KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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PATENT

PASSIAGIARIUS

In modern European law. A warrant of protection and authority to travel, granted to persons moving from place to place, by the competent officer. Brande. PASTO. In Spanish law. Feeding; pas ture; a right of pasture. White, New Recopi. b. 2, tit 1, c. 6, § 4. PASTOR. Lat. A shepherd- Applied to a minister of the Christian religion, who has charge of a congregation, hence called his "flock." See First Presbyterian Church v. Myers, 5 Okl. 809, 50 Pac. 70, 38 L. R. A. 687. PASTURE. Land on which cattle are fed; also the right of pasture. Co. Litt 46. PASTUS. In feudal law. The procura tion or provision which tenants were bound to make for their lords at certain times, or as often as they made a progress to their lands. It was often converted into money. PATEAT UNIVERSES PER PRX SENTES. Know all men by these presents. Words with which letters of attorney ancient ly commenced. Reg. Orig. 305&, 306. PATENT, adj. Open; manifest; evident; unsealed. Used in this sense in such phrases as "patent ambiguity," "patent writ," "letters patent." —Letters patent. Open letters, as distin guished from letters close. An instrument pro ceeding from the government, and conveying a right, authority, or grant to an individual, as a patent for a tract of land, or for the exclu sive right to make and sell a new invention. Familiarly termed a "patent." See Interna tional Tooth Crown Co. v. Hanks Dental Ass'n (C. C.) Ill Fed. 918.— Patent ambiguity. See AMBIGUITY.— Patent defect. In sales of personal property, one which is plainly visible or which can be discovered by such an inspec tion as would be made in the exercise of ordi nary care and prudence. See Lawson v. Baer, 52 N. C. 461.— Patent writ. In old practice. An open writ; one not closed or sealed up. See CLOSE WEITS. PATENT, n. A grant of some privilege, property, or authority, made by the govern ment or sovereign of a country to one or more individuals. Phil. Pat. 1. In English law. A grant by the sover eign to a subject or subjects, under the great seal, conferring some authority, title, fran chise, or property; termed "letters patent" from being delivered open, and not closed up from inspection. In American law. The instrument by which a state or government grants public lands to an individual. A grant made by tne government to an in ventor, conveying and securing to him the exclusive right to make and sell his invention for a term of years. Atlas Glass Co. v. Si monds Mfg. Co., 102 Fed. 647, 42 C. C. A. 554; Societe Anonyme v. General Electric Co,

the performance of that contract, received under his care either upon the means of con veyance, or at the point of departure of that means of conveyance. Bricker r. Philadel phia & R. R. Co., 132 Pa. 1, 18 Atl. 983, 19 Am. St. Rep. 585; Schepers v. Union De pot R. Co., 126 Mo. 665, 29 S. W. 712; Penn sylvania R. Co. v. Price, 96 Pa. 256; The Main v. Williams, 152 U. S. 122, 14 Sup. ,Ct 486, 38 L. Ed. 381; Norfolk & W. R. Co. v. Tanner, 100 Va. 379, 41 S. E. 721. PASSIAGIARIUS. A ferryman. Jacob. PASSING-TICKET. In English law. A kind of permit, being a note or check which the toll-clerks on some canals give to the boatmen, specifying the lading for which they have paid toll. Wharton. PASSIO. Pannage; a liberty for hogs to run in forests or woods to feed upon mast. Mon. Angl. 1, 682. In the definition of man slaughter as homicide committed without premeditation but under the influence of sud den "passion," this term means any intense and vehement emotional excitement of the kind prompting to violent and aggressive ac tion, as, rage, anger, hatred, furious resent ment, or terror. See Stell v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 58 S. W. 75; State v. Johnson, 23 N. C. 362, 35 Am. Dec. 742. As used in law, this term means inactive; permissive; consisting in endurance or submission, rather than action; and in some connections it carries the impli cation of being subjected to a burden or charge. As to passive "Debt," "Title," "Trust," and "Use," see those titles. In international law. A document issued to a neutral' merchant vessel, by her own government, during the progress of a war, and to be carried on the voyage, containing a sufficient description of the vessel, master, voyage, and cargo to evi dence her nationality and protect her against the cruisers of the belligerent powers. This paper is otherwise called a "pass," "sea pass," "sea-letter," "sea-brief." A license or safe-conduct, issued during the progress of a war, authorizing a person to re move himself or his effects from the territory of one of the belligerent nations to another country, or to travel from country to country without arrest or detention on account of the war. In American law. A special instrument intended for the protection of American ves sels against the Barbary powers, usually called a "Mediterranean pass." Jac Sea Laws, 69. PASS ION. PASSIVE. PASSPORT.