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PROTOCOL
The first draft or rough minutes of an instrument or transaction; the original copy of a dispatch, treaty, or other documeut Brande. A document serving as the preliminary to, or opening of, any diplomatic transaction. In old Scotch practice. A book, marked by the clerk-register, and delivered to a notary More...

The first draft or rough minutes of an instrument or transaction; the original copy of a dispatch, treaty, or other documeut Brande. A document serving as the preliminary to, or opening of, any diplomatic transaction. In old Scotch practice. A book, marked by the clerk-register, and delivered to a notary on his admission, in which he was directed to insert all the instruments he had occasion to execute; to be preserved as a record. Bell. In France, the minutes of notarial acts were formerely transcribed on registers, which were called "protocols." Toulller, Droit Civil Fr. liv. 3, t. 3, c. 6, s. 1, no. 413. Less...
PROTOCOLO
In Spanish law. The original draft or writing of an instrument which remains in tbe possession of the es-cribano, or notary. White, New Recop. lib. 8, tit 7, c. 5, ? 2. The term "protocolo" when applied to a single paper, means the first draft of an instrument duly executed More...

In Spanish law. The original draft or writing of an instrument which remains in tbe possession of the es-cribano, or notary. White, New Recop. lib. 8, tit 7, c. 5, ? 2. The term "protocolo" when applied to a single paper, means the first draft of an instrument duly executed before a notary.- the matrix,-because It is the source from which must be taken copies to be delivered to interested parties as their evidence of right; and it also means a bound book in which the notary places and keeps in their order Instruments executed before him, from which copies are taken for the use of parties interested. Downing v. Diaz, 80 Tex. 436, 16 S. W. 53. Less...
PROTUTOR
Lat In the civil law. He who, not being the tutor of a minor, has administered his property or affairs as if he had been, whether he thought himself legally invested with the authority of a tutor or not. Mackeld. Rom. Law, $ 630.

Lat In the civil law. He who, not being the tutor of a minor, has administered his property or affairs as if he had been, whether he thought himself legally invested with the authority of a tutor or not. Mackeld. Rom. Law, $ 630. Less...
PROTUT PATET PER RECORDUM
As appears by the record. In the Latin phraseology of pleading, this was the proper formula for making reference to a record.

As appears by the record. In the Latin phraseology of pleading, this was the proper formula for making reference to a record. Less...
PROVABLE
L. Fr. Provable; justifiable ; manifest. Kelham.

L. Fr. Provable; justifiable ; manifest. Kelham. Less...
PROVE
To establish a fact or hypothesis as true by satisfactory and sufficient evidence. To present a claim or demand against a bankrupt or Insolvent estate, and establish by evidence or affidavit that the same Is cor-oreet and due, for the purpose of receiving a dividend on it. Tibbetts v. Trafton, More...

To establish a fact or hypothesis as true by satisfactory and sufficient evidence. To present a claim or demand against a bankrupt or Insolvent estate, and establish by evidence or affidavit that the same Is cor-oreet and due, for the purpose of receiving a dividend on it. Tibbetts v. Trafton, 80 Me. 264, 14 Atl. 71; In re California Pac. R. Co., 4 Fed. Cas. 1060; In re Bigelow, 3 Fed. Cas. 343. To establish the genuineness and due ex ecutlon of a paper, propounded to the proper court or officer, as the last will and testament of a deceased person. See PROBATE. Less...
PROVER
In old English law. A person who, on being indicted of treason or fel ony, and arraigned for the same, confessed the fact before plea pleaded, and appealed or accused others, his accomplices, in the same crime, in order to obtain his pardon. 4 Bl. Comm. 329, 330.

In old English law. A person who, on being indicted of treason or fel ony, and arraigned for the same, confessed the fact before plea pleaded, and appealed or accused others, his accomplices, in the same crime, in order to obtain his pardon. 4 Bl. Comm. 329, 330. Less...
PROVIDED
The word used In introducing a proviso (which see.) Ordinarily it slg nifies or expresses a condition; but this is not iuvariable, for, according to the context, it may import a covenant, or a limitation or qualification, or a restraint, modification, or exception to something which precedes. See Stanley v. More...

The word used In introducing a proviso (which see.) Ordinarily it slg nifies or expresses a condition; but this is not iuvariable, for, according to the context, it may import a covenant, or a limitation or qualification, or a restraint, modification, or exception to something which precedes. See Stanley v. Colt, 5 Wall. 166, 18 L. Ed. 502, Stoel v. Flanders, 68 Wis. 256, 32 N. W. 114; Robertson v. Caw, 3 Barb. (N. Y.) 418; Paschall v. Passmore, 15 Pa. 308; Carroll v. State, 58 Ala. 396; Colt v. Hubbard, 33 Conn. 281; Woodruff v. Woodruff, 44 N. J. Eq. 349, 16 Atl. 4, 1 L. R. A. 380. Less...
PROVINCE
Sometimes this signifies the district into which a country has been divld ed; as, the province of Canterbury, in England ; the province of Languedoc, in France. Sometimes it means a dependency or colony, as, the province of New Brunswick. It is sometimes used figuratively to signify power or authority; More...

Sometimes this signifies the district into which a country has been divld ed; as, the province of Canterbury, in England ; the province of Languedoc, in France. Sometimes it means a dependency or colony, as, the province of New Brunswick. It is sometimes used figuratively to signify power or authority; as, it is the province of the court to judge of the law; that of the jury to decide on the facts. 1 Bl. Comm. Ill; Tomlins. Less...
PROVINCIAL CONSTITUTIONS
The decrees of provincial synods held under divers archbishops of Canterbury from Stephen Langton, in the reign of Henry III., to Henry Chichele, in the reign of Henry V., and adopted also by the province of York in the reign of Henry VI. Wharton.

The decrees of provincial synods held under divers archbishops of Canterbury from Stephen Langton, in the reign of Henry III., to Henry Chichele, in the reign of Henry V., and adopted also by the province of York in the reign of Henry VI. Wharton. Less...

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