Category: P

In criminal law, and in analogous uses elsewhere, to “procure” is to Initiate a proceeding to cause a thing to be done; to instigate; to contrive, bring about, effect, or cause. See

Irreverence towards sacred things; particularly, an irreverent or blasphemous use of the name of God; punishable by statute in some jurisdictions.

The unnecessary and superfluous statement of facts in pleading or in evidence. This will be rejected as impertinent. 7 Price, 278, note.

First notary. See PBO- THONOTARY.

Z Lat. The person proposed : the person from whom a descent Is traced.

Prolonging or putting off to another day. In English law, a pro- rogation is the continuance of the parliament from one session to another, as an ad- journment is a continuation of

quent estate, the consent of the protector being made necessary for that purpose.

In Scotch practice. An action for proving the tenor of a lost deed. Bell.

curring in putrefying fish and the tyrotoxi- cons of decomposing milk and milk products.

Lat. In the civil law. Childhood; the age from seven to fourteen. 4 Bl. Comm. 22.

Fr. By or for. Used both as a separable particle, and iu the composition of such words as “purparty,” “purlieu.”

To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party. To pursue a warrant or authority, in the old books, is to execute it or carry it out. Co. Litt. 52a.

In old Scotch law. Petty theft. 2 Pitc. Crim. Tr. 43.

A succession of acts of a similar kind or in a like employment

In Roman law. Conquered towns, governed by an officer called a “prefect” who was chosen in some instances by the people, in others by the praetors. Butl. Ilor. Jur. 29.

whereof. 1 Ld. Raym. 412. PRiETOR. Lat In Roman law. A municipal otlicer of the city of Rome, being the chief judicial magistrate, and possessing an extensive equitable jurisdiction.

An adjudged case or decision of a court of justice, considered as furnishing an example or authority for an identical or similar case afterwards arising or a similar question of law. A

In logic. That which is said concerning the subject in a logical prop- osition ; as, “The law is the perfection of common sense.” “Perfection of common sense,” being affirmed concerning the

A principal minister of state; the prime minister.

The present instrument. The phrase “these presents” is used in any legal document to designate the instrument’ in which the phrase itself occurs.