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A map, chart or design; being a delineation or projection on a plane surface of the ground lines of a house, farm, street, city, etc., reduced in absolute length, but preserving their relative positions and proportion. Jenney v. Des Moines, 103 Iowa, 347, 72 N. W. 550; Wetherill v. Penney 1" vania R. Co., 195 Pa. 156, 45 Ati. 658. … [Read more...] about PLAN

A prior planned period of maintenance work where customers or parties affected are given prior notice. Usually periodic in nature. … [Read more...] about PLANNED MAINTENANCE

The fixtures tools machinery and apparatus which are necessary to carry on a trade or business. … [Read more...] about PLANT

A patent issued for new strains of asexually reproducing plants. Plant patents last for 17 years from the date the patent issues. … [Read more...] about PLANT PATENT

In English law. A colony; an original settlement in a new country. See 1 Bl. Comm. 107. In American law. A farm; a large cultivated estate. Used chiefly in the southern states. In North Carolina, "plantation" signifies the land a man owns which he is cultivating mote or less in annual crops. Strictly, it designates the place planted; but in wills it is generally used to denote … [Read more...] about PLANTATION