PROPRIETATE PROBANDA, DE. A
writ addressed to a sheriff to try by an inquest in whom certain property, previous to distress, subsisted. Finch, Law, 316.
Terms beginning with "P" (639 total)
PROPRIETATES VERBORUM
distinguished from that acquired by “purchase.”
PROPRIO VIGORE
Lat. By its own force; by its intrinsic meaning. :
PROPRISTE
PROPRIETE. The French law term
PROROGATED JURISDICTION. In
Scotch law. A power conferred by consent
PROSCRIBED
iIn the civil law. Among the Romans, a man was said to be “proscribed” when a reward was offered for his head; but the term was more usually applied to those who were sentenced to some punishment which carried with i...
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY. The
name of the public officer (in several states) who is appointed in each judicial district, circuit, or county, to conduct criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state or people.
PROSECUTION
of the parties upon a judge who would not otherwise be competent.
PROSECUTOR
PROSECUTOR. In practice. He who prosecutes another for a.crime in the name of the government. SPEAKER. This is the official designation of the president or chairman of certain legislative bodies, particularly of the hou...
PROSEQUI
Lat. To follow up or pur. sue; to sue or prosecute. See NOLLE PROSE-
PROSEQUITUR
Lat. He follows up or pursues; he prosecutes. See Non Pros.
PROSOCER
Lat. In the civil law. A ’ father-in-law’s father; grandfather of wife.
PROSOCERUS
Lat. In the civil law. A wife’s grandmother.
PROTECTOR OF SETTLEMENT
7 Coke, 5a. The protection of an individual by government is on condition of his submission to the laws, and such submission on the other hand entitles the individual to the protection of the government. Broom, Max. 78.
PROTECTOR OF SETTLEMENT. In
English law. By the statute 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 74, § 32, power is given to any settlor to appoint any person or persons, not exceeding three, the “protector of the settlement.” The object of such appointment is to pre...
PROTECTORATE
quent estate, the consent of the protector being made necessary for that purpose. - ing which Oliver Cromwell ruled in England. (2) Also the office of protector. (3) The relation of the English sovereign, till
PROTEST
1.A formal declaration made by a person interested or concerned in some act about to be done, or already performed, and in relation thereto, whereby he expresses his dissent or disapproval, or affirms the act to be done ...
PROTESTANDO
L. Lat. Protesting. The emphatic word formerly used in pleading by way of protestation. 3 Bl. Comm 311. See PROTESTATION.
PROTESTATION
amount demanded; the object being to save his right to recover or reclaim the amount, which right would “be lost by his acquies-. cence. Thus, taxes may be paid under “protest.” See Meyer v. Clark, 2 Daly (N. Y.) 5...
PROTHONOTARY
form. of asseveration which approaches very nearly to an oath. Wolff. Inst. Nat. § 375..-
PROTUTOR
Lat. In the civil law. He who, not being the tutor of a minor, hus administered his property or affairs as if he had been, whether he thought himself legally invested with the authority of a tutor or not. Mackeld. Rom. L...
Proud, 2 Barn. & Ald
835; State v. Bartlett, 55 Me. 211; State v. Brown, 9 Baxt. (Tenn.) 64, 40 Am. Rep. 81.
PROUT PATET PER RECORDUM. As
appears by the record. In the Latin phraseology of pleading, this was the proper formula for making reference to a record.
Prouty
vols. 61-68 Vermont.
Prov
190; 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 90.
PROVABLE
L. Fr. figable; manifest. Kelham.
Provident L. & Trust Co
v. Fidelity, etc., Co., 203 Pa. 82, 52 Atl. 34.
Province. See Cod
1, 27, 2. A military Officer having charge of the borders or frontiers of the empire, called “dur lmitis.”
PROVINCIAL OONSTITUTIONS. The
decrees of provincial synods held under divers archbishops of Canterbury, from Stephen Langton, in the reign of Henry III., to Henry Chichele, in the reign of Henry V., and adopted also by the province of York in the rei...
PROVINOCIALIS
Lat. In the civil law. One who has his domicile in a province.
PROVISION
4 Fed. Cas. 1060; In re Bigelow, 3 Fed. Cas.
PROVISION 962
exchange to the drawee in order to meet the bill, or property remaining in the drawee’s hands or due from him to the drawer, and appropriated to that purpose.
PROVISIONES
l[Lat. In English history. Those acts of parliament which were passed to curb the arbitrary power of the crown. See PROVISION.
PROVOCATION
Provisional seizure. A remedy known under the law of Louisiana, and substantially the Same in general nature as attachment of property in other states. Code Proc. La. 284, et seq.
PROVOST
or actions on the part of one person towards another as tend to arouse rage, resentment, or fury in the latter against the former, and thereby cause him to do some Illegal act against or in relation to the person offerin...
PRZA:VARIOATOR
Lat. In the civil law. One who betrays his trust, or is unfaithful to his trust. An advocate who aids the opposite party by betraying his client’s cause. Dig. 47, 15, 1.
PRZAEDIOCTUS
Of the three words, “idem,’’ “predictus,” and
PRZAESCRIPTIONES
Lat. In Roman law. Forms of words (of a qualifying character) inserted in the formule in which the claims in actions were expressed; and, as they occupied an early place in the formule, they were called by this name, i. ...
PRZAESUMPTIO
Lat. Presumption; a presumption. Also intrusion, or the unlawful taking of anything.
PRZAFECTUS VIGILUM
Lat. In Roman law. The chief officer of the night watch. His jurisdiction extended to certain offenses affecting the public peace, and even to larcenies; but he could inflict only slight: punishments. Colg. Rom. Civil La...
PRZAFEOTUS
VILLZ;. The mayor of a town. : ee .
PRZAOCIPE
Lat. In practice. An original writ, drawn up in the alternative, commanding the defendant to do the thing required, or show the reason why he had not done it. 3 Bl. Comm. 274.
PRZDO
Lat. In Roman law. A robber. See Dig. 50, 17, 126.
PRZECEPTORES
Lat. Masters. The chief clerks in chancery were formerly so called, because they had the direction of making out remedial writs. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 251.
PRZEDIAL SERVITUDE
- among immovables, and were called “predia pense, or “volatile estates.” 2 Bl. Comm.
PRZEDIUM
Lat. In the civil law. Tand; an estate; a tenement; a piece of landed property. See Dig. 50, 16, 115.
PRZEJIURAMENTUM
law. <A preparatory oath.
PRZELEGATUM
Lat. In Roman law. A payment in advance of the whole or part of the share which a given heir would be entitled to recelve out of an inheritance ; corresponding generally to “advancement” in English and American law. ...
PRZEOCIPUT CONVENTIONNEL. In
French law. Under the régime en communaduté, when that is of the conventional kind, if the surviving husband or wife is entitled to take any portion of the common property by a paramount title and before partition ther...
PRZESES
Lat. In Roman law. A president or governor. Called a “nomen generate,” including pro-consuls, legates, and all who governed provinces.