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  • PRO BONO ET MALO
    For good and ill; for advantage and detriment
  • PRO BONO PUBLICO
    For the public good; for the welfare of the whole.
  • PRO OONFESSO
    For confessed; as confessed. A term applied to a bill in equity, and the decree founded upon it, where no answer is made to it by the defendant 1 Barb. Ch. Pr. 96.
  • PRO CONSILIO
    For counsel given. An annuity pro consilio amounts to a condition, but in a feoffment or lease for life, etc., it is the consideration, and does not amount to a condition; for the state of the land by the feoffment is executed, and the grant of the annuity is executory. More...
  • PRO CORPORE REGNI
    In behalf of the body of the realm. Hale, Com. Law, 32.
  • PRO DEFECTU EMPTORUM
    For want(failure) of purchasers.
  • PRO DEFECTU EXITUS
    For, or Is case of, default of issue. 2 Salk. 620.
  • PRO DEFECTU HAEREDIS
    For want of an heir.
  • PRO DEFECTU JUSTITIAE
    For defect or want of justice. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 62, "2.
  • PRO DEFENDENTE
    For the defendant. Commonly abbreviated "pro de."
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