Category: P

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

To promulgate; to announce: to publish, by governmental authority, intelligence of public acts or transactions or other matters important to be known by tbe people.

in French law, is a public prosecutor, with whom rests the initiation of all criminal proceedings. In the exercise of his office (which appears to include the apprehension of offenders) he Is

Lat. He produces in court. In old practice, these words were inserted in a declaration, as an allegation that the plaintiff was ready to produce, or did actually produce, in court, the

In Roman law. A name given to students of law iti the fifth year of their course; as being in advance of the Lyta>, or students of the fourth year. Calvin.

Proof, in civil process, is a sufficient reason for the truth of a juridical proposition by which a party seeks either to maintain his own claim or to defeat the claim of

See IN PUO- PRIA PERSONA.

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

L. Lat. Protesting. The emphatic word formerly used in pleading by way of protestation. 3 Bl. Comm. 311. See PROTESTATION.

In English practice. A trial brought on by the defendant, in cases where the plaintiff, after issue joined, neglects to proceed to trial; so called from a clause in the writ to

In the civil law. A farmer of the public revenue; one who held a lease of some property from the public treasury. Dig. 39, 4, 1, 1; Id. 39, 4, 12, 3

Fr. Younger; subordinate; associate. The title by which the justices and barons of the several common-law courts at Westminster are distinguished from the chief justice and chief baron.

Absolute; complete; simple; unmixed; unqualified; free from conditions or restrictions; as in the phrases pure charity, pure debt, pure obligation, pure plea, pure villenage, as to which see the nouns.

Lat. A congenital idiot.

Lat. Masters. The chief clerks in chancery were formerly so called, because they had the direction of making out remedial writs. 2 Iteeve, Eng. Law, 251.

The mayor of a town.

In Spanish colonial law. An order emanating from the sov ereign, and differing from a ccdula only In form and in the mode of promulgation. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 93, note.

In English and American law. An order or direction, emanating from authority, to an officer or body of officers, commanding him or them to do some act within the scope of their

One who, by settlement upon the public land, or by cultivation of a portion of it, has obtained the right to purchase a portion of the land thus settled upon or cultivated,

In Spanish law. Pledge. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 7.