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principal

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principal
I adjective cardinal, chief, controlling, dominant, essential, first, foremost, hegemonic, hegemonical, highest, leading, main, most considerable, most important, most powerful, outstanding, paramount, predominant, preeminent, prevailing, primal, primary, prime, primus, princeps, principalis, prominent, ruling, stellar, supereminent, supreme associated concepts: principal activity, principal contract, principal contractor, principal obligation, principal place of business, principal sum, principal wrongdoing foreign phrases:
- Omne principale trah it ad se accessorium. — Every principal thing draws the accessory to itself
- Quae accessionum locum obtinent, extinguuntur cum principales res peremptae fuerint. — When the principal thing is destroyed, those things which are accessory to it are also destroyed
- Sublato principali, tollitur adjunctum. — By the removal of the principal thing, the adjunct is also taken
II (capital sum) noun assets, assets in hand, capital, caput, circulating capital, economic resources, fixed capital, fund, funds, gross amount, holdings, invested sum, main body, material assets, money, nummi, original sum, principal part, property, resources, sors, sum, sum total, tangible assets, totality, wealth, whole, working capital III (director) noun boss, chief, chief actor, chief authority, chief executive, chief party, chieftain, commandant, commander, controller, directing head, director, employer, engager of services, executive, executive officer, foreperson, governor, head, head person, magister, manager, master, overlooker, overseer, owner, person in authority, person in charge, proprietor, senior, superintendent, superior, supervisor, taskmaster associated concepts: partially disclosed principal, principal in the first degree, undisclosed principal foreign phrases:
- Nullus dicitur accessorius post feloniam, sed ille qui novit principalem feloniam feclsse, et ilium receptavlt et comfortavit. — No one is called an "accessory" after the fact but the one who knew the principal had committed a felony, and who received and comforted him
- Nullus dicitur felo principalis nisi actor, aut qui praesens est, abettans aut auxilians ad feioniam faciendam. — No one is called a principal felon except the party actually committing the felony, or the person who is present, aiding and abetting in its commission
- Res accessoria sequitur rem principalem. — An accessory follows the principal
- Qui per alium facit per seipsum facere videtur. — He who acts through another is deemed as having acted himself
- Ubl non est principalis, non potest esse accessorius. — Where there can be no principal, there cannot be an accessory
IV index accomplice, assets, cardinal (basic), cash, central (essential), chairman, chief, corpus, critical (crucial), director, dominant, fundamental, important (significant), leading (ranking first), major, material (important), necessary (required), noteworthy, outstanding (prominent), paramount, predominant, primary, prime (most valuable), professional (stellar), prominent, protagonist, salient, stellar, substantive, superlative, vital

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


principal
adj.
Most important; main.
n.
(1) The person with the highest authority in some organization; the chief, such as the principal of a school.
(2) A person who directs an agent to act on his or her behalf.
(3) A person who commits a crime; the person directly responsible for a crime.
(4) A sum of money invested or borrowed, on which interest is paid or charged.

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.


principal
See agency.

Collins dictionary of law. . 2001.


principal
1) In commercial law, the total amount of a loan, not including any capitalized fees or interest.
2) When creating a power of attorney or other legal document, the person who appoints an attorney-in-fact or agent to act on his or her behalf.
3) In the law of trusts, the property of the trust, as opposed to the income generated by that property. The principal is also known as the trust corpus (that's Latin for "body").
4) In criminal law, the main perpetrator of a crime.
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Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. . 2009.


principal
1 adj. Of greatest importance.
2 n. One who authorizes another to act in his or her behalf as an agent; any person involved in the commission of a criminal act.
@ disclosed principal
A principal whose identity is shared by his or her agent with the third party.
=> principal.
@ principal in the first degree
The actual perpetrator of a crime.
Compare principal in the second degree
=> principal.
@ principal in the second degree
Someone who assists in some way the principal in the first degree.
Compare principal in the first degree
=> principal.
@ undisclosed principal
A principal whose identity is kept secret by his agent. Both the undisclosed principal and the authorized agent are liable for fulfilling the provisions of a contract.
=> principal.
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Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.


principal
A source of authority; a sum of a debt or obligation producing interest; the head of a school. In an agency relationship, the principal is the person who gives authority to another, called an agent, to act on his or her behalf. In criminal law, the principal is the chief actor or perpetrator of a crime; those who aid, abet, counsel, command, or induce the commission of a crime may also be principals. In investments and banking, the principal refers to the person for whom a broker executes an order; it may also mean the capital invested or the face amount of a loan.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


principal
A source of authority; a sum of a debt or obligation producing interest; the head of a school. In an agency relationship, the principal is the person who gives authority to another, called an agent, to act on his or her behalf. In criminal law, the principal is the chief actor or perpetrator of a crime; those who aid, abet, counsel, command, or induce the commission of a crime may also be principals. In investments and banking, the principal refers to the person for whom a broker executes an order; it may also mean the capital invested or the face amount of a loan.

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