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  • 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...
  • PROFESSION
    A public declaration respecting something. Cod. 10, 41, 6. In ecclesiastieal law. The act of entering iuto a religious order. See 17 Vin. Abr. 545. Also a calling, vocation, known employment ; divinity, medicine, and law are called the "learned professions."
  • PROFICUA
    L. Lat In old English law. Profits; especially the "Issues and profits" of an estate in land. See Co. Litt. 142.
  • PROFILE
    In civil engineering, a drawing representing the elevation of the various points on the plan of a. road, or the like, above some fixed elevation. Pub. St Mass, 1882, p. 1294.
  • PROFITS
    1. The advance in the price of goods sold beyond the cost of purchase! The gain made by the sale of produce or manufactures, after deducting the value of the labor, materials, rents, and all expenses, together with the interest of the capital employed. Webster. See Providence Rubber Co. v. More...
  • PROGENER
    Lat. In the civil law. A grandson-in-law. Dig. 38, 10, 4, 6.
  • PROGRESSION
    That state of a business which Is neither the commencement nor the end. Some act done after the matter has commenced, and before it Is completed. Plowd. 343. Pronijbetnr me qnis faeiat in sno qnod noeere possit alieno. It is forbidden for any one to do or make on his More...
  • PROHIBITED DEGREES
    Those degrees of relationship by consanguinity which are so close that marriage between persons related to each other in any of such degrees is forbidden by law. See State v. Guiton, 51 La. Ann. 155, 24 South. 784. PROHIBITIO DE VASTO, DIRECTA PARTI. A judicial writ which used to be More...
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