Category: P

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

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

Lat. By its own force; by its intrinsic meaning.

Common lewdness; whoredom; the act or practice of a woman who permits any man who will pay her price to have sexual intercourse with her. See Com. v. Cook, 12 Mete. (Mass.)

To establish a fact or hypothesis as true by satisfactory and sufficient evidence. To present a claim or demand against a bankrupt or insolvent estate, and establish by evidence or affidavit that

A person who is substituted or deputed by another to represent him and act for him, particularly in some meeting or public body. Also the instrument containing the appointment of such person.

Chastity; purity; continence.

An interpreter of the Hindu law ; a learned Brahmin.

A purpresture may be defined as an inclosure by a private party of a part of that which belongs to and ought to be open and free to the enjoyment of the

In English law. Time-bargains, or contracts for the sale of supposed stock on a future day.

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.

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.