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For; on account of. The initial word of several Latin phrases

Lat. By its own force; by its intrinsic meaning.

In Spanish and Mexican law. Productive lands, the usufruct of which had been set apart to the several municipalities for the purpose of defraying the charges of their respective governments. Sheldon v. Milmo, 90 Tex. 1, 36 S. W. 413; Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 554

In Massachusetts colo-nial ordinance of 1741 is nearly, if not pre-clsely, equivalent to property. Com. v. Alger, 7 Cush. (Mass.) 53, 70

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In Spanlsh law. Prop-erty. whlte, New Recop. b. 1, tit 7, c; 5, 12

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Lat. The persou pro-posed; the person from whom a descent is traced

An executor or other per-son ls sald to propound a wlll or other testa-mentary paper when he takes proceedings for obtaining probate in solemn form. The term ls also technically used, ln England, to denote the allegations in the statement of claim, ln an action for probate, by whlch the plaintiff alleges that the testator […]

A slngle loglcal sen-tence; also an ofTer to do a thlng. See Per-ry v. Dwelling House Ins. Co., 67 N. H. 291. 33 Atl. 731, 68 Am. St. Rep. 668; Hubbard ?. woodaum, 87 Me. 88, 32 Atl. 802

In old records. Pur-port; intention or meaning. Cowell

An offer; something prof-fered. An offer, by one person to another, of terms and conditions with reference to some work or undertaking, or for the trans-fer of property, the acceptance whereof will make a contract between them. Eppes v. Mississippi, G. A T. R. Co., 35 Ala. 33

The propounder of a thing. Thus, the proponent of a will is the party who offers it for probate, (q. v

In Spanish law. Certain portions of ground laid off and reserved when a town was founded in Span-ish America as the unalienable property of the town, for the purpose of erecting public bulldings, markets, etc., or to be used in any other way, under the direction of the munic-ipality, for the advancement of the revenues […]

In Sootob law. To state. To propone a defense is to state or move it. 1 Kames, Eq. pref

Lat. In the civil law. The son or daughter of a great-uncle or great-aunt; paternal or maternal. Iust. 3, 6, 3

Rightful dominion over external objects; ownership; the unrestrict-ed and exclusive right to a thing; the right to dispose of the substance of a thing in every legal way, to possess lt, to use it, and to exclude every one else from Interfering with lt. Mackeld. Rom. Law, 8 266

Kindred; parentage

That which is fit, suitable, adapted, and correct. See Knox v. Lee, 12 wall. 457, 20 L. Ed. 287; Griswold v. Hep

Proof, in civil process, ls a sufficient reason for the truth of a Juridical proposition by which a party seeks either to maintain hls own claim or to defeat the claim of another, whart Ev. t 1

Lat. In the civil law. The wife of a grandson or great-grandson. ?Dig. 38, 10, 4, 6

L. Fr. A sentence or decree. Kelham

Lat. In the civil law. A great-granddaughter. Inst 3, 6, 1; Bract fol. 67

First notary. See Pao-THONOTABT

Lnt. In the civil law. A great-grandson. Inst. 3, 6, 1; Bract fol. 67

The order given to cause a law to be executed, and to make it public; lt differs from publication. 1 Bi. Comm. 45

To publish; to an* nounce officially; to make public as Important or obligatory. 8ee wooden v. western New York & P. R. Co. (Super. CL) 18 N. Y. Supp. 769

Lat In Roman law. To make public; to mnke publicly known; to promulgate. To publish or make known a law, after lts enactment

A plaintiff ln a suit of duplex querela, (q. v.) 2 Prob. Dlv. 192

Containing or consist-ing of a promise; in the nature of a promise; stipulating or engaging for a future act or course of conduct

one who makes a prom-ise

one to whom a promise has been made

A declaration, verbal or written, made hy one person to another for a good or valuable consideration iu the na-ture of a covenant hy which the promisor binds himself to do or forbear some act, and gives to the promisee a legal- right to demand and enforce a fulfillment. See Taylor v. Miller, 113 N. […]

In Roman law. A name given to students of iaw in the fifth year of their course; as being ln advance of the Lyttt, or students of the fourth year. Cal-vin

In ecclesiastical law. The president or chairman of a convocation

Time added to the duration of something; an extension of the time limited for the performance of an agree-ment. A prolongation of time accorded to the principal debtor will discharge the sure-ty

TY. The unnecessary and su-perfluous statement of facts in pleading or in evidence. This will be rejected as lmperti-nent. 7 Price, 278, note

In medical jurisprudence. A word used to designate the destruction of the human offspring. Jurists divide the sub-ject into foeticide, or the destruction of the foetus in utero, and infanticide, or the de-struction of the new’-boru infant. Ry. Med. Jur. 280

Lat. In Roman law. A person of poor or mean condition; those among the common people whose fortunes were below a certain valuation ; those who were so poor that they could not serve the state with money, but only with their chil-dren, (proles.) Calvin.; Vicat

Lat. offspring; progeny ; the issue of a lawful marriage

The class of prole-tarii; the lowest stratum of the people of a country, consistiug mainly of the waste of otber classes, or of those fractious of the population who, by their isolation nnd their poverty, have no place ln the established or-der of society

. Fr. In international law. The draft of a proposed treaty or convention

Lat. In old English law. A throwing up of earth by the sea

In practice. The name of a writ issued by a superior court, directed to the judge and parties of a suit ln an in-ferior court, commanding them to cease from the prosecution of the same, upon a sugges-tlon that the cause originally, or some col-lateral matter arising therein, does not be-long to that Jurisdiction, but […]

Those impediments to a marriage which are only followed hy a punishment, but do not render the marriage null. Bowyer, Mod. Civil Law, 44.

Those degrees of relationship by consanguinity which are so close that marriage between persons related to each other In any of such degrees Ib forbidden by law. See State v. Guiton, 51 La. Ann. 155, 24 South. 784

Lat. In the civil law. A grandson-in-law. Dig. 38, 10, 4, 6

That state of a busl-ness which is neither the commencement nor the end. Some act done after the matter has commenced, and before it is completed. Plowd. 343

1. The advance in the price of goods sold beyond the cost of purchase. The gain made by the sale of produce or manufactures, after deducting the value of the labor, materials, rents, and all expenses, together with the interest of the capital employed. webster. See Providence Rubber Co. v. Goodyear, 9 wall. 805, 19 […]

In civil engineering, a drawing representing the elevation of the various points on the plan of a. road, or the like, above some fixed elevation. Pub. St Mass. 1882, p. 1294