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  • PRO MAJORI CAUTELA
    For greater caution; by way of additional security. Usually applied to some act done, or some clause inserted in an instrument which may not be really necessary, but which will serve to put the matter beyond any question.
  • PRO NON 8CRIPTO
    As not written; as though It had not been written; as never written. Ambl. 139.
  • PRO OPERE ET LABORE
    For work and labor. 1 Comyns, 18.
  • PRO PARTIBUS LIBERANDIS
    An ancient writ for partition of lands between co-heirs. Reg. Orig. 31&
  • PRO POSSE SUO
    To the extent of his power or ability. Bract, fol. 109.
  • PRO POSSESSORE
    As a possessor1; by title of a possessor. Dig. 41, 5. See Id. 5, 3, 13. Pro possessore babetnr qui dolo in-Jmriave desiit possidere. He is esteemed a possessor whose possession has been disturbed by fraud or injury. Off. Exec. 106.
  • PRO QUERENTE
    For the plaintiff.
  • PRO RATA
    Proportionately; according to a certain rate, percentage, or proportion. Thus, the creditors (of the same class) of an insolvent estate are to be paid pro rata; that is, each is to receive a dividend bearing the same ratio to the whole amount of his claim that the aggregate of assets More...
  • PRO RE NATA
    For the affair immediately in hand; adapted to meet the particular occasion. Thus, a course of judicial action adopted under pressure of the exigencies of the affair in hand, rather than in conformity to established precedents, is said to be taken pro re nata.
  • PRO SALUTE ANIME
    For the good of his soul. All prosecutions in the ecclesiastical courts are pro salute animw; hence it BL.L&W DICT.<2U ED.)-60 will not be a temporal damage founding an action for slander that the words spoken put any one in danger of such a suit 3 Steph. Comm. (7th. Ed.) More...
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