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  • 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.
  • PROFECTITIUS
    Lat In the civil law. That which descends to us from our ascendants. Dig. 23, 3, 5.
  • PROFER
    In old English law. An offer or proffer; an offer or endeavor to proceed in an action, by any man concerned to do so. Cowell. A return made by a sheriff of his accounts Into the exchequer; a payment made on such return. Id.
  • PROFERT IN CURIA
    L. Lat. He produces in court. In old practice, these words were inserted in a declaration, as an allegation that the plaintiff was ready to produce, or did actually produce, in court, the deed or other written instrument on which his suit was founded, in order that the court might More...
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