Category: P

Fr. Paternal power. In the French law, the male parent has the following rights over the person of his child: (1) If child is under sixteen years of age, he may procure him to be imprisoned for one month or under. (2) If child is over sixteen and under twenty- one he may procure an imprisonment for six months or under, with power in each case to procure a second period of imprisonment. The female parent, being a widow, may, with the approval of the two nearest relations on the father’s side, do the like. The parent enjoys also the following rights over the property of his child, viz., a right to take the income until the child attains the age of eighteen years, subject to maintaining the child and educating him in a suitable manner. Brown.

An interpreter of the Hindu law ; a learned Brahmin.

When a dealer or trader sell all or some of a money losing position.

In the civil law. The name of an action introduced by the pra;tor Publicius, the object of which was to recover a thing which had been lost Its effects were similar to those of our action of trover. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

Lat. In the civil law. Childhood; the age from seven to fourteen. 4 Bl. Comm. 22.

One versed in, or writing upon, public law, the science and principles of government, or international law.

to public notice, or reuderiug it accessible to public scrutiny. 2. As descriptive of tlie publishing of laws and ordinances, “publication” means printing or otherwise reproducing copies of them and distributing them in such a manner as to make their contents easily accessible to the public; it forms no part of the enactment of the law. “Promulgation,” ou the other hand, seems to denote the proclamation or announcement of the edict or statute as a preliminary to its acquiring the force aud operation of law. But the two terms are ofteu used interchaugeably. Chicago v. McCoy, 136 111. 344, 26 N. E. 363, 11 L. R. A. 413 ; Sholes v. State, 2 Pin. (Wis.) 499. 3. The formal declaration made by a testator at the time of signing his will that it is his last will aud testament. 4 Kent, Comm. 515, and note. In re Simpson, 56 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 134; Comptou v. Mitton, 12 N. J. Law, 70; Lewis v. Lewis, 13 Barb. (N. Y.) 23. 4. In the law of libel, publication denotes the act of making the defamatory matter known publicly, of disseminating it, or communicating it to one or more persons. Wilcox v. Moon, 63 Vt. 481, 22 Atl. 80; Sproul v. Pillsbury, 72 Me. 20; Gambrill v. Schooley, 93 Md. 4S, 48 Atl. 730, 52 L. It. A. 87, 86 Am. St. Rep. 414. 5. In the practice of the states adopting the reformed procedure, aud iu some others, publication of a summons is the process of giving it currency as au advertisement in a newspaper, under the conditions prescribed by law, as a means of giving notice of the suit to a defendant upon whom personal service cannot be made. 6. In equity practice. The making public the depositions taken in a suit, which have previously been kept private in the ollice of the examiner. Publication is said to pass wheu the depositions are so made public, or openly shown, and copies of them given out, in order to the hearing of the cause. 3 Bl. Comm. 450. 7. In copyright law. The act of making public a book, writing, chart, map, etc.; that is, offering or communicating it to the public by the sale or distribution of copies. Keene v. Wheatley, 14 Fed. Cas. ISO; Jewelers’ Mercantile Agency v. Jewelers’ Weekly Pub. Co., 155 N. Y. 241, 49 N. E. 872, 41 L R. A. 846, 63 Am. St. Rep. 606.

The promotion of a news item by mass mdia such as television, radio, newspaper or internet about an event. This is not a sales promotion for items for sale. This type of promotion is usually free of charge.

A questionable practice of downplaying negative business traits and overemphasizing the positive ones.

A news worthy item or story is made available through mass media to the public. Often stories that are meant to be a secret is often made available to the public. This happens to celebrities, politicians and memebers of royal families.