Category: P

In international law. The right of pre-emption is the right of a nation to detain the merchandise of strangers passing through her territories or seas, in order to afford to her subjects

baeher’s Estate. 168 Pa. 158, 32 Atl. 30; Cum- rnings v. Dearborn, 56 Vt. 441; State v. French, 120 ind. 220, 22 N. E. 108. The word is also used to denote

To preside over a court is to “hold” it,

In the civil law. The omission by a testator of some one of bis heirs who is legally entitled to a portion of the inheritance.

Lat. In the civil law. An imperial prerogative by which the emperor exercised the right of naming to the first prebend that became vacant after his accession, in every church of the

In English law. The younger sons and daughters of the sovereign, and other branches of the royal family who are not in the immediate line of succession. PRINCESS ROYAL. In English law.

L. Fr. Ready. In the old forms of oral pleading, this term expressed a tender or joinder of issue. Prins vitiis laboravimus, nunc legibus. 4 Inst. 70. We labored first with vices,

For and against. A phrase descriptive of the presentation of arguments or evidence on both sides of a disputed question.

For this turn; for this one particular occasion.

For a partner; the name of an action in behalf of a partner. A title of the civil law. Dig. 17. 2; Cod. 4, 37.

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