Category: P

In the civil law. Lands; estates ; tenements; properties. See PiwiDi- UM.

Lat. In the civil law. That mode of acquisition whereby one becomes proprietor of a thing on the ground that he has for a long time possessed it as his own; prescription.

The kind and degree of evidence prescribed in advance (as. by statute) as requisite for the proof of certain facts or the establishment of certain instruments. It is opposed to casual evidence,

In French law. A portion of an estate or inheritance which falls to one of the co-heirs over and above his equal share with the rest, and which is to be taken

the same kind or class. See State v. Cheraw & G. R. Co., 16 S. C. 528.

That part of the church where divine offices are performed; formerly applied to tile choir or chancel, because it was the place appropriated to the bishop, priest, and other clergy, while the

A payment which binds those who receive It to be ready at all times appointed, being meant especially of soldiers. Cowell.

In the procedure of parliamentary bodies, moving the “previous question” is a method of avoiding a direct vote on the main subject of discus- sion. It is described in May, Pari. Prac.

In English law. First fruits; the first year’s whole profits of a spiritual preferment. 1 Bl. Comm. 284.

To the person first applying. In probate practice, where there are several persons equally entitled to a grant of administration, (e. y., next of kin of the same degree,) the rule of

Possessing or enjoying a privilege; exempt from burdens; entitled to priority or precedence.

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As not written; as though it had not been written; as never written. Ambl. 139.

Likelihood; appearance of truth; verisimilitude. The likelihood of a proposition or hypothesis being true, from its conformity to reason or experience, or from superior evidence or arguments adduced in its favor. People

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.

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

A person whose occupation it 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.

Fr. In international law. The draft of a proposed treaty or convention. Prolem ante matrimonium natam, ita ut post legitimam, lex civilis succedere facit in baereditate parentum; sed prolem, quam matrimonium non

To publish; to announce officially; to make public as important or obligatory. See Wooden v. Western New York & P. R. Co. (Super. Ct.) 18 N. Y. Supp. 769.

In Scotch law. To state. To propone a defense is to state or move it 1 Karnes, Eq. pref. In ecclesiastical and probate law. To bring forward for adjudication; to exhibit as