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  • 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 '.
  • PROJET
    Fr. In international law. The draft of a proposed treaty or convention. Prolem ante matrimoninm n a tain, ita nt post legitimam, lex civilis sneeedexe faoit in nssreditate parentnm; sed prolem, qnam matrimoninm non parit, sne-eedere non sinit lex Anglornm. Fortesc. c. 39. The civil law permits the offspring born More...
  • PROLES
    Lat. Offspring; progeny ; the issue of a lawful marriage. Proles seqnitnr sortem patemam. The offspring follows the condition of the father. Lynch v. Clarke, 1 Sandf. Ch. (N. Y.) 583, 660.
  • PROLETARIATE
    The class of prole-tarii; the lowest stratum of the people of a country, consisting mainly of the waste of other classes, or of those fractions of the population who, by their isolation and their poverty, have no place in the established order of society.
  • PROLETARITUS
    Lat. In Roman law. A person of poor or mean condition; those among the common people whose fortunes were below a certain valuation; those who were so poor that they could not serve the state with money, but only with their children, (proles.) Calvin.; Vicat.
  • PROLICIDE
    In medical jurisprudence. A word used to designate the destruction of the human offspring. Jurists divide the subject into feticide, or the destruction of the fetus in utero, and infanticide, or the destruction of the new-born infant. Ry. Med. Jur. 280.
  • PROLIXITY
    The unnecessary and superfluous statement of facts in pleading or in evidence. This will be rejected as impertinent. 7 Price, 278, note.
  • PROLOCUTOR
    In ecclesiastical law. The president or chairman of a convocation.
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