Category: P

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

In the civil law. A farmer of the public revenue; one who held a lease of some property from the public treasury. Dig. 39, 4, 1, 1; Id. 39, 4, 12, 3

The state of a line of coast proclaimed to be under blockade in time of war, when the naval force on watch is not sufficient to repel a real attempt to enter.

Those whose operations serve the needs of the general public or conduce to the comfort and convenience of an entire community, such as railroads, gas, water, and electric light companies. The business

A blockade which is not only established in fact, but is notified, by the government directing it, to other governments; as distinguished from a simple blockade, which may be established by a

That credit which a person possesses as an individual, and which is founded on the opinion entertained of his character and business standing.

A term formerly used in English politics to describe a borough entitled to send a representative to parliament, in which a single individual, either as the principal landlord or by reason of

An artificial boundary, consisting of some monument or landmark set up by the hand of man to mark the beginning or direction of a boundary line of lands.

A natural boundary; a natural object or landmark used as a boundary of a tract of land, or as a beginning point for a boundary line.

Chapels owned by private persons, and used by themselves and tlieir families, are called ‘ ‘private,” as opposed to chapels of case, which are built for the accommodation of particular districts within

In English law. Those belonging to private persons who have purchased or erected them with a view to profit or otherwise

In English law, are chapels founded at some period later than the church itself. They were designed for the accommodation of such of the parishioners as in course of time had begun

In the civil law. An action in personam. A personal action seeks to enforce an obligation imposed on the defendant by his contract or delict; that is. it is the contention that

In this phrase the word “public” is used, not in the sense that it must be executed openly and in public, but in the sense of being so general and indefinite in

An agent acting for an individual in his private affairs: as distinguished from a public agent, who represents the government in some administrative capacity.

One which is entirely gratuitous, and which dispenses its benefits without any charge or pecuniary return whatever. See In re Keech’s Estate (Surr.) 7 N. Y. Supp. 331; In re Lenox’s Estate