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In English law. A kind of permit being a note or check which the toll-clerks on some canals give to the boatmen, specifying the lading for which they have fcaid toll. Wharton. … [Read more...] about PASSING-TICKET

The exclusive right, granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), to use, manufacture, sell and license the use of an invention. Utility patents (for useful items) last for 20 years from the date the patent application was filed and design patents (aesthetic reasons) last for 14 years from the date issued. … [Read more...] about PATENT

n. Permission to pass; a license to go or come; a certificate, emanating from authority, wherein it is declared that a designated person is permitted to go beyand certain boundaries which, without such authority, he could not lawfully pass. Also a ticket issued by a railroad or other transportation company, authorizing a designated person to travel free on its lines, between … [Read more...] about PASS (NOUN)

In the definition of manslaughter as homicide committed without premeditation but under the influence of sudden "passion," this term means any intense and vehement emotional excitement of the kind prompting to violent and aggressive action, as, rage, anger, hatred, furious resentment, or terror. See Stell v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 58 S. W. 75; State v. Johnson, 23 N. C. 362, 35 … [Read more...] about PASSION

adj. Open; manifest; evident; unsealed. Used in this sense in such phrases as "patent ambiguity," "patent writ," "letters patent" Letters patent. Open letters, as distinguished from letters close. An instrument proceeding from the government, and conveying a right, authority, or grant to an individual, as a' patent for a tract of land, or for the exclusive right to make and … [Read more...] about PATENT (ADJ.)