One lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine. 2. A physician in England cannot recover for fees, as his practice is altogether honorary. A practitioner of medicine ; a person duly authorised or licensed to treat diseases; one lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine, without reference to any particular school. … [Read more...] about PHYSICIAN
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PHYSICIAN PATIENT PRIVILEGE
The right of a physician not to testify or provide evidence with regard to information disclosed by the defendant to the physician during the course and purpose of obtaining treatment, unless the patient consents to such disclosure. … [Read more...] about PHYSICIAN PATIENT PRIVILEGE
PHYSIOLOGY
med. jur. The science which treats of the functions of animals; it is the science of life. 2. The legal practitioner who expects to rise to eminence, must acquire some acquaintance with physiology. This subject is intimately connected with gestation, birth, life and death. … [Read more...] about PHYSIOLOGY
PIA CAUSA
Latin for the term charitable purposes. … [Read more...] about PIA CAUSA
PEW
A seat in a church separated from all others, with a convenient space to stand therein. 2. It is an incorporeal interest in the real property. And, although a man has the exclusive right to it, yet, it seems, he cannot maintain trespass against a person entering it; 1 T. R. 430; but case is the proper remedy. 3. The right to pews is limited and usufructuary, and does not … [Read more...] about PEW