PETIT
Categories: Constitutional
Definition (1910 Edition)
Fr. Small: minor; inconsiderable. Used in several compounds, and some times written “petty.”’
—Petty bag office. In English law. An office in the court of chancery, for suits against attorneys and officers of the court, and for process and proceedings by extent on statutes, recognizances, ad quod damnu and the like. Termes de la Ley.—Petty officers. Inferior officers in the nava)] service, of various ranks and kinds, corresponding to the non-commissioned officers in the army. See U. 8S. 160 U. S. 598, 16 Sup. Ct. 386, 40 L. Ed. 549.
—Petty bag office. In English law. An office in the court of chancery, for suits against attorneys and officers of the court, and for process and proceedings by extent on statutes, recognizances, ad quod damnu and the like. Termes de la Ley.—Petty officers. Inferior officers in the nava)] service, of various ranks and kinds, corresponding to the non-commissioned officers in the army. See U. 8S. 160 U. S. 598, 16 Sup. Ct. 386, 40 L. Ed. 549.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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