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Example sentences for "private persons"

  • Private persons, whether bearing arms or not, are as much bound as their superiors by the engagements they contract with an enemy.

  • Private persons first beget errors in the multitude and make them public; and publicness of them begets them again in private persons.

  • Or Particular to private persons, according to Subs.

  • They are founded by private persons, and on private property.

  • It is not the money of the public, but of private persons, which is dispensed.

  • They may bring in return the property which is to come, and no ships belonging to private persons shall be sent.

  • This was given as to private persons, but not that the ships should be navigated on their account or under their administration, or that they should exercise any more authority than that of a passenger.

  • The trading vessels lost in the Pacific are being replaced by new ones built at Acapulco; and the viceroy has sent over some ships "in trust" of private persons--a plan which is censured.

  • Sidenote: Vicarious in contradistinction to original State Responsibility for Acts of Private Persons.

  • An act was made to confirm deeds of private persons, dated during Jane's ten days, concerning which some doubt had arisen.

  • It is a trust which relates to public charities, and is not held for the benefit of private persons, e.

  • On the latter method the work of relief is left to general charity, or to private persons, or to the poor-law; and the effort is made to help the family to self-support by a friendly visitor.

  • On the merchandise carried in the ships despatched on the account of our royal treasury, no less freight charges shall be collected than those caused in the ships of private persons, so that the cost of the merchandise may be assured.

  • Those [Dutch] ships also seized a large champan which had been left behind, and which carried a cargo of food and goods, belonging both to the king and to private persons.

  • Not only did the courts of justice decide almost all differences between private persons, but in very many cases they acted as arbiters between private persons and the State.

  • Apart from their abnormal size, these cases are characterised by the same simplicity which distinguishes other mummy-cases of royal or private persons of the same period.

  • The gold and silver vessels used in the service of the temples, and in the houses of private persons, shared the fate of the statues.

  • Portrait statues of private persons, especially those found at Thebes, are, so far as I have seen, decidedly bad, the execution being rude and the expression vulgar.

  • They are neither missed in the Commonwealth, nor lamented by private Persons.

  • There were also in the interior of the temple other images which had been dedicated by private persons.

  • If private persons failed to set the law in motion the local justices were to do so.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each extremity; even for; felt disposed; private apartments; private cabinet; private companies; private company; private conversation; private corporations; private estate; private hands; private inquiry; private interest; private life; private matter; private member; private office; private parties; private person; private rights; private sector; private ship; private sitting; private station; private tutor; shall need