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Promoters






Promoters

In the English law, are those who in popular or penal actions prosecute in. their own names and the king's, having part of the fines and penalties.

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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.

Penal
That which may be punished; that which inflicts a punishment.

Prosecute
To bring judicial proceedings against a person and to administer them until the conclusion of the court proceedings. Lawyers are hired by the government to administer the prosecution of criminal charges in the courts.



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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.

Promisor
One who makes a promise.

Promisory note
Contracts. A written promise to pay a certain sum of money, at a future time, unconditionally.

Promissory estoppel
A promise which estops the promisee from asserting or taking certain action.

Promissory note
An unconditional, written and signed promise to pay a certain amount of money, on demand or at a certain defined date in the future. Contrary to a bill of exchange, a promissory note is not drawn on any third party holding the payor's money; it is a direct promise from the payor to the payee.

Prompt payment discount
An incentive for early payment on a "Net Days" basis. For example, if company policy is to pay contractors on a "Net 90" basis, the company will pay within 30 days in return for a percentage discount, such as 2% of the total amount due.

Promulgation
The order given to cause a law to be executed, and to make it public it differs from publication.

Promutuum
civil law. A quasi contract, by which he who receives a certain sum of money, or a certain quantity of fungible things, which have been paid to him through mistake, contracts towards the payer the obligation of returning him as much.



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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.

Promisor
One who makes a promise.

Promisory note
Contracts. A written promise to pay a certain sum of money, at a future time, unconditionally.

Promissory estoppel
A promise which estops the promisee from asserting or taking certain action.

Promissory note
An unconditional, written and signed promise to pay a certain amount of money, on demand or at a certain defined date in the future. Contrary to a bill of exchange, a promissory note is not drawn on any third party holding the payor's money; it is a direct promise from the payor to the payee.

Promoters

Prompt payment discount
An incentive for early payment on a "Net Days" basis. For example, if company policy is to pay contractors on a "Net 90" basis, the company will pay within 30 days in return for a percentage discount, such as 2% of the total amount due.

Promulgation
The order given to cause a law to be executed, and to make it public it differs from publication.

Promutuum
civil law. A quasi contract, by which he who receives a certain sum of money, or a certain quantity of fungible things, which have been paid to him through mistake, contracts towards the payer the obligation of returning him as much.

Pronepos
Great Grandson.

Pronotary
An ancient word which signifies first notary. The same as prothonotary.

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