Category: P

The term “privity” means mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property. The executor is in privity with the testator, the heir with the ancestor, the assignee with the assignor,

As a gift; asin case of gift; by title of gift. A species of usucaption in the civil law. Dig. 41, 0.See Id. 5, 3, 13, 1.

To the extent of his power or ability. Bract, fol. 109.

In Saxon law. To Claim a thing as one’s own. Jacob. In modern law language. To make proof, as in the term “onus probandi,” the burden or duty of making proof.

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 v. Williams, 120 Ind. 493,

Lat. Management of another’s affairs by bis direction aud in his behalf; procuration; agency. Procnratio est exhibitio sumptuum necessariorum facta prselatis, qui dioe- ceses peragrando, ecclesias subjectas -visitant. Dav. Ir. K. B.

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 subpccna duces tecum.

That state of a business which is neither the commencement nor the end. Some act doue after the matter has commenced, and before it is completed. Plowd. 343. Proliibetur ne quis faciat

One who makes a promise.

Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandfather’s brother. Inst 3, 6, 3; Bract, fol. 686.

In Spanish law. Property. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 5,

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. See People

The English statute 33 Edw. I. St. 1, allowing a challenge to be entered against a protection, etc.

The word used in introducing a proviso (which see.) Ordinarily it sig nifies or expresses a condition ; but this is not invariable, for, according to the context, it may import a

In English law. An officer of the royal navy who had the charge of prisoners taken at sea, and sometimes also on land. In military law, the of- ficer acting as the

to public notice, or reuderiug it accessible to public scrutiny. 2. As descriptive of tlie publishing of laws and ordinances, “publication” means printing or otherwise reproducing copies of them and distributing them

Lat. In the civil law. To beat; to accuse or charge; to proceed against at law. Calvin.

One who acquires real property in any other mode than by descent. One who acquires either real or personal property by buying it for a price in money; a buyer; vendee. In

As used in constitutional law, this right includes personal freedom, freedom of contract, exemption from oppression or invidious discrimination, the right to follow one’s individual preference in the choice of an occupation

In the law of corporations. The right or capacity to act or be acted upon in a par- ticular manner or in respect to a particular subject; as, the power to have