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  • PRODITORIE
    Treasonably. This is a technical word formerly used in indictments for treason, when they were written in Latin. Tomlins.
  • PRODUCE
    To bring forward; to show or exhibit; to bring into view or notice; as, to produce books or writings at a trial in obedience to a subpoena duces tecum.
  • PRODUCE BROKER
    A person whose occupation it is to buy or sell agricultural or farm products. 14 U. S. St at Large, 117; U. S. v. Simons, 1 Abb. (U. S.) 470, Fed. Cas. No. 16,291.
  • PRODUCENT
    The party calling a witness under the old system of the English ecclesiastical courts.
  • PRODUCTIO SECTAE
    In old English law. Production of suit; the production by a plaintiff of his secta or witnesses to prove the allegations of his count See 3 BL Comm. 295.
  • PRODUCTION
    In political economy. The creation of objects which constitute wealth. The requisites of production are latjory capital, and the materials and motive forces afforded by nature. Of these, labor and the raw material of the globe are primary and indispensable. Natural motive powers; may be called in to the assistance More...
  • PRODUCTION OF SUIT
    In pleading. The formula, "and therefore he brings his suit," etc., with which declarations always conclude. Steph. PL 428, 429.
  • PROFANE
    That which has not been consecrated. By a profane place is understood one which is neither sacred nor* sanctified nor religious. Dig. 11, 7, 2, 4.
  • PROFANELY
    In a profane manner. A technical word In indictments for the statutory offense of profanity. See Updegraph v. Com., 11 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 394.
  • PROFANITY
    Irreverence towards sacred things; particularly, an irreverent or blasphemous use of the name of God; punishable by statute in some jurisdictions.
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