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  • PROBATION
    The act of proving; evidence; proof. Also trial; test; the time of novitiate. Used in the latter sense in the monastic orders. In modern criminal administration, allowing a person convicted of some minor offense (particularly Juvenile offenders) to go at large, under a susi>ension of sentence, during good behavior, and More...
  • PROBATIONER
    One who is upon trial. A convicted offender who is allowed to go at large, under suspension of sentence, during good behavior. Probationes debent esse evidentes, sell, perspienss et faeiles intelligi. Co. Litt 283. Proofs ought to be evident, to-wlt perspicuous and easily understood. Probatls extremis, prasnmnntnr media. The extremes More...
  • PROBATIVE
    In the law ot evidence. Having the effect of proof; tending to prove, or actually proving. -Probative fact. In the law of evidence. A fact which actually has the effect of proving a fact sought; an evidentiary fact. 1 Benth. Ev. 18.
  • PROBATOR
    In old English law. Strictly, an accomplice in felony who to save himself confessed the fact, and charged or accused any other as principal or accessory, against whom he was bound to make good his charge. It also signified an approver, or one who undertakes to prove a crime charged More...
  • PROBATORY TERM
    This name is given, in the practice of the English admiralty courts, to the space of time allowed for the taking of testimony in an action, after issue formed.
  • PROBATUM EST
    Lat It is tried or proved.
  • PROBUS ET LEGALIS HOMO
    Lat A good and lawful man. A phrase particularly applied to a juror or witness who was free from all exception. 3 Bl. Comm. 102.
  • PROCEDENDO
    In practice. A writ by which a cause which has been removed from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari or otherwise is sent down again to the same court, to be. proceeded in there, where it appears to the superior court that it was removed on insufficient grounds. More...
  • PROCEDURE
    This word is commonly opposed to the sum of legal principles constituting the substance of the law, and denotes the body of rules, whether of practice or of pleading, whereby rights are effectuated through the successful application of the proper remedies. It is also generally distinguished from the law of More...
  • PROCEED
    A stipulation not to proceed against a party Is an agreement not to sue. To sue a man is to proceed against him. Planters' Bank v. Houser, 57 Ga. 140; Iliff v. Weymouth, 40 Ohio St 101.
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