Category: P

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.

Lat. In old English law. A throwing up of earth by the sea.

Lat. In Roman law. To make public; to make publicly known; to promulgate. To publish or make known a law, after its enactment.

In Spanish law. Certain portions of ground laid off and reserved when a town was founded in Spanish America as the unalienable property of the town, for the purpose of erecting public

In Massachusetts colonial ordinance of 1741 is nearly, if not precisely, equivalent to property. Com. v. Alger, 7 Cush. (Mass.) 53, 70. In old English law. Property. “Propriety in action; propriety in

A woman who indiscriminately consorts with men for hire. Carpenter v. People, 8 Barb. (N. Y.) 611; State v. Stoyell, 54 Me. 24, 89 Am. Dec. 716.

L. Fr. Provable; justifiable; manifest. Kelham.

Kindred between two persons. Dig. 38, 16, 8. Proximus est cui nemo antecedit,

One whose business is the manufacture, promulgation, and sale of books, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, or other literary productions.

In old English law. Pound-breach; the offense of breaking a pound. The illegal taking of cattle out of a pound by any rneaus whatsoever. Cowell.

Meaning; import; substantial meaning; substance. Tbe “purport” of an instrument means tbe substance of it as it appears on tbe face of the instrument, and is distinguished from “tenor,” which means an

A “put” In the language of the grain or stock market Is a privilege of delivering or not delivering the subject-matter of the sale; and a “call” is a privilege of calling

the latter’s estate entirely and without any subsequent right of redemption. See Capron v. Attleborough Bank, 11 Gray (Mass.) 403; Appeal of Clark, 70 Conn. 193, 39 Atl. 153.

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.