priori petenti (prI-or-I p[schwa]-ten-tI). [Latin “to the first person applying”] Wills & estates. The principle that when two or more persons are equally entitled to administer an estate, the court will appoint the person who applies first.
cousin. 1. A child of one’s aunt or uncle. — Also termed first cousin; full cousin; cousin-german. 2. A relative descended from one’s ancestor (such as a grandparent) by two or more steps in a diverging line. 3. Any distant relative by blood or marriage; a kinsman or kinswoman. cousin-german. A first cousin; a child
prevention. Civil law. The right of one of several judges having concurrent jurisdiction to exercise that jurisdiction over a case that the judge is first to hear.
engagement slip. A note sent by a lawyer to a court informing the court that the lawyer is professionally engaged in a second court on a given day and thus cannot appear before the first court on that day as scheduled. • The term is used in Pennsylvania.
A witness who, having been at the scene of an incident, can give a firsthand account of what happened. See RES GESTAE. [Cases: Criminal Law 363; Evidence 120. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 867–870; Evidence § 349.]
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Berne Additional Protocol. Copyright. A 1914 amendment to the Berne Convention providing for reprisals against a foreign national who publishes simultaneously in both a member nation and the author’s own nonmember and nonreciprocating country. • The reprisal was aimed at the United States, which until 1989 refused to join the Berne Convention but whose citizens
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A city, town, or other local political entity formed by charter from the state and having the autonomous authority to administer the state’s local affairs. — Also termed municipality. Cf. quasi-corporation under CORPORATION. [Cases: Municipal Corporations 1.1. C.J.S. Municipal Corporations §§ 2–7.]
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enrolled agent 〈美〉(税收)注册代理人；在编代理人 准许在国内税务署〔IRS〕执业的人员，一般通过考试或者在某一专门地区为国内税务署工作五年以上而获得执业许可。准许在国内税务署执业的有四类人，除了注册代理人，其他三类为：律师、注册会计师、在某些特定案件中准许代表自己或他人的人。
captation (kap-tay-sh[schwa]n).Civil law. Coercion of a testator resulting in the substitution of another person’s desires for those of the testator. • The term formerly applied to the first stage of a hypnotic trance. Cf. UNDUE INFLUENCE . [Cases: Wills 154. C.J.S. Wills § 345.]