KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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PRISON

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Fed. 900. The term may include typewriting. Sunday v. Hagenbuch, 18 Pa. Co. Ct 54L Compare State v. Oakland, ^9 Kan. 784, 77 Pac. 696. —Public printing means such as is directly ordered by the legislature, or performed by the agents of the government authorized to pro cure it to be done. Ellis v. State, 4 Ind. 1. PRIOR. Lat The former; earlier; pre ceding; preferable or preferred. —Prior petens. The person first applying. PRIOR, n. The chief of a convent; next in dignity to an abbot PRIOR, adj. Earlier; elder; preceding; superior in rank, right, or time; as, a prior lien, mortgage, or judgment See Fidelity, etc., Safe Deposit Co. v. Roanoke Iron Co. (C. C.) 81 Fed. 447. Prior tempore potior jure. He who Is first in time is preferred in right Co. Litt 14a; Broom, Max. 354, 358. PRIORI PETENTI. To the person first applying. In probate practice, where there are several persons equally entitled to a grant of administration, (e. g., next of kin of the same degree,) the rule of the court is to make the grant priori petenti, to the first applicant. Browne, Prob. Pr. 174; Coote, Prob. Pr. 173, 180. PRIORITY. A legal preference or pre cedence. When two persons have similar rights in respect of the same subject-matter, but one is entitled to exercise his right to the exclusion of the other, he is said to have pri ority. In old English law. An antiquity of tenure, in comparison with one not so an cient CowelL PRISAGE. An ancient hereditary reve nue of the crown, consisting in the right to take a certain quantity from cargoes of wine imported into England. In Edward I.'s reign it was converted into a pecuniary duty call ed "butlerage." 2 Steph. Comm. 561. PRISE. Fr. In French law. Prize; cap tured property. Ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit. 9. See Dole v. Insurance Co., 6 Allen (Mass.) 373. 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. 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. See Scarborough v. Thornton, 9 Pa. 451; Sturtevant v. Com., 158 Mass. 598, 33 N. E. 648; Pen. Code N. Y. 1903, § 92. —Prison bounds. The limits of the territory surrounding a prison, within which an impris-

way Co., 85 Mo. 588; Railroad Co. v. Bell, 112 Pa. 400, 4 Atl. 50; Lewis v. Seifert, 116 Pa. 628, 11 Atl. 514, 2 Am. St Rep. 631; Minneap olis v. Lundin, 58 Fed. 525, 7 C. C. A. 344; Lindvall v. Woods (C. C.) 44 Fed. 855; Perras v. Booth, 82 Minn. 191, 84 N. W. 739; Van* Dusen v. Letellier, 78 Mich. 492, 44 N. W. 572; Hanna v. Granger, 18 R. I. 507, 28 Atl. 659. As to principal "Challenge," "Contract," "Fact," "Obligation," and "Office," see those titles. PRINCIPALIS. Lat Principal; a prin cipal debtor; a principal In a crime. Principalis debet semper excuti ante qnam perveniatnr ad ndeijussores. The principal should always be exhausted before coming upon the sureties. 2 Inst. 19. Principia data sequuntur concomitant tia. Given principles are followed by their concomitants. Principia probant, non probantur. Principles prove; they are not proved. 3 Coke, 50a. Fundamental principles require no proof; or, in Lord Coke's words, "they ought to be approved, because they cannot be proved." Id. Principiis obsta. Withstand beginnings; oppose a thing in its early stages, if you would do so with success. Frincipiorum non est ratio. There Is no reasoning of principles; no argument Is required to prove fundamental rules. 2 Bulst 239. Principiunt est potissima pars cujus qne rei. 10 Coke, 49. The principle of any thing is its most powerful part PRINCIPLE. In patent law, the princi ple of a machine is the particular means of producing a given result- by a mechanical con trivance Parker v. Stiles, 5 McLean, 44, 63, Fed. Cas. No. 10,749. The .principle of a machine means the mo dus operandi, or that which applies, modifies, or combines mechanical powers to produce a certain result; and, so far, a principle, if new in its application to a useful purpose, may be patentable. See Barrett v. Hall, 1 Mason, 470, Fed. Cas. No. 1,047. PRINCIPLES. Fundamental truths or doctrines of law; comprehensive rules or doctrines which furnish a basis or origin for others; settled rules of action, procedure, or legal determination. PRINTING. The art of impressing let ters; the art of making books or papers by impressing legible characters. Arthur v. Moller, 97 U. S. 365, 24 L. Ed. 1046; Le Roy r. Jamison, 15 Fed. Cas. 373; Forbes Litho graph Mfg. Co. •. Worthington (a C.) 25