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common-law lawyer.A lawyer who is versed in or practices under a common-law system. — Also termed common lawyer. [Blacks Law 8th]

common-law jurisdiction.See JURISDICTION. [Blacks Law 8th]

common-law husband.See HUSBAND. [Blacks Law 8th]

power. 1. The ability to act or not act; esp., a person’s capacity for acting in such a manner as to control someone else’s responses. 2. Dominance, control, or influence over another; control over one’s subordinates. 3. The legal right or authorization to act or not act; a person’s or organization’s ability to alter, by…

Powell doctrine. See CORRUPT-MOTIVE DOCTRINE. [Blacks Law 8th]

POW. abbr. PRISONER OF WAR. [Blacks Law 8th]

poverty affidavit. See AFFIDAVIT. [Blacks Law 8th]

poverty. 1. The condition of being indigent; the scarcity of the means of subsistence <war on poverty>.2. Dearth of something desirable <a poverty of ideas>. [Blacks Law 8th]

pour seisir terres (poor sI-z<<schwa>>r ter-eez). [Law French “for seizing the lands”] Hist. A writ by which the Crown could seize land that the wife of its deceased tenant, who held in capite, had for her dower if she married without leave. [Blacks Law 8th]

pourpresture (poor-pres-ch<<schwa>>r). [Law French] See PURPRESTURE. [Blacks Law 8th]