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PICKETING

PETO

ed from imaginary or fictitious; real, having relation to facts, as distinguished from moral or constructive. —Physical disability. See DISABILITY.— Physical fact. In the law of evidence. A fact having a physical existence, as distinguish ed from a mere conception of the mind; one which is visible, audible, or palpable; such as the sound of a pistol shot, a man running, im pressions of human feet on the ground. Burrill, Circ. Bv. 130. A fact considered to have its seat in some inanimate being, or, if in an ani mate being, by virtue, not of the qualities by which it is constituted animate, but of those which it has in common with the class of in animate beings. 1 Benth. Jud. Ev. 45 — Physi cal force. Force applied to the body; actual violence. State v. Wells, 31 Conn. 212.— Phy sical incapacity. In the law of marriage and divorce, impotence, inability to accomplish sexual coition, arising from incurable physical imperfection or malformation. Anonymous, 89 Ala. 291, 7 South. 100, 7 L. R. A. 425, 18 Am. St. Rep 116; Franke v. Franke (Cal.) 31 Pac. 574, 18 L. R. A. 375.— Physical injury. Bod ily harm or hurt, excluding mental distress, fright, or emotional disturbance. Deming v. Chicago, etc., R. Co., 80 Mo. App. 157.— Physi cal necessity. A condition in which a per son is absolutely compelled to act in a particu lar way by overwhelming superior force; as distinguished from moral necessity, which arises where there is a duty incumbent upon a ration al being to perform, which he ought at the time to perform. The Fortitude, 3 Sumn. 248, Fed. Cas. No. 4,953. PHYSICIAN. A practitioner of medi cine ; a person duly authorized or licensed to treat diseases; one lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine, without reference to any particular school. State v. Beck, 21 R. I. 288, 43 Atl. 366, 45 L. R. A. 269; Raynor v. State, 62 Wis. 289, 22 N. W. 430; Nelson v. State Board of Health, 108 Ky. 769, 57 S. W. 501, 50 L. R. A. 383. a subterfuge or evasion considered morally justifiable on account of the ends sought to be promoted. Particularly applied to an evasion or disregard of the laws in the interests of religion or religious institutions, such as circumventing the statutes of mort main. PIA FRATTS. Lat. A pious fraud;

PETO.

Lat In Roman law. I request

A common word by which a

fldeicommis

or trust, was created in a will. Inst

sum,

2, 24, 3.

PETRA.

A stone weight. OowelL

PETTIFOGGER. A lawyer who is em ployed in a small or mean business, or who carries on a disreputable business by unprin cipled or dishonorable means. "We think that the term 'pettifogging shyster' needed no definition by witnesses before the jury. This combination of epithets, every lawyer and citizen knows, belongs to none but unscrupulous practitioners who disgrace their profession by doing mean work, and resort to sharp practice to do it." Bailey v. Kalamazoo Pub. Co., 40 Mich. 256. Small, minor, of less or incon siderable importance. The English form of "petit," and sometimes used instead of that word in such compounds as "petty jury," "petty larceny," and "petty treason." See PETIT. —Petty bag office. In English law. An of fice in the court of chancery, for suits against attorneys and officers of the court, and for pro cess and proceedings by extent on statutes, re cognizances, ad quod damnum, and the like. Termes de la Ley.— Petty officers. Inferior officers in the naval service, of various ranks and kinds, corresponding to the non-commis sioned officers in the army. See U. S. v. Fuller, 160 U. S. 593, 16 Sup. Ct. 386, 40 L. Ed. 549. As to petty "Average," "Constable," and "Sessions," see those titles. FEW. An inclosed seat in a church. O'Hear v. De Goesbriand, 33 Vt. 606, 80 Am. Dec. 653; Trustees of Third Presbyterian Congregation v. Andruss, 21 N. J. Law, 328; Gay v. Baker, 17 Mass. 435, 9 Am. Dec. 159, PHAROS. A watch-tower, light-house, or sea-mark. PHLEBITIS. In medical jurisprudence. An inflammation of the veins, which may originate in septicemia (bacterial blood poisoning) or pyemia, (poisoning from pus), and is capable of being transmitted to other tissues, as, the brain or the muscular tissue of the heart In the latter case, an inflam mation of the heart is produced which is called "endocarditis" and which may result fatally. See Succession of Bidwell, 52 La. Ann. 744, 27 South. 281. PHOTOGRAPHER. Any person who makes for sale photographs, ambrotypes, daguerrotypes, or pictures, by the action of light Act Cong. July 13, 1866, {9; 14 St at Large, 120. PHYLASIST. A jailer. Relating or pertaining to the body, as distinguished from the mind or soul or the emotions; material, substantive, having an objective existence, as distinguish PETTY. PHYSICAL.

PIACLE.

An obsolete term for an enor

mous crime.

PICAROON.

A robber; a plunderer.

PICK-LOCK.

An instrument by which

locks are opened without a key.

PICK OF LAND. running into a corner. PICKAGE.

A narrow slip of land

Money paid at fairs for

breaking ground for booths.

PICKERY. In Scotch law. Petty theft; stealing of trifles, punishable arbitrarily. Bell. PICKETING, by members of a trade union on strike, consists in posting members