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A Law Dictionary · 1910 · p. 11
Power dynamically considered, that is, in motion or in action; constrain in1 power, compulsion; strength directed to an end. usually the word occurs in such connections as to show that unlawful or wrongful action is meant. Watson v. Railway Oo., 7 Misc. Rep. 562, 28 N. Y. Sopp. 84; Plank Road Co. v. Robbins, 22 Barb. (N. Y.)· 667. Unlawful violer ice. It is either simple, as entering upon another's 'po e ion, without doing any other unlawful act; oam.pomuJ, when some other violence is committed, which of it.self alone is criminal; or impUetJ. u in ff trespa , rescous, or di eisin. Power statically considered; that ls at rest, or la.tent, but capable of being called Into activity upon occasion for Its exercise. Em~ cacy; legal valid it,. Thfa fa the meanills [s. 514]
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