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  • PROMULGARE
    Lat In Roman law. To make public; to make publicly known; to promulgate. To publish or make known a law, after its enactment
  • PROMULGATE
    To publish; to announce officially; to make public as important or obligatory. See Wooden v. Western New York A P. R. CO. (Super. Ct) 18 N. Y. Supp. 769.
  • PROMULGATION
    The order given to cause a law to be executed, and to make it public; it differs from publication. 1 Bl. Comm. 45.
  • PROMUTUUM
    Lat. In the civil law. A quasi contract by which he who receives a certain sum of money, or a certain quantity of fungible things, which have been paid to him through mistake, contracts towards the payer the obligation of returning him as much. Poth. de TUsure, pt 3, a. More...
  • PRONEPOS
    Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandson. Inst. 3, 6, 1; Bract fol. 67.
  • PRONEPTIS
    Lat. In the civil law. A great-granddaughter. Inst 3, 6 1; Bract foL 67.
  • PRONOTARY
    First notary. See PROTHONOTARY
  • PRONOUNCE
    To utter formally, officially, and solemnly; to declare aloud and In a fornial manner. In this sense a court is said to "pronounce" judgment or a sentence. See Ex parte Crawford, 36 Tex. Cr. R. 180, 36 8. W. 92.
  • PRONUNCIATION
    L. Fr. A sentence or decree. Kelham.
  • PRONURUS
    Lat. In tbe civil law. The wife of a grandson or great-grandson. Dig. 38, 10, 4, 6.
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