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Prolytae






Prolytae

Romamn civil law. The term used to denominate students of law during the fifth and last year of their studies. They were left during this year, very much to their own direction, and took the name (prolytoi) Prolytae omnino soluti.

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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.

Term
1) Construction. Word; expression speech. 2) Contracts. This word is used in the civil, law to denote the space of time granted to the debtor for discharging his obligation; there are express terms resulting from the positive stipulations of the agreement; as, where one undertakes to pay a certain sum on a certain day and also terms which tacitly result from the nature of the things which are the object of the engagement, or from the place where the act is agreed to be done. For instance, if a builder engage to construct a house for me, I must allow a reasonable time for fulfilling his engagement. 3) Estates. The limitation of an estate, as a term for years, for life, and the like. The word term does not merely signify the time specified in the lease, but the estate also and interest that passes by that lease; and therefore the term may expire during the continuance of the time, as by surrender, forfeiture and the like. 4) Practice. The space of time during which a court holds a session; sometimes the term is a monthly, at others it is a quarterly period, according to the constitution of the court.

Were
The name of a fine among the Saxons imposed upon a murderer

Direction
1) The order and government of an institution; the persons who compose the board of directors are jointly called the direction. 2) Practice. That part of a bill in chancery which contains the address of the bill to the court.

Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.

Prolytae
Romamn civil law. The term used to denominate students of law during the fifth and last year of their studies. They were left during this year, very much to their own direction, and took the name (prolytoi) Prolytae omnino soluti.



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Proles
Progeny, such issue as proceeds from a lawful marriage; and, in its enlarged sense, it signifies any children.

Proletarius
Civil law. One who has no property to be taxed; and paid a tax only on account of his cliildren, proles; a person of mean or common extraction. The word has become Frenchified, proletaire signifying one of the common people.

Prolicide
med. jurisp. Medical jurists have employed this word to designate the destruction of the human divided the subject into foeticide, . or the destruction of the foetus in utero; and infanticide, . or the destruction of the new-born infant.

Prolixity
The unnecessary and superfluous statement of facts in pleading or in evidence. This will be rejected as impertinent.

Prolocutor
In the ecclesiastical law, signifies a president or chairman of a convocation.

Prolongation
Time added to the duration of something.



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Proletarius
Civil law. One who has no property to be taxed; and paid a tax only on account of his cliildren, proles; a person of mean or common extraction. The word has become Frenchified, proletaire signifying one of the common people.

Prolicide
med. jurisp. Medical jurists have employed this word to designate the destruction of the human divided the subject into foeticide, . or the destruction of the foetus in utero; and infanticide, . or the destruction of the new-born infant.

Prolixity
The unnecessary and superfluous statement of facts in pleading or in evidence. This will be rejected as impertinent.

Prolocutor
In the ecclesiastical law, signifies a president or chairman of a convocation.

Prolongation
Time added to the duration of something.

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Promatertera
Great maternal aunt; the sister of one's grandmother.

Promise
Contracts. An engagement by which the promisor contracts towards another to perform or do something to the advantage of the latter.

Promise of marriage
A contract mutually entered into by a man and a woman capable of contracting matrimony, that they will marry each other.

Promisee
A person to whom a promise has been made.

Promises
Evidence. When a defendant has been arrested, he is frequently in duced to make confessions in consequence of promises made to him, that if he will tell the truth, he will be either discharged or favored: in such a case evidence of the confession cannot be received, because being obtained by the flattery of hope, it comes in so questionable a shape, when it is to be considered evidence of guilt, that no credit ought to be given to it. This is the principle, but what amounts to a promise is not so easily defined.

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