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  • 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...
  • PROHIBITION
    In practice. The name of a writ Issued by a superior court, directed to the judge and parties of a suit in an inferior court, commanding them to cease from the prosecution of the same, upon a suggestion that the cause originally, or some collateral matter arising therein, does not More...
  • PROHIBITIVE IMPEDIMENTS
    Those impediments to a marriage which are only followed by a punishment, but do not render the marriage null. Bowyer, Mod. Civil Law, 44.
  • PROJECTIO
    Lat. In old English law. A throwing up of earth by the sea. .v. :J '.
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