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  • 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...
  • PROPRIETAS
    Lat. In the civil and old English law. Property; that which is one's own; ownership. Proprietas plena, full property, including not only the title, but the usufruct, or exclusive right to* the use. Calvin. Proprietas nuda, naked or mere property or ownership; the mere title, separate from the usufruct Proprietas More...
  • PROPRIETATE PROBANDA, DE.
    A writ addressed to a sheriff to try by an Inquest In whom certain property, previous to distress, subsisted. Finch, Law, 316. Proprietates erbornm servanda) snnt. The proprieties of words [proper meanings of words] are to be preserved or adhered to. Jenk. Cent. p. 136, case 78.
  • PROPRIETE
    The French law term corresponding to our "property," or the right of enjoying and of disposing of things in the most absolute manner, subject only to the laws. Brown.
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