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  • PROSPECTIVE
    Looking forward; contemplating the future. A law is said to be prospective .(as opposed to retrospective) when it is applicable only to cases which shall arise after its enactment. -Prospective damages. See DAMAGES.
  • PROSPECTUS
    A document published by a company or corporation, or by persons acting as its agents or assignees, setting forth the nature and objects of an issue of shares, debentures, or other securities created by the company or corporation, and Inviting the public to subscribe to the issue. A prospectus is More...
  • PROSTITUTE
    A woman who indiscriminately consorts with men for hire. Carpenter v. People, 8 Barb. (N. Y.) 611; State v. Stoyell, 54 Me. 24, 89 Am. Dec. 716.
  • PROSTITUTION
    Common lewdness; whoredom; the act or practice of a woman who permits any man who will pay her price to have sexual intercourse with her. See Com. v. Cook, 12 Mete. (Mass.) 97. protectio trahit suhjeotionem, et sub-jectio protectionem. Protection draws with It subjection, and subjection protection. 7 Coke, 5e. More...
  • PROTECTION
    In English law. A writ by which the king might, by a special prerogative, privilege a defendant from all personal and many real suits for one year at a time, and no longer, In respect of his being engaged in his service out of the realm. 3 Bl. Comm. 289. More...
  • PROTECTION OF INVENTIONS ACT
    The statute 33 A 34 Vict c. 27. By this act It is provided that the exhibition of new inventions shall not prejudice patent rights, and that the exhibition of designs shall not prejudice the right to registration of such designs.
  • PROTECTION ORDER
    In English practice. An order for the protection of the wife's property, when the husband has willfully deserted her, Issuable by the divorce court under statutes on that subject.
  • PROTECTIONIBUS DE
    The English statute 33 Edw. I. St 1, allowing a challenge to be entered against a protection, etc.
  • PROTECTIVE TARIFF
    A law imposing duties on imports, with the purpose and the effect of discouraging the use of products of foreign origin, and consequently of stimulating the home production of the same or equivalent articles. R. E. Thompson, in Enc. Brit.
  • PROTECTOR OF SETTLEMENT
    In English law. By the statute 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 74, | 32, power is given to any settlor to appoint any person or persons, not exceeding three, the "protector of the settlement."* The object of such api>ointment is to prevent the tenant in tail from barring any More...
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