Category: P

A public declaration re-gpecting something. Cod. 10, 41, 6

In old English law. An offer or proffer; an offer or endeavor to proceed ln an action, by any man concerned to do so. Cowell

IA. L. Lat. He pro-duces in court. In old practice, these words were inserted in a declaration, as an allega-tion that the plaintiff was ready to produce, or did actually produce, lu court, the deed or other written instrument on which his suit was founded, ln order that the court might inspect the same and […]

Lat. In the civil law. That which descends to us from our as-cendants. Dig. 23, 3, 5

In a profane manner. A technical word in Indictments for the stat-utory offense of profanity. See Updegraph v. Com., 11 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 394

That which has not been consecrated. By a profane place is under-stood one which ls neither sacred non sancti-fied nor religious. Dig. 11, 7, 2, 4

In old English law. Production of suit; the production by a plaintiff of his secta or witnesses to prove the allegations of his count See 3 Bl. Comm. 295

In political economy. The creation of objects which constitute wealth. The requisites of production are

The party calling a witness under the old system of the English ec-deslastical courts

To bring forward; to show or exhibit; to bring into view or notice; as, to produce books or writings at a trial in obedience to a subpoena duces tecum

A person whose occupation lt is to buy or sell agricultural or farm products. 14 U. S. St at Large, 117; U. S. v. Simons, 1 Abb. (U. S.) 470, Fed. Cas. No. 16,291

Treasonably. This is a technical word formerly used ln indict-ments for treason, when they were written in Latin. Tomlins

Treason; treachery

A traitor

Lat Ia Roman law. A prodigal; a spendthrift; a person whose extravagant habits manifested an inability to administer his own affairs, and for whom a guardian might therefore be appointed

A pimp; one that procures the seduction or prostitution of girls. They are punishable by statute in England and America

In old English law. A female agent or attorney ln fact Fleta, lib. 3, c. 4, fi 4

In Scotch law. A form of proceeding by which a vassal authorizes the feu to be re-turned to his superior. Bell. It is anal-ogous to the surreuder of copyholds in Eng-land.

The old name for church-ward-ens. Paroch. Antiq. 562

In old English law. The procuratory or instrument by which any person or community constituted or delegated their procurator or proctors to represent them in any judicial court or cause. Cowell

In tbe civil law. A

In ecclesiastical law. Certain sums of money which parish priests pay yearly to the bishops or archdeacons ratione vtoitationis. Dig. 3, 39, 25; Ayl. Par. 429

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Lat To take care of another’s affairs for him, or in his behalf; to manage; to take care of or superintend

The writing or Instru-ment which authorizes a procurator to act. Cowell; Termes de la Ley

The generation of children. one of the principal ends of marriage Is the procreation of chlldren. Inst tit. 2, in pr

A procurator, proxy, or attorney. More particularly, an officer of the admiralty and ecclesiastical courts whose duties and business correspond exactly to tbose of an attorney at law or solicitor in chancery

The act of causing some state matters to be published or made generally known. A written or printed doc-ument in which are contained such matters, issued by proper authority. 3 Inst. 162; 1 Bl. Comm. 170

An officer of the English court of common pleas

To promulgate; to an-nounce; to publish, by governmental author-ity, intelligence of public acts or transactions or other matters important to be known by the people

An error in chronol-ogy; dating a thing before it happened

Lat In the Roman law. A girding or preparing for battle. Testa-mentum in proeinctu, a will made by a soldier, while girding himself, or preparing to engage in battle. Adams, Rom. Ant. 62: Calvin

L. Fr. Next. A term somewhat used in modern law, and more fre-quently in the old law; as prochein ami, prochein cousin. Co. Litt. 10

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A proceeding to determine boundaries, in use in some of the United States, similar in all respects to the English perambulation, (q. v

In French law. A written report, whlch ls signed, setting forth a statement of facts. This term ls applled to the report proving the meeting and the resolutions passed at a meeting of shareholders, or to the report of a commission to take testimony. It can also be applied to the statement drawn up by […]

In practice. This word is generally defined to be the means of compel* ling the defendant in an action to appear in

Issues; produce; money obtained by the sale of property; the sum, amount, or value of property sold or converted into money or into other property. See Hunt ?. williams, 126 lnd. 493, 26 N. E. 177; Andrews v. Johns, 59 ohio St. 65, 51 N. E. 880; Belmont v. Ponvert, 35 N. Y. Super. Ct. […]

In practice. The steps or measures taken in the course of an action, including all that are taken. The proceedings of a suit embrace all matters that occur in its progress judicially. Morewood v. Holllster, 6 N. Y. 320

In a general sense, the form and manner of conducting juridical business before a court or judlclal ofiicer; regular and orderly progress ln form of law; lnclndlng all possible steps in an action from its commencement to the execution of jndg-ment ln a more particular Bense, any ap-plicatlon to a court of justice, however made, […]

In practice. A writ by which a cause which has been removed from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari or otherwise is sent down again to the same court, to be proceeded in there, where lt ap-pears to the superior court that lt was removed on insufficient grounds. Cowell; 1 Tidd, Pr. 408, […]

This word Is commonly opposed to the sum of legal prlnclples coustl-tuting the substance of the law, and denotes

Lat

Lat It is tried or proved

In old English law. Strictly, an accomplice in felony who to save himself confessed the fact, and charged or accused any other as principal or accessory, against whom he was bound to moke good his charge. It also signified an approver, or one who undertakes to prove a crime charg-ed upon another. Jacob. See State […]

RM. This name is giv-en, ln the practice of the English admiralty courts, to the space of time allowed for the taklng of testimony in an actlon, after lssue formed

one who is upon trial. A convlcted offender who ls allowed to go at large, under suspension of sentence, during good behavlor

In the law of evidence. Having the effect of proof; tending to prove, or actually proving

The act of proving; evi-dence; proof. Also trial; test; the time of novitiate. Used in the latter sense In the monastic orders

Lat Proof; more particularly dlrect, as distlngulshed from indirect or circumstantial* evidence