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  • PRIEST
    A minister of a church. A person in the second order of the ministry, aa distinguished from bishops and deacons.
  • PRIMA FACIE
    Lat At first sight; on the flrst appearance; on the face of it; so far as can be judged from the first disclosure; presumably. A litigating party is said to have a prima fade case when the evidence in his favor is sufficiently strong for his opponent to be called More...
  • PRIMA TONSURA
    The flrst mowing; a grant of a right to have the flrst crop of grass. 1 Chit Pr. 181.
  • PRIMA IMPRESSIONIS
    A case prima impreestonis (of the flrst Impression) Is a case of a new kind, to which no established principle of law or precedent directly applies, and which must be decided entirely by reason as distinguished from authority.
  • PRIMAE PRECES
    Lat In the civil law. An imperial prerogative by which the emperor exercised the right of naming to the flrst prebend that became vacant after his accession, in every church of the empire. 1 Bl. Comm. 381.
  • PRIMAGE
    In mercantile law. A small allowance or compensation payable to the master and mariners of a ship or vessel; to the former for the use of his cables and ropes to discharge the goods of the merchant; to the latter for lading and unlading in any port or haven. Abb. More...
  • PRIMARIA ECCLESIA
    The mother church. 1 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed) 118.
  • PRIMARY
    First; principal; chief; leading. -Primary allegation. The opening pleading in a suit in the ecclesiastical court. It is also called a "primary plea."-Primary disposal of the soiL In acts of congress admitting territories as states, and providing that no laws shall be passed interfering with the primary disposal of the More...
  • PRIMATE
    A chief ecclesiastic; part of the style and title of an archbishop. Thus, the archbishop of Canterbury is styled "Primate of all England;" the archbishop of York la "Primate of England." Wharton.
  • PRIME
    n French law. The price of the risk assumed by an insurer; premium of insurance. Emerig. Tralte des Assur. c 3, ? 1, nn, 1, 2.
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