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Prodigal
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ProdigalCivil law, persons. Prodigals were persons who, though of full age, were incapable of managing their affairs, and of the obligations which attended them, in consequence of their bad conduct, and for whom a curator was therefore appointed.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Were
The name of a fine among the Saxons imposed upon a murderer
Conduct
Law of nations. This term is used in the phrase safe conduct, to signify the security given, by authority of the government, under the great seal, to a stranger, for his quietly coming into and passing out of the territories over which it has jurisdiction.
Curator
Persons, contracts. One who has been legally appointed to take care of the interests of one who, on account of his youth, or defect of his understanding, or for some other cause, is unable to attend to them himself.
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Proditorie
Treasonably. This is a technical word formerly used in indictments for treason, when they were written in Latin
Producent
He who produces a witness to be examined. The term is used in the ecclesiastical courts.
Product liability
Legal responsibility of manufacturers and sellers to buyers, users, and bystanders for damages or injuries suffered because of defects in goods.
Product liability lawsuit
A lawsuit related to liability on a given product.
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Procurations
Eccles. law. Certain sums of money which parish priests pay yearly to the bishops or archdeacons ratione visitationis.
Procurator
1) Civil law. A proctor; a person who acts for another by virtue of a procuration. Procurator est, qui aliena negotia mandata Domini administrat.
Procurator in rem suam
Scotch law. This imports that one is acting as attorney as to his own property. When an assignment of a thing is made, as a debt, and a procuration or power of attorney is given to the assignee to receive the same, he is in such case procurator in rein suam.
Procuratorium
The proxy or instrument by which a proctor is constituted and appointed.
Pro-curators, pro-tutors.
Persons who act as curators or tutors, without being lawfully authorized. They are, in general, liable to all the duties of curators or tutors, and are entitled to none of the advantages which legal curators or tutors can claim.
Prodigal
Proditorie
Treasonably. This is a technical word formerly used in indictments for treason, when they were written in Latin
Producent
He who produces a witness to be examined. The term is used in the ecclesiastical courts.
Product liability
Legal responsibility of manufacturers and sellers to buyers, users, and bystanders for damages or injuries suffered because of defects in goods.
Proenomen
The first or Christian name of a person; Benjamin is the proenomen of Benjamin Franklin.
Profane
That which has not been consecrated. By a profane place is understood one which is neither sacred, nor sanctified, nor religious.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Were
The name of a fine among the Saxons imposed upon a murderer
Conduct
Law of nations. This term is used in the phrase safe conduct, to signify the security given, by authority of the government, under the great seal, to a stranger, for his quietly coming into and passing out of the territories over which it has jurisdiction.
Curator
Persons, contracts. One who has been legally appointed to take care of the interests of one who, on account of his youth, or defect of his understanding, or for some other cause, is unable to attend to them himself.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Proditorie
Treasonably. This is a technical word formerly used in indictments for treason, when they were written in Latin
Producent
He who produces a witness to be examined. The term is used in the ecclesiastical courts.
Product liability
Legal responsibility of manufacturers and sellers to buyers, users, and bystanders for damages or injuries suffered because of defects in goods.
Product liability lawsuit
A lawsuit related to liability on a given product.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Procurations
Eccles. law. Certain sums of money which parish priests pay yearly to the bishops or archdeacons ratione visitationis.
Procurator
1) Civil law. A proctor; a person who acts for another by virtue of a procuration. Procurator est, qui aliena negotia mandata Domini administrat.
Procurator in rem suam
Scotch law. This imports that one is acting as attorney as to his own property. When an assignment of a thing is made, as a debt, and a procuration or power of attorney is given to the assignee to receive the same, he is in such case procurator in rein suam.
Procuratorium
The proxy or instrument by which a proctor is constituted and appointed.
Pro-curators, pro-tutors.
Persons who act as curators or tutors, without being lawfully authorized. They are, in general, liable to all the duties of curators or tutors, and are entitled to none of the advantages which legal curators or tutors can claim.
Prodigal
Proditorie
Treasonably. This is a technical word formerly used in indictments for treason, when they were written in Latin
Producent
He who produces a witness to be examined. The term is used in the ecclesiastical courts.
Product liability
Legal responsibility of manufacturers and sellers to buyers, users, and bystanders for damages or injuries suffered because of defects in goods.
Proenomen
The first or Christian name of a person; Benjamin is the proenomen of Benjamin Franklin.
Profane
That which has not been consecrated. By a profane place is understood one which is neither sacred, nor sanctified, nor religious.
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