Category: P

Lat. The former; earlier; preceding ; preferable or preferred.

Fr. Pregnant privately. The term is applied to a woman who is pregnant, but not yet quick with child.

For, or In case of, default of issue. 2 Salk. 020.

For breach or faith. 3 Bl. Comm. 52.

Lat. In the civil law. A great-great-aunt.

In practice. A writ by which a cause which has been removed from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari or otherwise is sent down again to the same court, to

A procurator, proxy, or attorney. More particularly, an officer of the admiralty and ecclesiastical courts whose duties and business correspond exactly to those of an attorney at law or solicitor in chancery.

A traitor.

That state of a business which is neither the commencement nor the end. Some act doue after the matter has commenced, and before it is completed. Plowd. 343. Proliibetur ne quis faciat

In the law relating to corporations, those persons are called the “promoters” of a company who first associate themselves together for the purpose of organizing the company, issuing its prospectus, procuring subscriptions

Kindred; parentage.

The French law term corresponding to our “property,” or the right of enjoying and of disposing of things in the most absolute manner, subject only to the laws. Brown.

Looking forward; contemplating the future. A law is said to be prospective (as opposed to retrospective) when it is applicable only to cases which shall arise after its enactment.

Lat. In the civil law. He who, not being the tutor of a minor, has administered his property or affairs as if he had been, whether he thought himself legally invested with

Lat In the civil law. A broker; one who negotiated or arranged the terms of a contract between two parties, as between buyer and seller; one who negotiated a marriage; a match-maker.

One versed in, or writing upon, public law, the science and principles of government, or international law.

Lat. A point of time; an Indivisible period of time; the shortest space of time; an instant. Calvin.

A share; a part in a division ; that part of an estate, formerly held in common, which is by partition allotted to any one of the parties. The word was an-

In practice. To place in due form before a court; to place among the records of a court

An instrument authorizing a person to act as the agent or attorney of the person granting it. See LETTER OF ATTORNEY