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  • PROROGATION
    Prolonging or putting off to another day. In English law, a prorogation is the continuance of the parliament from one session to another, as an adjournment is a continuation of the session from day to day. Wharton. In the civil law. The giving time to do a thing beyond the More...
  • PROROGUE
    To direct suspension ot proceedings of parliament; to terminate a session.
  • PROSCRIBED
    In the civil law. Among the Romans, a man was said to be "proscribed" when a reward was offered for his head; but the term was more usually applied to those who were sentenced to some punishment which carried with it the consequences of civil death. Cod. 9, 49.
  • PROSECUTE
    To follow up; to carry on an action or other judicial proceeding; to proceed against a person criminally.
  • PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
    The name of the public officer (in several states) who is appointed in each judicial district circuit, or county, to conduct criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state or people. See People v. May, 3 Mich. 605; Holder v. State, 58 Ark. 473, 25 8. W. 279.
  • PROSECUTING WITNESS
    This name is given to the private person upon whose complaint or Information a criminal accusation is founded and whose testimony ia mainly relied on to secure a conviction at the trial; in a more particular sense, the person who was chiefly Injured, in person or property, by the act More...
  • PROSECUTION
    In criminal law. A criminal action; a proceeding instituted and carried on by due course of law, before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining the guilt or innocence of a person charged with crime. See U. S. v. Reis-inger, 128 U. S. 398, 9 Sup. Ct 99, 32 More...
  • PROSECUTOR
    In practice. He who prosecutes another for a crime in the name of the government. -Private prosecutor. One who sets in motion the machinery of criminal justice against a person whom he suspects or believes to be guilty of a crime, by laying an accusation before the proper authorities, and More...
  • PROSECUTRIX
    In criminal law. A female prosecutor.
  • PROSEQUI
    Lat To follow up or pur sue; to sue or prosecute. See NOLLE PROSEQUI.
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