. PRIVATE BRIDGE. One which is not open to the use of the public generally, and does not form part of the highway, but is re served for the use of those who erected it, or their successors, and their licensees. PRIVATE CARRIER. The distinction between a common carrier and a private or special carrier is that the former holds him self out in common, that is, to all persons who choose to employ him, as ready to carry for hire; while the latter agrees, in some special case, with some private individual, to carry for hire. 37 N. Y. 342. PRIVATE CHAPEL. Chapels owned by private persons, and used by themselves and their families, are called "private," as opposed to chapels of ease, which are built for the accommodation of particular districts within a parish, in ease of the original parish church. 2 Steph. Comm. 745. PRIVATE CORPORATION. One which is founded by and composed of private persons, or in which private persons own all

reign it was converted into a pecuniary duty called "batlerage." 2 Steph. Comm. 561. PRISE. Fr. In French law. Prize; captured property. Ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit. 9. PRISEL EN AUTER LIEU. L. Fr. A taking in another place. A plea in abate ment in the action of replevin. 2 Ld. Raym. 1016, 1017. PRISO. A prisoner taken in war. PRISON. A public building for the con finement or safe custody of persons, whether as a punishment imposed by the law or other wise in the course of the administration of justice. PRISON BOUNDS. The limits of the territory surrounding a prison, within which an imprisoned debtor, who is out on bonds, may go at will. See GAOL LIBERTIES. PRISON-BREAKING. The common law offense of one who, being lawfully in custody, escapes from the place where he is confined, by the employment of force and violence. This offense is to be distinguished from "rescue," (q. ©.,) which is a deliver ance of a prisoner from lawful custody by a third person. 2 Bish. Crim. Law, § 1065. PRISONAM FRANGENTIBUS, STATUTE DE. The English statute 1 Edw. H. St. 2, (in Rev. St. 23 Edw. I.,) a still un repealed statute, whereby it is felony for a felon to break prison, but misdemeanor only for a misdemeanant to do so. 1 Hale, P. C. 612. PRISONER. One who is deprived of his libeity; one who is against his will kept in confinement or custody. A person restrained of his liberty upon any action, civil or criminal, or upon command ment. Co well. A person on trial for crime. " The prisoner at the bar." The jurors are told to "look upon the prisoner.** The court, after pass ing sentence, gives orders to "remove the prisoner." PRISONER AT THE BAR, An ac cused person, while on trial before the court, is so called. PRISONER OF WAR. One who has been captured in war while fighting in the army of the public enemy. PRIST. L. Fr. Ready. In the old forms of oral pleading, this term expressed a tender or joinder of issue.

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