Pacification - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: pacificationpacific
Of or pertaining to peace of a peaceful character not warlike not quarrelsome as a pacific nature or condition...
pacifical
Of or pertaining to peace pacific...
severalty
severalty [Anglo-French severalté separation, individual ownership, from several separate, several] 1 : sole, separate, and exclusive ownership : one's own right without a joint interest in another person [agrees to assign the lease, or some portion of it (in common or in ) to another operator "Pacific Enterprises Oil Co. v. Pacific Petroleum Corp., 614 So. 2d 409 (1993)"] [held the estate in ] 2 : the quality or state of being individual, particular, or several ...
Japan current
A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific called also Kuro Siwo or Black Stream in allusion to the deep blue of its water It is similar in may ways to the Gulf Stream...
Kidnapping
Kidnapping [fr. kind, Dut., a child, and nap, to steal], the forcible abduction or stealing away of a man, woman, or child from their own country, and sending them into another. It is an offence punishable at Common Law by fine and imprisonment; and the kidnapping a child under fourteen is made felony by the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100), s. 56.See also (English) Pacific Islanders Protection Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 19) (amended by 38 & 39 Vict. c. 51), for the prevention and punishment of criminal outrages upon natives of the islands in the Pacific Ocean....
Severalty
Severalty, means sold, separate, and exclusive ownership; one's own right without a joint interest in another person, Pacific Enterprises Oil Co. v. Pacific Petroleum Corp., 614 So 2d 409 (1993)....
nuisance
nuisance [Anglo-French nusaunce, from Old French nuire to harm, from Latin nocēre] : something (as an act, object, or practice) that invades or interferes with another's rights or interests (as the use or enjoyment of property) by being offensive, annoying, dangerous, obstructive, or unhealthful at·trac·tive nuisance 1 : a thing or condition on one's property that poses a risk to children who may be attracted to it without realizing the risk by virtue of their youth 2 : a doctrine or theory employed in most jurisdictions: a possessor of property may be liable for injury caused to a trespassing or invited child by a condition on the property if he or she failed to use ordinary care in preventing such injury (as by fencing in a pool) and had reason to foresee entry by the child and if the utility of the condition was minor compared to the likelihood of injury [declined to extend the doctrine of attractive nuisance…to moving trains "Honeycutt v. City of Wichita,...
Balsa
A raft or float used principally on the Pacific coast of South America...
Barracuda
Any of several voracious pikelike marine fishes allied to the gray mullets constituting the genus Sphyraeligna and family Sphyraelignidaelig The great barracuda Sphyraeligna barracuda of the West Indies Florida etc is often six feet or more long and as dangerous as a shark In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous Sphyraeligna Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyraeligna sphyraeligna of Europe are smaller species and are used as food...
beachcomber
A vagrant seaman usually of low character who loiters about seaports particularly on the shores and islands of the Pacific Ocean...
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