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  • PROPORTUM
    In old records. Purport; intention or meaning. Cowell.
  • PROPOSAL
    An offer; something proffered. An offer, by one person to another, of terms and conditions with reference to some work or undertaking, or for the transfer of property, the acceptance whereof will make a contract between them. Eppes v. Mississippi, G.&T.R. Co., 35 Ala. 33. In English practice. A statement More...
  • PROPOSITION
    A single logical sentence; also an offer to do a thing. See Perry v. Dwelling House Ins. Co., 67 N. H. 201. 83 Aa 731, 68 Am. St Rep. 668; Hubbard T. Woodsum, 87 Me. 88, 82 Atl. 802.
  • PROPOSITUS
    Lat The person proposed; the person from whom a descent Is traced.
  • PROPOUND
    An executor or other person Is said to propound a will or other testamentary paper when he takes proceedings for obtaining probate in solemn form. The term is also technically used, In England, to denote the allegations in the statement of claim, in an action for probate, by which the More...
  • PROPRES
    In French law. The term "propres" or "biens propres" (as distinguished from "acquets19) denotes all property inherited by a person, whether by devise or ab intestato, from his direct or collateral relatives, whether in the ascending or descending line; that is, in terms of the common law, property acquired by More...
  • PROPRIA PERSONA.
    See IN PROPRIA PERSONA.
  • PROPRIEDAD
    In Spanish law. Property. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 7, c; 5, 12.
  • PROPRIETARY (NOUN)
    n. A proprietor or owner; one who has the exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses or holds the title to a thing in his own right. The grantees of Pennsylvania and Maryland and their heirs were called the proprietaries of those provinces. Webster.
  • PROPRIETARY (ADJ)
    adj. Relating or pertaining to ownership, belonging or pertaining to a single individual owner. -Proprietary articles. Goods manufactured under some exclusive individual right to make and sell them. The term is chiefly used in the internal revenue laws of the United States. See Ferguson v. Arthur, 117 U. S. 482, More...
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