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PROLONGATION

Time added to the duration of something; an extension of the time limited for tlie performance of an agreement. A prolongation of time accorded to the principal debtor will discharge the surety.

PRONURUS

Lat In the civil law. The wife of a grandson or great-grandson. Dig. 38, 10, 4, 6.

PROPRES

In French law. The term “propres” or “Mens propres” (as distinguished from “acquets”) denotes all property inherited by a person, whether by devise or ah intcstato. from his direct or collateral relatives,

PROSCRIBED

In the civil law. Among the Romans, a man was said to be “proscribed” when a reward was offered for his head; but the term was more usually applied to those who

PROTEST

1. A formal declaration made by a person interested or concerned in some act about to be done, or already performed, and in relation thereto, whereby he expresses his dissent or disapproval,

PROVISO

A condition or provision which is inserted in a deed, lease, mortgage, or contract, and on the performance or nonperformance of which the validity of the deed, etc., frequently depends; it usually

PUBLICATION

necessarily a place devoted solely to the uses of the public, but a place which is in point of fact public rather than private, a place visited by many persons and usually

PUIS

In law French. Afterwards; since.

PURCHASER

One who acquires real property in any other mode than by descent. One who acquires either real or personal property by buying it for a price in money; a buyer; vendee. In

PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

As used in constitutional law, this right includes personal freedom, freedom of contract, exemption from oppression or invidious discrimination, the right to follow one’s individual preference in the choice of an occupation

PRACTITIONER

He who is engaged in the exercise or employment of any art or profession.

PRJEFECTUS VIGILUM

Lat. In Roman law. The chief officer of the night watch. His jurisdiction extended to certain offenses affecting the public peace, and even to larcenies; but be could inflict only slight punishments.

PRAGMATIC SANCTION

In French law. An expression used to designate those ordinances which concern the most important objects of the civil or ecclesiastical ad- ministration. Merl. Repert In the civil law. The answer given

PRECEPARTIUM

The continuance of a suit by consent of both parties. Cowell.

PRE-EMPTION

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

PREROGATIVE

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

PRESIDE

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

PRETERITION

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.

PRIM^: PRECES

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

PRINCES OF THE ROYAL BLOOD

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.

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