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Pocket

Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use

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Pick-pocket, or Pick-purse

Pick-pocket, or Pick-purse, a thief who steals by putting his hand privately into the pocket or purse of another: an offence punishable with great severity in early times and still a felony as

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Pocket-sheriff

Pocket-sheriff. When the sovereign appoints a person sheriff who is not one of the three nominated in the King's

deep pocket

deep pocket 1 : a person or organization having substantial financial resources esp. for the purpose of paying damages 2

out-of-pocket

out-of-pocket : requiring an outlay of cash [ expenses]

out-of-pocket rule

out-of-pocket rule : a measure of damages from fraud used in some jurisdictions that is based on the difference between the amount paid by the plaintiff and the market value of the thing paid for rather...

pocket veto

pocket veto : a veto of legislation that occurs indirectly when an executive refrains from signing the legislation and

Out-of-pocket rule

Out-of-pocket rule, means the principle that a defrauded buyer may recover from the seller as damages the difference between the amount paid for the property and the actual value received, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p....

Pocket-judgment

Pocket-judgment, a statute-merchant which was enforceable at any time after non-payment on the day assigned, without further proceedings. See

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